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.

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.

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’ …

Business Intelligence

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.

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.

Business Intelligence

What is an OLAP Cube? An Exhaustive Explainer

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

Data Modeling

A 2022 Reader's Guide to The Data Warehouse Toolkit

Ralph Kimball's classic book The Data Warehouse Toolkit introduce the world to the practice of data modeling. Here's how to read it in 2020.

Business Intelligence

Read Data Research Papers

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