A blog about data, tools, and operating collaborative high performance cultures.

Looking a bit beyond the smart-sounding buzzwords

Making the case that the concept of cubes is alive, well and more important than ever.

Metric trees are not visuals but deep, rich computable data models.

Diving deep into a common and tedious analysis, and the power of automating it

It's not productive for business reviews to be driven by a collection of dashboards

Examining a touchy subject - do we truly need data analysts?

Exploring how constraints are shifting within data platforms as we make progress

Examining issues that arise from metrics-driven cultures and possible remediations

Arguing that metric cubes help with performant data products and UX

The data domain is shaped by personas with differing skills and needs

The key differences between strong and weak data and finance team cultures

Examining how metric trees enable a new a world of automation