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Jan 21, 2025
Data as a "Digital Twin" of the Business

How metric trees can map a digital twin of the business process

Vijay Subramanian
Dec 23, 2024
Software vs Analytics Development Lifecycle

Examining the differences between software and analytics development

Vijay Subramanian
Dec 12, 2024
Next Frontier in Data Modeling

Modeling metrics in the next frontier to streamline data consumption

Vijay Subramanian
Nov 29, 2024
Automating a Data Analyst = Achieving AGI?

Exploring if truly automating analysis is akin to achieving AGI

Vijay Subramanian
Sep 30, 2024
Advancing Data Consumption vs Production

Exploiting the recent advances in data production to drive consumption

Vijay Subramanian
Sep 17, 2024
Can Analytics Work Be Assembly-Lined?

Examining analytics workflows as an assembly line process

Vijay Subramanian
Sep 5, 2024
Metric Trees By Any Other Name?

A short post on inter-related concepts to metric trees

Vijay Subramanian
Jun 27, 2024
Jevon's Paradox in Data

Examining Jevon's Paradox in the data domain, and how to resolve moving forward.

Vijay Subramanian
May 15, 2024
Metrics/Semantic Layers - To Be or Not To Be?

Looking at true organizational needs for a metrics layer solution

Vijay Subramanian
Apr 22, 2024
The Four Levels of Business Reviews

Examining the 4 "levels" at which business reviews are executed

Vijay Subramanian
Mar 2, 2024
Finance Teams were the Original Data Pioneers

Exploring how to further empower the OG data folks, the finance team.

Vijay Subramanian
Nov 14, 2023
Benefits of Metrics and Semantic Layers

Metrics or semantic layers can do much more than metrics governance.

Vijay Subramanian
Sep 28, 2023
Analytics: from Service to Product Mindset

Data-as-a-Product mindset can transform the analytics function

Vijay Subramanian
Sep 12, 2023
The Increasingly Limited Role of Dashboards

Examining how dashboards only address one of many data needs.

Vijay Subramanian
Aug 15, 2023
Kimball's Modeling Approach: A Few Drawbacks

Investigating a few drawbacks to Kimball's modeling approach

Vijay Subramanian
Aug 10, 2023
The Lasting Power of Kimball's Modeling Approach

A look at the lasting power of Kimball's dimensional modeling approach

Vijay Subramanian
Aug 1, 2023
Metrics Layer: 2 Years In

An examination of "metrics layers" two years in - after the early buzz

Vijay Subramanian
Apr 11, 2023
Just ask the AI bot any question!

Somewhat skeptical this is a radical, fundamental change

Vijay Subramanian
Feb 15, 2023
The Perennial Tension: Governance vs Flexibility

The tension between governed data and consumer flexibility.

Vijay Subramanian