A blog about data, tools, and operating collaborative high performance cultures.
Analytics needs a mix of scientific processes and engineering tools
Exploiting the recent advances in data production to drive consumption
Examining analytics workflows as an assembly line process
Diving into the unique challenges with modeling process grains.
Diving into the 3 types of grains that permeate business metrics.
The powerful loop is action yielding insights driving more action.
Examining the 4 "levels" at which business reviews are executed
"Metrics bloat" is a common challenge to doing effective business reviews
Diving into React, Explore and Plan - three analytical jobs-to-be-done
Taking a look at how analytics can power planning processes
Data-as-a-Product mindset can transform the analytics function
Examining how dashboards only address one of many data needs.
Exploring the power of metric equations with a simple example
Sharing a common "mixshift" analysis pattern for a key metric of interest
How metric trees enable root causing, save time and generate $$$
Using metric trees and segments can level up business reviews
Fewer dashboards, more metric analytics please!
Analysts are our unsung heroes, and why we need to empower them