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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 04/05/2026

ICYMI - @ssp.sh's latest blog looks at how BI evolved, how dashboards are actually used today, and what survives when AI enters the picture — starting with the foundation that was never really about dashboards in the first place, and ending with the problem nobody of who maintains it all.

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 01/05/2026

What a great week at POSSIBLE. We met with folks managing massive data stacks at scale. With Rill, our customers can talk to their data using AI agents & get trusted, verifiable business insights in mins. If you missed us in Miami, you can catch us at MAU in Vegas. www.rilldata.com/events/mau-2...

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 28/04/2026

Check out the latest version of Rill (0.86). It's packed with two new live connectors for #BigQuery and #DuckLake. Rill now ships a DuckLake live connector, letting you attach a DuckLake catalog and query it directly as an OLAP source for metrics views and dashboards. docs.rilldata.com/notes/0.86

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 27/04/2026

If you’re at #POSSIBLE in Miami, come say hi to @medriscoll.com and the Rill team 👋 (North Tropez Lawn #646). The future of analytics isn’t better dashboards. It’s interactive, real-time answers on top of governed metrics. Let's meet up and geek out about the technology side of #adtech!

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 21/04/2026

Traditional BI tools often treat heavy queries as something to be avoided, relying on caching to keep dashboards responsive. "But when you're using something like @clickhouse.com, there's no need to avoid hitting the dashboard hundreds or thousands of times." - said @medriscoll.com

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 20/04/2026

Modern BI is evolving fast — and the combination of Rill Data + Google Antigravity shows exactly where it’s headed. In this walkthrough, we explore how developers and data teams can use AI agents to build, modify, and scale analytics workflows entirely in code. www.rilldata.com/blog/video-b...

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 17/04/2026

@medriscoll.com remembers walking down 24th Street in SF and Lukas Biewald turned to him and said: "AI is all that matters. Like, it's all that matters, man." In this episode, he traces the full arc: from an unpaid internship at OpenAI to what he thinks comes next. www.rilldata.com/blog/how-the...

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 13/04/2026

Rill users are data engineers, analytics engineers, BI developers, and platform teams — all building data pipelines, defining metrics, and delivering interactive dashboards with Rill. In Rill 0.85, we improved the first mile experience to make getting started with Rill smooth! docs.rilldata.com

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 10/04/2026

How easy is it to answer a question like “what is the best performing campaign?” Rill can get that answer in seconds where other tools might take hours to get to that root cause analysis. We’ll be at POSSIBLE and we’d love to show you the platform in action. www.rilldata.com/events/possi...

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 09/04/2026

Check out what's new in Rill 0.85: ✅ Snowflake live connector - now you can create metrics views directly on Snowflake ✅ Preview mode for Rill Developer - review your dashboards locally before deploying, providing a faster feedback loop during development Learn more: docs.rilldata.com/notes/0.85

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 06/04/2026

Rill will be at #GoogleNext. Agentic business intelligence continues to be our top focus. Using Gemini's CLI + Rill’s MCP you can explore metrics, identify trends, and generate insights without writing queries manually. If you want to see a demo, let’s meet up. geminicli.com/extensions/?...

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 01/04/2026

"We couldn't get people to use it for free, and people openly mocked it," said Lukas Biewald about what would become a $1.7B business, @weightsbiases.bsky.social In the latest episode of Data Talks on the Rocks, Mike talks with Lukas about his journey building one of the seminal startups in AI.

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 26/03/2026

In the latest release of Rill 0.84, we provide an interactive "rill init" command by default, guiding you through project setup step by step. Also, now you can share Canvas dashboard views with external stakeholders without requiring them to log in. Full release notes docs.rilldata.com/notes/0.84

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 23/03/2026

Salomon from Drio Tech prompted Claude to "create a PowerPoint presentation with an executive summary of our internal sales data for today's board meeting". The entire process took just minutes & every number in the presentation was correct. Full blog & video demo: www.driotech.io/post/agentic...

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 23/03/2026

In this video, @jonwalls.dev walks through how Rill enables a fully agentic BI workflow using tools like Cursor, local development environments, and modern CI/CD practices — all while delivering instant, production-ready insights.

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 17/03/2026

Ghanshyam Chodavadiya from SWYM shares why they use Rill with MotherDuck. "Rill lets us encode business context directly into our BI layer. Combined w/ MotherDuck & the Rill MCP client, it gives us flexible data control while powering automatically generated client dashboards & AI-driven insights."

