A blog about data, tools, and operating collaborative high performance cultures.
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
Investigating a few drawbacks to Kimball's modeling approach
A look at the lasting power of Kimball's dimensional modeling approach
A quick examination of "metrics layers" two years in - after the early buzz
How metric trees help translate across data and business domains
Exploring the power of metric equations with a simple example
Sharing a common "mixshift" analysis pattern for a key metric of interest
Examining how metric trees model relationships between inputs and outputs
Leverage metric trees to organize your metrics - and avoid the "too many/too few" debate.