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
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).
Inner Join
What It's Like Being a Growth Hunter Intern at Holistics
This is one of the #lifeatholistics stories written by our Intern graduate.
Redash limitations and top alternatives
Redash is a good, popular open-source SQL-based BI tool that can be installed easily on local environment to get a simple SQL-to-chart functionality going. Yet as your analytics needs grow, you might face some pain points when using Redash
Using Holistics
SQL Tips
How to unnest / extract nested JSON data in MySQL 8.0
In this article, we will demonstrate how to use the JSON_EXTRACT and JSON_TABLE functions in MySQL8.0 to convert JSON table into tabular data for analysis and reports, and also how to utilise it in Holistics for drag-and-drop reports.
Business Intelligence
Business Fundamentals
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.
Business Intelligence
Business Fundamentals
The Magic Money Machine Model
One way to get better at business communication is to learn the fundamentals of business. We explain Return on Invested Capital from first principles, written with the data analyst in mind.