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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 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 2022.

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 Fundamentals

The Intuition Behind The Rule of 40

The origins and intuition behind a famous SaaS business metric.

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