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Data at Work

Real data stories on building data teams and pipelines

Business Intelligence Data at Work Newsletter

Business Metrics vs Customer Metrics

What are the typical metrics that you’d normally look at weekly? If you're like me (a startup founder), you …

Huy Nguyen July 07, 2022
Business Intelligence Data at Work

Obsess Over Controllable Input Metrics

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

Cedric Chin March 24, 2021
Data at Work Startups Business Intelligence

How To Choose A BI Tool - Insights from Datanest

“There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.”  Insight has become an essential need for every company in order to understand what the company is experiencing, why it happens, and what might come in handy in the future.

November 09, 2019
Using Holistics Data at Work

Custom SQL with Tableau? No Problems

Using custom SQL for your Tableau workbooks is usually a really bad idea. Here's how using Holistics with Tableau makes this a non-problem.

Cedric Chin September 25, 2019
Data at Work

Setup A Google BigQuery Data Warehouse In 3 Minutes

With cloud services today like Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Holistics, setting up a data warehouse is insanely simple. In this video, …

Evan Tan May 10, 2019
Data at Work Lean Analytics Business Intelligence

How Data Analytics Helps MyanLearn’s Operations: Holistics Data Platform (Guest Post)

As we are still a very small startup, we do not have a dedicated data team but we want to democratize data access. Holistics plays a big role in our company by providing visualization and reporting features via connecting with our database.

MyanLearn team March 18, 2019
Data at Work Using Holistics

Make Tableau work better for you with Holistics

Tableau is a great data visualization tool to help data teams provide senior executives with summarized data. However, there is typically lots …

Vincent Woon March 11, 2019
dbdiagram Data at Work

dbdiagram.io Many to Many Relationship and Diagram Generator SQL Script

In this post, we will be sharing with you two tips to make dbdiagram.io work better for you * How to define …

Anthony Thong Do February 25, 2019
Holistics Power-ups Data at Work Using Holistics

Optimizing Embedded Analytics Dashboard Performance by Pre-transforming Data

Your embedded analytics dashboard in Holistics takes a long time to load, thus impacting your customers' experience. This post shows you how to optimize the performance of embedded dashboard by preaggregating the data.

Huy Nguyen February 12, 2019
Data at Work Lean Analytics Business Intelligence

How Planogram and Share of Shelf (SOS) Reports Maximise Revenue for Retail and FMCG Companies

Planogram and Share of Shelf/Space (SOS) reports are key field execution reports that are important concerns for decision makers to carry out the marketing strategy. In this article, we will explain what Planogram and SOS reports are.

Yahya Apristianto February 08, 2019
Data at Work Startups Business Intelligence

4 Case Study Questions for Interviewing Data Analysts at a Startup

A good data analyst is one who has an absolute passion for data, he/she has a strong understanding of the business/product you are running, and will be always seeking meaningful insights to help the team make better decisions.

Anthony Thong Do January 22, 2019
Data at Work Lean Analytics Business Intelligence

How To Setup Reporting Analytics For MongoDB

Many Mongo users get stuck going from MongoDB data to analytics. Getting data out of Mongo and into a relational database lets you build your reporting workflow.

Matt Cassel November 19, 2018
Data at Work dbdiagram Using Holistics

dbdiagram.io - A Database Diagram Designer Built for Developers and Analysts

Starting as a feature developed by our interns to help our customers visualize their database schemas on holistics.io  (Business Intelligence Platform) …

Anthony Thong Do October 22, 2018
Data at Work Business Intelligence

What is a Pivot Table?

Pivot Table is a concept that allows you to summarize and aggregate a set of data by different groups of fields. The …

Khai To October 02, 2018
Data at Work Business Intelligence

How Do I Prepare for A Data Analyst Interview?

Preparing for a data analyst interview can be intimidating. Learn a few tips to help you prepare your interview better.

Huy Nguyen September 14, 2018

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