Business Intelligence

The Emotional Needs of Dashboarding

Treating your dashboards like a product means thinking about ALL of your user's needs — rational or otherwise.

What is an OLAP Cube? An Exhaustive Explainer

The definitive explainer for OLAP cubes, where we cover every single possible definition for the phrase.

Business Intelligence

Read Data Research Papers

A hack for when you don't understand data jargon.

Business Intelligence

The Six Ways People Deflect Inconvenient Data

We take a look at an exhaustive list of reasons people give when they want to ignore anomalous data.

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.

Business Intelligence

Self Service Analytics is a Business State

We take a look at what self service analytics is ... by looking at what it isn't.

Business Fundamentals

The Intuition Behind The Rule of 40

The origins and intuition behind a famous SaaS business metric.

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

Obsess Over Controllable Input Metrics

Why Amazon's notion of measuring controllable input metrics is a lot more profound than you might think.

Business Intelligence

This is How Amazon Measures Itself

How Amazon uses metrics. A summary of chapter 6 of Working Backwards, the first book to explain how Amazon really works.