Blog posts from

Vijay Subramanian

A blog about data, tools, and operating collaborative high performance cultures.
Mar 2, 2024
Key Trends
Finance Teams were the Original Data Pioneers

Exploring how to further empower the OG data folks, the finance team.

Vijay Subramanian
Feb 15, 2024
Data Culture
Metrics Overload in Business Reviews

"Metrics bloat" is a common challenge to doing effective business reviews

Vijay Subramanian
Jan 29, 2024
Data Culture
Data-Driven: Technical vs Cultural Aspects

Discussing what it means to be a truly data-driven culture

Vijay Subramanian
Dec 21, 2023
Data Culture
Three Distinct Organizational, Analytical Workflows

Diving into React, Explore and Plan - three analytical jobs-to-be-done

Vijay Subramanian
Dec 6, 2023
Key Trends
Data DAGs for Producers, Metric Graphs for Consumers

Could "metric graphs" enable data consumers?

Vijay Subramanian
Nov 14, 2023
Key Trends
Benefits of Metrics and Semantic Layers

Metrics or semantic layers can do much more than metrics governance.

Vijay Subramanian
Oct 17, 2023
Data Culture
The Role of Data Teams in Org-Wide Planning

Taking a look at how analytics can power planning processes

Vijay Subramanian
Sep 28, 2023
Key Trends
Analytics: from Service to Product Mindset

Data-as-a-Product mindset can transform the analytics function

Vijay Subramanian
Sep 12, 2023
Key Trends
The Increasingly Limited Role of Dashboards

Examining how dashboards only address one of many data needs.

Vijay Subramanian
Aug 22, 2023
Metric Trees
Metric Tree Example: A Profit Tree for Trace Nutrition Shop

Sharing a rich real-world example of a metric tree

Vijay Subramanian
Aug 15, 2023
Key Trends
Kimball's Modeling Approach: A Few Drawbacks

Investigating a few drawbacks to Kimball's modeling approach

Vijay Subramanian
Aug 10, 2023
Key Trends
The Lasting Power of Kimball's Modeling Approach

A look at the lasting power of Kimball's dimensional modeling approach

Vijay Subramanian
Aug 1, 2023
Key Trends
Metrics Layer: 2 Years In

An examination of "metrics layers" two years in - after the early buzz

Vijay Subramanian
Jul 27, 2023
Metric Trees
Bridging Data and Business Teams with Metric Trees

How metric trees help translate across data and business domains

Vijay Subramanian
Jul 19, 2023
Metric Trees
A Common Example of Arithmetic Metric Equations

Exploring the power of metric equations with a simple example

Vijay Subramanian
Jul 11, 2023
Metric Trees
Metric Analysis: Volume Mix vs Behavior

Sharing a common "mixshift" analysis pattern for a key metric of interest

Vijay Subramanian
Jun 30, 2023
Metric Trees
Metric Trees : Modeling Inputs and Outputs

Metric trees model relationships between inputs and outputs

Vijay Subramanian
Jun 22, 2023
Data Culture
Metrics - We Have Too Many or Too Few

Utilize metric trees to avoid the "too many/too few" debate.

Vijay Subramanian
Jun 15, 2023
Data Culture
Reporting vs Analytics Cultures Examined

The differences between reporting-first vs analytics-first cultures

Vijay Subramanian
Jun 2, 2023
Metric Trees
Streamlining Root Causing Using Metric Trees

How metric trees enable root causing, save time and generate $$$

Vijay Subramanian
May 30, 2023
Metric Trees
Introduction to Metric Trees

A proper introduction to metric trees with a real world example

Vijay Subramanian
May 16, 2023
Data Culture
Common Pitfalls with Business Reviews

Using metric trees and segments can level up business reviews

Vijay Subramanian
Apr 27, 2023
Data Culture
In the data domain, it is Transformations all the way

The different types of data transformations from raw to final

Vijay Subramanian
Apr 11, 2023
Key Trends
Just ask the AI bot any question!

Somewhat skeptical this is a radical, fundamental change

Vijay Subramanian
Mar 30, 2023
Data Culture
More Dashboards != Analytics-Driven Culture

Fewer dashboards, more metric analytics please!

Vijay Subramanian