A blog about data, tools, and operating collaborative high performance cultures.
Exploiting the recent advances in data production to drive consumption
Examining analytics workflows as an assembly line process
A short post on inter-related concepts to metric trees
Examining Jevon's Paradox in the data domain, and how to resolve moving forward.
Looking at true organizational needs for a metrics layer solution
Examining the 4 "levels" at which business reviews are executed
Exploring how to further empower the OG data folks, the finance team.
Could "metric graphs" enable data consumers?
Metrics or semantic layers can do much more than metrics governance.
Data-as-a-Product mindset can transform the analytics function
Examining how dashboards only address one of many data needs.
Investigating a few drawbacks to Kimball's modeling approach
A look at the lasting power of Kimball's dimensional modeling approach
An examination of "metrics layers" two years in - after the early buzz
Somewhat skeptical this is a radical, fundamental change
The tension between governed data and consumer flexibility.
Categorizing the three types of analysis all orgs need to execute
Taking chatGPT for a quick spin to see if it can role play as a data analyst!
Why dashboards are the default vs self-serve analytics