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Feb 13
YouTube, MCP, AI, ML and LLMs

MCP: Understand It, Set It Up, Use It

Learn what MCP (Model Context Protocol) is, how its three building blocks work, and how to set up remote and local MCP servers. Includes a real demo chaining MotherDuck and Notion MCP servers in a single prompt.

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"Behind the Agent: How Hazel Built an AI Coworker for Consumer Brands" video thumbnail

51:02

How Hazel Built an AI Coworker

Oct 21, 2026 • Alex Monahan

Patrik Devlin, co-founder and CTO of Hazel, joins host Alex Monahan to show Hazel in a demo account and walk through the stack behind it: Fivetran and dlt into S3, dbt in MotherDuck, and a separate database for every customer.

Stream

MotherDuck Features

AI, ML and LLMs

Data Pipelines

"Aligned on Numbers: How Our Chief of Staff Builds Internal Data Apps with Agents at MotherDuck" video thumbnail

44:21

Aligned on Numbers: A Chief of Staff's Data Apps

Oct 15, 2026 • Kaitlyn Henry

Zoey Weaver interviews Kaitlyn Henry, MotherDuck's Chief of Staff, as she walks through two internal data apps: an AI token spend tracker built on a Flight and a weekly business review Dive. She explains how Guides, markdown files that define the company's key metrics, keep everyone's numbers consistent.

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MotherDuck Features

AI, ML and LLMs

"Jev for Analytics: 5 Use Cases on Real Data" video thumbnail

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Jev for Analytics: 5 Use Cases

Oct 8, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza

Mehdi Ouazza uses MotherDuck's prompt_jev() to turn text columns into columns you can GROUP BY. He classifies 100,000 consumer complaints, then walks through five use cases on real data: AI agent logs, Hacker News sentiment, sales calls, and two kinds of job-ad analysis.

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MotherDuck Features

AI, ML and LLMs

"Virtual Workshop: Build a Data Agent in 60 Minutes" video thumbnail

51:58

Build a Data Agent in 60 Minutes

Oct 1, 2026 • Jacob Matson

Jacob Matson walks through a working data chat agent he built: MCP tools, an agentic loop, a tuned system prompt, hard-coded read-only guardrails, and telemetry. He demos it live against a real dataset, walks through the actual codebase, then shows the same backend re-platformed into a Slack bot.

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MotherDuck Features

AI, ML and LLMs

Data Pipelines

"We Classified 100,000 Rows in 40 Seconds: Introducing prompt_jev()" video thumbnail

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prompt_jev(): SQL-Native Text Classification

Sep 29, 2026 • Hamilton Ulmer, Dumky de Wilde, Jacob Matson

MotherDuck's new prompt_jev() function runs text classification directly from SQL using Jev, a decision-focused model from typesafe.ai. In a live demo, Jacob Matson, Dumky de Wilde, and Hamilton Ulmer showed it filtering, disambiguating, and re-ranking real data without leaving SQL. The number they kept coming back to: 100,000 rows classified at 89% accuracy in 40 seconds, compared to 32 minutes and $37.58 for a comparable LLM call.

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MotherDuck Features

AI, ML and LLMs

Data Pipelines

"Do AI Agents Need a Semantic Layer?" video thumbnail

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Do AI Agents Need a Semantic Layer?

Aug 26, 2026 • Alex Monahan, Jacob Matson

Do AI agents need a semantic layer? Evals comparing plain-text context with a Malloy semantic layer show where each wins, and what it costs.

Stream

AI, ML and LLMs

BI & Visualization

SQL

"Trust the agents you build on your data" video thumbnail

52:23

Trust the agents you build on your data

Aug 12, 2026 • Jacob Matson

Learn how to evaluate AI agents that query your data: run text-to-SQL evals with Braintrust and MotherDuck, read traces, and fix failures with context.

Webinar

AI, ML and LLMs

SQL

Ecosystem

"BI Is Having a Midlife Crisis" video thumbnail

1:00:37

BI Is Having a Midlife Crisis

Jul 28, 2026 • Jacob Matson, Ryan Dolley

Jacob Matson and BI analyst Ryan Dolley on whether AI can replace your BI tool, what it actually solves, and what still needs governance.

Interview

BI & Visualization

AI, ML and LLMs

"Writing robust data pipelines with AI" video thumbnail

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Writing robust data pipelines with AI

Jul 22, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza

AI writes data pipelines in seconds, but green isn't correct. Build robust data pipelines with AI: eyes on data, foundations, tests, and contracts.

Webinar

Data Pipelines

AI, ML and LLMs

MotherDuck Features

"What Makes a Great Data Viz? DiveMaxxing Winners Revealed" video thumbnail

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What Makes a Great Data Viz? DiveMaxxing Winners Revealed

Jun 24, 2026 • Hamilton Ulmer, Brittany Rosenau, Zack Mazzoncini, Jacob Matson

What makes a great data visualization in the AI era? Three viz experts judge the DiveMaxxing winners and break down what separates great from busy.

