Boise dbt Meetup (online)

Join us for the August Boise dbt Meetup! This meetup with cover creating Snowflake Snowpipes and External Tables via dbt, as well as dbt Testing / Data Quality features. Analytics Engineers, Data Engineers, Data Warehouse Developers, Data Modelers, or any data wranglers are welcome...

dbt Meetups are networking events open to all folks working with data! Talks predominantly focus on community members' experience with dbt, however, you'll catch presentations on broader topics such as analytics engineering, data stacks, data ops, modeling, testing, and team structures. dbt is an open source data transformation tool that enables data analysts and engineers to transform, test and document data in the cloud data warehouse. You can learn more about the tool here: https://www.getdbt.com/product/what-is-dbt/

✨We're excited to host our first dbt Meetup in Boise!✨

➡️ Join the dbt Slack community:
https://www.getdbt.com/community/
🤝🏽 Be part of the conversation in the #local-idaho channel in dbt Slack! This is where the chat will also take place during meetups.

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🎤Host: Mike Planting, Senior Data Engineer, Clickfunnels.com

✨ Speaker Lineup✨
🗣 Mike Planting, Senior Data Engineer, [Clickfunnels.com](http://clickfunnels.com/)
🗣 Taylor Petersen, Analytics Engineer, Fluensight

✅ Agenda
12:00 - Welcome and Introductions
12:05 - Mike Planting - Leveraging dbt to create Snowflake Snowpipes and External Tables over AWS S3 files
12:25 Q&A with Mike Planting
12:30 - Taylor Petersen - dbt Data Quality Testing - 4 types of generics test and when to use singular tests
12:50 - Q&A
12:55 - Closing Remarks & call for subsequent speakers
1:05 - Post session chat and networking…

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Subsequent meetings will cover dbt best practices, deep dives into key features, community member presentations, lessons learned, etc. Please message Mike Planting on Linkedin or dbt Slack if you are interested in speaking at a future event.

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dbt is a an open source command-line tool that speaks the preferred language of data analysts everywhere—SQL. With dbt, analysts take ownership of the entire analytics engineering workflow, from writing data transformation code to deployment and documentation.
Learn more: https://www.getdbt.com/