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The Silos between Data Analysts and Data Engineers

This is part two of the “Silos of Data Organization” series. Part one was sent out last week. For this one, let’ …

The Silos of Data Organization: Data Analysts vs Business Users

As a Data Analyst, you usually work with two types of stakeholders: the clients (business users) who ask for data, and the …

Business Intelligence

The Goldilocks Rule of Getting Data Driven

Have you ever played table tennis? Imagine you’re a recreational table tennis player. You’re not great, but you’re not …

Business Intelligence

Analytics as Code

A short story about my history with programmatic configuration (or lack thereof) and how it's related to analytics.

Metabase Limitations and Top 4 Alternatives (BI)

Metabase Limitations and Top 4 Alternatives (BI). 4 Best Metabase alternatives in 2021. Looker, Tableau, PowerBI and Holistics are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Metabase. Cons of Metabase.

Business Intelligence

Fitting Into Your Company's Learning Cadence

How a data person might fit into your company's learning cadence, and what that means for company performance.

Data at Work

Google Data Studio: Pricing, In-depth Reviews & Tutorials

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.

Business Intelligence

Simple Data People Tricks

Simple data people tricks, a hierarchy of feature stores, and Shreyas Doshi on product metrics.

Business Intelligence

How Amazon Uses Input Metrics

How Amazon uses input metrics, a data pipeline is a materialized view, and the case against self-service data and analytics.

Business Intelligence

Snowflake and the Data Lakehouse

A quick look at what Snowflake's been up to re: the Data Lakehouse, an inside look at Amazon's data-driven decision making, and how Airbnb customized Superset to fit their needs.