Webinar

BI & Visualization

AI, ML and LLMs

"From Source to Dashboard: Real Pipelines with Flights" video thumbnail

36:45

From Source to Dashboard: Real Pipelines with Flights

Jun 23, 2026 • Jacob Matson

Watch an AI agent build a data pipeline end to end in MotherDuck Flights: ingest, transform, and schedule it, then wire it into a live Dive dashboard.

Webinar

AI, ML and LLMs

Data Pipelines

MotherDuck Features

BI & Visualization

"DuckDB's agent moment (Jordan Tigani)" video thumbnail

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DuckDB's agent moment (Jordan Tigani)

Jun 18, 2026 • Jordan Tigani

Jordan Tigani helped build BigQuery, then left to bet that most data isn't actually big. Three years later, the agent era is making his case for him. In this conversation on The Analytics Engineering Podcast, he and host Tristan Handy talk about how MotherDuck and DuckDB fit together, why a single-node database makes more sense than you'd think for agents, and what it would actually look like to have a swarm of agents managing your data.

YouTube

AI, ML and LLMs

Interview

"Data Engineering Is AI Engineering" video thumbnail

47:05

Data Engineering Is AI Engineering

May 26, 2026 • Jacob Matson

Jacob Matson refactors a real NBA app with AI agent teams, revealing how data engineering patterns like DAGs and wave planning map directly to agent orchestration.

Webinar

AI, ML and LLMs

Data Pipelines

"Agents That Build Tables, Not Just Query Them" video thumbnail

38:23

Agents That Build Tables, Not Just Query Them

Mar 17, 2026 • Jerel Navarrete, Jacob Matson

See how MotherDuck's new query_rw MCP tool lets AI agents write back to your data warehouse, creating tables, storing embeddings, and saving views.

Stream

AI, ML and LLMs

MotherDuck Features

SQL

"Building an Analytics Chatbot for your SaaS app in 1 day" video thumbnail

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Building an Analytics Chatbot for your SaaS app in 1 day

Mar 11, 2026 • Ryan Boyd, Jerel Navarrete, Jacob Matson

Learn how to build a conversational AI chatbot for your SaaS product using the MotherDuck MCP server, with scoped data access and streaming responses.

Webinar

AI, ML and LLMs

Tutorial

MotherDuck Features

" Preparing Your Data Warehouse for AI: Let Your Agents Cook" video thumbnail

Preparing Your Data Warehouse for AI: Let Your Agents Cook

Jan 27, 2026 • Jerel Navarrete, Jacob Matson

Jacob and Jerel from MotherDuck showcase practical ways to optimize your data warehouse for AI-powered SQL generation. Through rigorous testing with the Bird benchmark, they demonstrate that text-to-SQL accuracy can jump from 30% to 74% by enriching your database with the right metadata.

AI, ML and LLMs

SQL

MotherDuck Features

Stream

Tutorial

"No More Writing SQL for Quick Analysis" video thumbnail

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No More Writing SQL for Quick Analysis

Jan 21, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza

Learn how to use the MotherDuck MCP server with Claude to analyze data using natural language—no SQL required. This text-to-SQL tutorial shows how AI data analysis works with the Model Context Protocol (MCP), letting you query databases, Parquet files on S3, and even public APIs just by asking questions in plain English.

YouTube

Tutorial

AI, ML and LLMs

"The MCP Sessions - Vol 2: Supply Chain Analytics" video thumbnail

The MCP Sessions - Vol 2: Supply Chain Analytics

Jan 21, 2026 • Jacob Matson, Alex Monahan

Jacob and Alex from MotherDuck query data using the MotherDuck MCP. Watch as they analyze 180,000 rows of shipment data through conversational AI, uncovering late delivery patterns, profitability insights, and operational trends with no SQL required!

Stream

AI, ML and LLMs

MotherDuck Features

SQL

BI & Visualization

Tutorial

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Reliable AI Agents for Business Analytics

Jan 16, 2026 • Ryan Boyd

MotherDuck cofounder Ryan Boyd demonstrates how to close the LLM accuracy gap for business analytics using MotherDuck's MCP server, semantic modeling, and hyper-tenancy architecture for AI agents.

AI, ML and LLMs

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The MCP Sessions Vol. 1: Sports Analytics

Jan 13, 2026 • Jacob Matson, Logan Toskey

Watch us dive into NFL playoff odds and PGA Tour stats using using MotherDuck's MCP server with Claude. See how to analyze data, build visualizations, and iterate on insights in real-time using natural language queries and DuckDB.

AI, ML and LLMs

SQL

MotherDuck Features

Tutorial

BI & Visualization

Ecosystem

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Data-based: Going Beyond the Dataframe

Nov 20, 2025 • Jacob Matson

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

"LLMs Meet Data Warehouses: Reliable AI Agents for Business Analytics" video thumbnail

LLMs Meet Data Warehouses: Reliable AI Agents for Business Analytics

Nov 19, 2025 • Ryan Boyd

LLMs excel at natural language understanding but struggle with factual accuracy when aggregating business data. Ryan Boyd explores the architectural patterns needed to make LLMs work effectively alongside analytics databases.

AI, ML and LLMs

MotherDuck Features

SQL

Talk

Python

BI & Visualization