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

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 key differences between metric catalogs, layers and trees

Addressing the needs for the two distinct personas who consume data

Modeling metrics in the next frontier to streamline data consumption

Arguing why the future of analytics is a metrics-first operating system

Examining analytics workflows as an assembly line process

Using concrete examples to illustrate the power of metric trees

Diving into the unique challenges with modeling process grains.

Diving into the 3 types of grains that permeate business metrics.

Looking at true organizational needs for a metrics layer solution

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

"Metrics bloat" is a common challenge to doing effective business reviews
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Metrics or semantic layers can do much more than metrics governance.

Taking a look at how analytics can power planning processes

Examining how dashboards only address one of many data needs.
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An examination of "metrics layers" two years in - after the early buzz

Exploring the power of metric equations with a simple example

Sharing a common "mixshift" analysis pattern for a key metric of interest