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 …
Feature Release
Introducing Holistics Canal - a fast query streaming engine
Canal aims to provide much better performance, maintainability, and scalability throughout Holistics querying operations.
Business Intelligence
The 4 Types of Data Scales
Numbers aren't all created equal; they fall into four distinct categories known as data scales. Understanding this, you'll learn how to handle each type correctly to make your data work for you.
Feature Release
Aggregate Awareness: Optimize query performance with pre-aggregates
Automatically pick the most optimal aggregated tables per each query for maximal query performance.
Feature Release
Introducing Canvas Dashboard (Dashboard As Code)
Turn rigid dashboards into living documents, rich with interactivity, business context, and storytelling.
Business Intelligence
The Self-Service Analytics Maturity Scorecard
The industry seems split on what "self-service analytics means". Benn Stancil suggests it's more of a "feeling, …
Designing Data Organizations
How to Restructure Data Teams Effectively, the Modern Analytics Leader, and the Evolution of Data Roles: An Interview with Christine Jiang
For this week’s episode of Designing Data Organizations, we spoke with Christine Jiang, former Director of Core Analytics at Vimeo, who was with the organization between 2020 and 2024.
Designing Data Organizations
Effective Performance Tracking, Analytics as a Strategic Partner, and Managing Globally Distributed Teams at ZoomInfo: An Interview with Michael Perlis
Designing Data Organizations is brought to you by Holistics, where we delve into the intricate process of creating and optimizing data teams within organizations.
Business Intelligence
Metrics Deserve Better Composition Than What SQL Allows
If you have dabbled in the Software Engineering world, you may think this post is about the catchphrase: “Composition over Inheritance” and …
Data Modeling
Business Intelligence
The Three Types of Fact Tables
A concise tour of one of the basic components of Kimball dimensional data modeling. We explore the three types of fact tables, and then analyze why they have lasted the test of time.
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