A concise tour of one of the basic components of Kimball dimensional data modeling. We explore the three types of fact tables, and then analyze why they have lasted the test of time.
Are dashboards really 'dead'? A response to a vendor trend that seems rather premature.
Treating your dashboards like a product means thinking about ALL of your user's needs — rational or otherwise.
Building a career in data often means building a career in a business cost center. This isn't necessarily bad. Here's how to think about it.
The definitive explainer for OLAP cubes, where we cover every single possible definition for the phrase.
Ralph Kimball's classic book The Data Warehouse Toolkit introduce the world to the practice of data modeling. Here's how to read it in 2022.
A hack for when you don't understand data jargon.
We take a look at an exhaustive list of reasons people give when they want to ignore anomalous data.
The origins and intuition behind a famous SaaS business metric.