In the last five years, dbt has emerged as an essential part of how data modeling work gets done. While data modeling is a critical part of an effective data practice, it’s not the whole story.
In this talk, Drew will share a vision of the future of analytics, dbt’s role in it, and his thoughts on how we’ll get there. Catch all of Coalesce 2021, the analytics engineering conference, at
00:00 Keynote: The Metric System
02:27 Measuring things
04:08 Measuring things: feet
05:02 Measuring things: pounds
06:37 Measuring things: tons
08:39 Measurements are relative
10:31 The Elightenment
12:58 Towards Standardization
16:02 The metric system
21:06 Standardizing data
23:14 Metrics at work
23:38 Needs around standardization
24:14 The metrics layer
29:11 Today’s artchitecture
31:41 The dbt server
33:47 In the future
37:51 Timeline