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"Data-based: Going Beyond the Dataframe" video thumbnail

2025-11-20

Data-based: Going Beyond the Dataframe

Learn how to turbocharge your Python data work using DuckDB and MotherDuck with Pandas. We walk through performance comparisons, exploratory data analysis on bigger datasets, and an end-to-end ML feature engineering pipeline.

Webinar

Python

AI, ML and LLMs

"Empowering Data Teams: Smarter AI Workflows with Hex & MotherDuck" video thumbnail

2025-11-14

Empowering Data Teams: Smarter AI Workflows with Hex & MotherDuck

AI isn't here to replace data work, it's here to make it better. Watch this webinar to see how Hex and MotherDuck build AI workflows that prioritize context, iteration, and real-world impact.

Webinar

AI, ML and LLMs

"In the Long Run, Everything is a Fad" video thumbnail

2025-11-05

In the Long Run, Everything is a Fad

Benn Stancil uses Olympics gymnastics scoring to argue data's quantification obsession is generational. We went from vibes to math and may return to AI-powered vibes. Will dashboards matter to the next generation?

Talk

BI & Visualization

"Lies, Damn Lies, and Benchmarks" video thumbnail

2025-10-31

Lies, Damn Lies, and Benchmarks

Why do database benchmarks so often mislead? MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani discusses the pitfalls of performance benchmarking, lessons from BigQuery, and why your own workload is the only benchmark that truly matters.

Stream

Interview

"Duck Flavored BI: Building an Efficient Data Stack" video thumbnail

2025-10-29

Duck Flavored BI: Building an Efficient Data Stack

Temptation to over-engineer your data stack is everywhere. Watch MotherDuck and Tasman Analytics for the antidote: a practical discussion of why companies try to overbuild and what they can do to resist the temptation.

Webinar

"Boosting Data Performance: Unlocking the Power of DuckDB in your Gold Layer" video thumbnail

2025-10-27

Boosting Data Performance: Unlocking the Power of DuckDB in your Gold Layer

Watch this webinar with MotherDuck and Artefact for a discussion about how to achieve exceptional performance for gold layer analytics using DuckDB .

Webinar

"Beyond BI: Building Data Apps and Customer-Facing Analytics" video thumbnail

2025-10-15

Beyond BI: Building Data Apps and Customer-Facing Analytics

In this webinar, we compare classic BI dashboards with custom-built data apps built in Python and JavaScript. We'll also show how MotherDuck can power both data teams and software engineers to deliver analytics directly to users.

Webinar

"Simplifying the Transformation Layer" video thumbnail

2025-10-14

Simplifying the Transformation Layer

Explore the latest transformation layer architectures and real-world uses, plus how MotherDuck utilizes DuckDB for cloud-scale transformation.

Webinar

"From Raw Data to Insights with Datacoves & MotherDuck" video thumbnail

2025-09-25

From Raw Data to Insights with Datacoves & MotherDuck

In this webinar, we show how Datacoves and MotherDuck make it possible to connect directly to S3, build dbt models in DuckLake, and visualize the results without the heavy lift of traditional data stacks.

Webinar

dbt

"From Curiosity to Impact  How DoSomething Democratized Data" video thumbnail

2025-09-10

From Curiosity to Impact How DoSomething Democratized Data

​Hear how DoSomething's data team escaped the enterprise data trap, achieving 20X cost reduction and transforming hours-long queries into seconds with MotherDuck.

YouTube

"How to Efficiently Load Data into DuckLake with Estuary" video thumbnail

2025-07-26

How to Efficiently Load Data into DuckLake with Estuary

Learn how DuckLake, MotherDuck, and Estuary enable fast, real-time data integration and analytics with modern open table formats, cloud data warehousing, and no-code streaming pipelines.

YouTube

"Why Your Postgres Analytics Are So Slow (And 3 Ways to Fix It)" video thumbnail

2025-07-17

Why Your Postgres Analytics Are So Slow (And 3 Ways to Fix It)

Struggling with slow PostgreSQL analytics queries? @mehdio shows 3 proven methods to supercharge performance using DuckDB and MotherDuck. Perfect for GROUP BY aggregations taking 30+ seconds.

YouTube