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

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

Distinguishing AI functioning as a "reporter" vs a true analyst

How metric tree enable alignment across the organization

Exploring how AI can be effective in RDA vs EDA