The Two Philosophies of Cost in Data Analytics There appears to be two philosophies today when it comes to managing costs in a modern data stack. We explore what they are.
Developing an Intuitive Understanding of the SaaS Quick Ratio An explanation of the SaaS Quick Ratio that focuses on the intuition behind the metric. Written with the data analyst in mind.
OLAP != OLAP Cube There's a tendency for people to conflate OLAP with OLAP cube. We take a quick look at how this happens, why it shouldn't, and why it matters if you're a data practitioner.
The Rise and Fall of the OLAP Cube A definitive history of the rise of the OLAP cube, how it's affected our industry, and what comes after.
How to Create Data Models from External Data Sources in Holistics In Holistics, you are now able to create data models on top of external data sources like MongoDB and Google Sheets. Here's a video tutorial on how to do exactly that.
Custom SQL with Tableau? No Problems Using custom SQL for your Tableau workbooks is usually a really bad idea. Here's how using Holistics with Tableau makes this a non-problem.
Effortless Materialized Views for Tableau with Holistics Tableau may be the best data visualizer on the planet today, but Holistics makes Tableau more awesome, by making data prep trivially easy.
Holistics — The Best Affordable Alternative to Looker Looker is among the most popular data analytics platforms on the market today. It has a unique approach to data modeling that …
What It's Like Being a Designer Intern at Holistics Creative designer intern Teo shares his experiences working at Holistics Indonesia.
Launch a Product to 200,000 Users with 0 Dollars Spent on Marketing Budget How we managed to launch a database designer to more than 100,000 users around the world without a budget.
Gartner's FrontRunners 2019 Lists Holistics As Top 2 Most Usable BI Tools Globally Holistics listed by Gartner's FrontRunners 2019 among the top 2 most Usable business intelligence tools globally, for the second consecutive year running.
Qualitative data-driven: How we boost team alignment and customer empathy by written communications At Holistics, we have the habit of noting down every interactions the team has with the market. Whether it's customer, prospect or …