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 12/03/2026

In the latest Rill 0.83 release, now you can generate a full Canvas dashboard directly from an existing metrics view. We also added a new connector for @supabase.com and updated the project status pages making it easier to start exploring your data in Rill. docs.rilldata.com/notes/0.83

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 10/03/2026

Guess who loves local-first, code-first analytics tools? 🤖 Claude Code. Claude + Rill can now build a full data stack in seconds – pipelines, database, and dashboards visualizing millions of records – with BI-as-code, on a single machine. Learn more: www.rilldata.com/blog/buildin...

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 06/03/2026

Rill’s GTM team is growing 🚀 Jay Stevens is our new CRO. Jay has earned a reputation as a commercial leader who transforms businesses of all sizes for growth. Devan Kane joins Rill as Fractional CMO, reuniting with Mike Driscoll to help spearhead the company’s growth strategy.

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 27/02/2026

The Rill GTM team got together in Park City to strategize for 2026! 🚀 We reviewed the product roadmap and had meaningful conversations on how Rill can really make an impact for our customers. And we had some fun too 🥳 PS - we’re hiring! Join us in building the world’s fastest AI-native BI tool!

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 25/02/2026

Check out what's new in Rill 0.82: 👍👎 AI feedback - give thumbs up or thumbs down to score your conversations with Rill's AI agent ℹ️ New status project page - we overhauled the status page so you can easily search, filter & find resources 🎨 New in Canvas dashboards - AI functionality & scatter plots

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 23/02/2026

ICYMI the latest Data Talks on the Rocks episode - Wes McKinney, creator of Pandas, explains his unexpected switch from Python to Go for new projects. His reason: AI coding agents fundamentally changed the trade-offs that made Python dominant for the last 15 years. Learn more datatalks.rilldata.com

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 18/02/2026

Our friends at Twing Data built a lightweight dashboard for AWS cost monitoring using Rill for AWS CUR data. A few key Rill features do most of the heavy lifting: 1. Automatic ingestion from S3: 2. Partition-aware updates: 3. ClickHouse under the hood Learn more: blog.twingdata.com/p/aws-cost-m...

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 13/02/2026

ICYMI - on a recent Joe Reis podcast, Mike Driscoll shares insights on the "shape" of analytics, debating whether conversational interfaces will replace dashboards or simply complement them. Links below: YouTube - www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEIQ... Spotify - creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 12/02/2026

Are LLMs really a breakthrough? Wes McKinney says he didn’t see it at first. Now he says if your code isn’t automatically reviewed by adversarial agents, you’re doomed. In the latest episode of Data Talks on the Rocks, Mike and Wes talk about how AI is transforming the way he builds software.

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 11/02/2026

Many users have requested the ability to share AI conversations with others. With Rill 0.81, now you can send a secure link and other users can see exactly what you saw and pick up where you left off. We've also added support for Claude as your preferred AI provider. docs.rilldata.com/notes/0.81

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 04/02/2026

.@medriscoll.com was on The Joe Reis podcast to discuss the evolving landscape of business intelligence and data engineering. They explore why the industry keeps "rediscovering" old concepts like the semantic layer and how the rise of AI agents is forcing us to rethink how we structure data.

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 03/02/2026

Our friends at Twing Data set out to build something simple: point a dashboard at S3, automatically ingest AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) files, and instantly get a useful set of dashboards. The whole thing is open source. Post: blog.twingdata.com/p/aws-cost-m... Repo: github.com/Twing-Data/a...

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 02/02/2026

Another big feature in Rill 0.80 is the AI Developer Agent in Rill Developer 🪄 The AI agent is your developer assistant, helping you model data, create and edit Rill project files, and build Rill projects. Give it a try and let us know your experiences! Learn more: docs.rilldata.com/notes/0.80

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 30/01/2026

Thanks to the ~50 founders and execs who gathered last night for a live reading and candid Q&A of Ari Paparo’s book on Google. It was great to hear insights directly from folks who know how modern advertising really works. aripaparo.com/yield-the-book

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 28/01/2026

Head to the docs to learn more: docs.rilldata.com/notes/0.80

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 28/01/2026

In the latest Rill 0.80 release, we introduce dark mode to the entire product. We first launched dark mode in Rill Developer a few months ago, but now you can easily switch between light & dark mode everywhere! PS - if you are embedding Rill you can toggle dark mode on/off as part of the Embed API.

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 21/01/2026

"I'm a ClickHouse user & a really bad user. I notice when anything is slightly not right." - Alexey Milovidov His lesson: "It's not about technology. It's about attention to details." If something annoys you, it's annoying thousands of users. Fix it. TLDR: Build what you'd actually want to use.

