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Metabase Limitations and Top 4 Alternatives (BI)

Metabase is a good open-source BI tool but when your needs grow, you will quickly face problems with it. In this post we'll detail the problems and share some alternatives

Startups

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 …

Data at Work

Google Data Studio: Pricing & In-depth Reviews

Google Data Studio (GDS) is among the popular BI tools in the market developed by Google. In this post, we're going to do a high-level review and analysis of Google Data Studio, what it does, what it excels at and who or what use cases it would suit best.

Holistics Power-ups

Optimizing Embedded Analytics Dashboard Performance by Pre-transforming Data

Your embedded analytics dashboard in Holistics takes a long time to load, thus impacting your customers' experience. This post shows you how to optimize the performance of embedded dashboard by preaggregating the data.

dbdiagram

How to Visualize Your Rails ERD Diagram Instantly

Learn how to use this simple free tool dbdiagram.io to visualize your Rails ERD diagram, made by Holistics

Data at Work

How Do I Prepare for A Data Analyst Interview?

Preparing for a data analyst interview can be intimidating. Learn a few tips to help you prepare your interview better.

Data at Work

How We Built Our MRR Dashboard (Using Pipedrive & Holistics)

Want to customize and automate MRR reporting, to suit your company's specific data needs? Luckily, Holistics integrates with Pipedrive, here's our guide!

Data at Work

How To Interview A Data Analyst Candidate

How do you usually interview a data analyst candidates? In this article, I'll share some of the guidelines and areas you can focus on when interviewing a data analyst candidate. These serve as pointers to aid with your interview.

Data at Work

Data Lake vs Data Warehouse vs Data Mart

The term "Data Lake", "Data Warehouse" and "Data Mart" are often times used interchangbly. But what …

Engineering

How We Built A Job Queue System with PostgreSQL & Ruby For Our B2B SaaS Application

Why and how we built a multi-tenant job queue system for our B2B SaaS Application with PostgreSQL and Ruby