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).
Business Intelligence 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
Business Intelligence 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 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.
Business Intelligence Clearer Communication: How To Use The Ladder of Inference When Communicating Data To Your Business Users If you work in data analytics, communicating complex information is just part of your job. Here's how to use the Ladder of Inference to get better at it.
Business Intelligence A 2020 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.
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Business Intelligence Data Quality from First Principles Why data quality is an ongoing, people, process, and tools problem, and how to think about getting better at it.
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.
