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Cedric Chin

Cedric Chin

Staff writer at Holistics. Enjoys Python, coffee, green tea, and cats. I'd love to talk to you about the future of business intelligence!

Saigon & Singapore •
58 posts •
Business Intelligence

Why is Data Analytics So Far Behind Software Engineering?

Why does data analytics and business intelligence lag behind the best practices and tooling of software? Two anecdotes and a theory.

Business Intelligence

Data Careers: Dealing With Being in a Cost Center

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.

Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence Lessons from Softwar: A Portrait of Larry Ellison And Oracle

What we can learn from Softwar, a book about Larry Ellison's attempt to take over the enterprise software world.

Business Intelligence

Redshift, Snowflake, and the Two Philosophies of Cost

What intermix.io's forced acquisition tells us about the two philosophies of cost in data analytics.

Business Intelligence

A Dive Into Metadata Hubs

A look into metadata hubs, which might just be the hottest category of data tools of the past two years.

Business Intelligence

Measuring a Company When a Company Is Mature

We take a look at the business fundamentals of the operations stage — the last of three stages in a company's life.

Business Intelligence

Death to Dashboards, Really?

Are dashboards really 'dead'? A response to a vendor trend that seems rather premature.

Business Intelligence

Understanding the Scale Stage

The scale stage is the second of three stages in a startup's life. In this post, we discuss what product-market fit means, and then we look at healthy growth (the kind that leads to winning) and unhealthy growth (the kind that leads to company death).

Business Intelligence

Measurement Before Product Market Fit

A startup's first job is to create a customer. We take a closer look at how that affects the metrics you measure at the product stage of a startup's lifecycle.

Business Intelligence

How Metrics Change When Your Company Grows

When your company grows, the metrics that matter changes along with it. Here's a look at the three growth stages of every company, along with the metrics that matter most at each stage.

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