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 16/01/2026

Top Takeaways: - The fatal flaw most semantic layers miss: treating it as a UI problem instead of a developer tools problem - How Malloy preserves data as graphs instead of flattening to rectangles - Why data stacks will stay bespoke: privacy, access control, and the myth of one-size-fits-all

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 15/01/2026

ICYMI - we've added support for @starrocks.bsky.social. Connect directly to your StarRocks and query data in real-time without ingesting it into Rill first. This expands our support for enterprise data warehouses alongside ClickHouse, Druid, & Pinot. A big thank you to our community contributor!

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 14/01/2026

Check out the new features in Rill 0.79: ✅ Comparison views to spot trends in Canvas charts ✅ Support for geospatial dimensions (mapping and regional analysis) ✅ StarRocks live connector ✅ New CLI command allows you to validate a project ✅ Metrics SQL enhancements docs.rilldata.com/notes/0.79

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 08/01/2026

"Data's such a bespoke art. Every company I've worked with has a completely different data stack; all assembling from whatever cloth we have." To kick off 2026, check out our updated episode with @lloydtabb.bsky.social. Lloyd's insight goes deeper than infrastructure chaos. datatalks.rilldata.com

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 05/01/2026

What makes Rill's AI agent different? The most powerful feature of our AI Chat is its transparency, and we also designed it to be pluggable. When the AI answers your question, it automatically generates links to your dashboards, allowing you to see exactly where the numbers came from.

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 22/12/2025

In Rill 0.78 (the final release of 2025), we introduce dynamic content in Markdown components. Want to take it even further? You can render HTML too! Plus, we're making the backend endpoint public so you can easily build your own programs and workflows that need access to templated data.

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 19/12/2025

“Sometimes the best reward isn't money. It's watching the giants scramble to copy your stupid SQL feature." - Hannes Mühleisen, DuckDB In the updated episode, we discussed: → Why they worked in secret for a year → Why 99% of analytics workloads don't need distributed systems datatalks.rilldata.com

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 18/12/2025

At a recent @clickhouse.com meetup in SF, @medriscoll.com shared the importance of FinOps. His demo shows how in just a few minutes you can connect to a ClickHouse table, automatically generate a dashboard, and slice & dice to see how much you’re spending on tools. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejOK...

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 17/12/2025

We’re excited to share the Gemini CLI extension for Rill 🎉 Now you can instantly dive deep into analysis using Rill's metrics layer via MCP. Using Gemini's CLI and the Model Context Protocol (MCP), you can explore metrics, identify trends, and generate insights without writing queries manually.

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 16/12/2025

"If it doesn't scale out, it's useless." Database reviewers dismissed @duckdb.org's approach with comments like this. 6 years later: 1M+ monthly users, 10x faster than Spark on the same hardware. We updated our DTTR episodes. Watch the full talk with @hannes.muehleisen.org datatalks.rilldata.com

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 15/12/2025

#CES is about exploring the future of technology. Rill is the world's first AI-native business intelligence tool. Organizations like Comcast, DishTV, and Bloomberg use our real-time analytics to optimize digital advertising, understand product usage & monitor cybersecurity events at massive scale.

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 12/12/2025

ICYMI - Matthaus Krzykowski (CEO of dltHub) joined Michael Driscoll to break down the biggest shifts happening in data engineering right now. 👉Subscribe for more conversations with the builders shaping the future of data. datatalks.rilldata.com

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 09/12/2025

@medriscoll.com joined Katrin Ribant on Knowledge Distillation. The episode offers a forward-looking view on the “AI analyst” skill set & the future of self-serve analytics. "Data engineering is critical because we have the opportunity to have the one human data team." ask-y.ai/knowledge-di...

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 08/12/2025

Also in Rill 0.77, now you can highlight a time range in a dashboard and have the AI explain anomalies. This is useful to quickly gain insights for drops or increases in metrics and get a detailed summary as to why a metric is moving in a certain direction. Learn more: docs.rilldata.com/notes/0.77

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 05/12/2025

In Rill .77, we added a dependency graph viewer that allows you to easily visualize the dependencies within a project to see how changes to a model could affect downstream metrics. We also added the ability to generate test data using AI. This is super useful to get up & running in Rill Developer.

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 03/12/2025

Code-first data tools were built for experts. Then AI made them accessible to everyone. On the new episode of Data Talks on the Rocks, @medriscoll.com and dltHub's Matthaus Krzykowski break down the shift: LLMs are abstracting away complexity in data pipeline building, and the results are dramatic.

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Rill Data @rilldata.com · 01/12/2025

What makes this project from @ssp.sh worthwhile is the end result: a clear overview of your actual costs across clouds. Everything is made composable, meaning you can add extra extraction with dlt or query and visualize additional data with Rill without spinning up infrastructure.

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