A blog about data, tools, and operating collaborative high performance cultures.
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
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.
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
Utilize metric trees to avoid the "too many/too few" debate.
Categorizing the three types of analysis all orgs need to execute
Modeling segments in a business semantic graph
A followup post diving deeper into a business semantic graph example.
It's time we embraced stronger modeling in the modern data stack.