A blog about data, tools, and operating collaborative high performance cultures.


The powerful loop is action yielding insights driving more action.

Metric Trees could become a canonical framework like Kimball's

Looking at true organizational needs for a metrics layer solution

Examining the 4 "levels" at which business reviews are executed

High vs low functioning data cultures and associated impact on data ROI

How metric trees can serve as an essential system of record.

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

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

Discussing what it means to be a truly data-driven culture
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Diving into React, Explore and Plan - three analytical jobs-to-be-done

Could "metric graphs" enable data consumers?
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Metrics or semantic layers can do much more than metrics governance.

Taking a look at how analytics can power planning processes

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

Examining how dashboards only address one of many data needs.

Sharing a rich real-world example of a metric tree
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Investigating a few drawbacks to Kimball's modeling approach
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A look at the lasting power of Kimball's dimensional modeling approach
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An examination of "metrics layers" two years in - after the early buzz
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How metric trees help translate across data and business domains