Mark Needham

Mark Needham

Mark is a product marketing engineer at ClickHouse, where he creates short-form videos and writes blog posts about real-time data warehouses. He also works on developer experience, simplifying the getting-started experience by making product tweaks and improvements to the documentation.

Mark has worked in the data infrastructure field for the last decade, first at Neo4j on graph databases and then at StarTree on real-time analytics with Apache Pinot. He has been blogging about his experiences with writing software for the last 15 years at markhneedham.com and has created many short educational videos on data and AI topics at https://www.youtube.com/@learndatawithmark.

He tweets as @markhneedham.

books by Mark Needham

DuckDB in Action
  • July 2024
  • ISBN 9781633437258
  • 312 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / Software Development / Databases / Database Platforms / Analytical Databases

DuckDB in Action guides you example-by-example from setup, through your first SQL query, to advanced topics like building data pipelines and embedding DuckDB as a local data store for a Streamlit web app. You’ll explore DuckDB’s handy SQL extensions, get to grips with aggregation, analysis, and data without persistence, and use Python to customize DuckDB. A hands-on project accompanies each new topic, so you can see DuckDB in action.