Agile Data Warehouse Design is a 2011 attempt at applying the principles of agile to the practice of data modeling. This is the first post in a series on the ideas from the book.
Goodhart's law says that 'when a measure becomes a target, it fails to become a good measure. Here are four ways that occurs.
A short story about SQL's better rival: Michael Stonebraker's storied query language, QUEL.
Stuck at home during the pandemic? We give you Holistics's top five data books to read in 2020.
Why does data analytics and business intelligence lag behind the best practices and tooling of software? Two anecdotes and a theory.
What we can learn from Softwar, a book about Larry Ellison's attempt to take over the enterprise software world.
What intermix.io's forced acquisition tells us about the two philosophies of cost in data analytics.
A look into metadata hubs, which might just be the hottest category of data tools of the past two years.
We take a look at the business fundamentals of the operations stage — the last of three stages in a company's life.