Finance Teams were the Original Data Pioneers
Exploring how to further empower the OG data folks, the finance team.
Metrics Overload in Business Reviews
"Metrics bloat" is a common challenge to doing effective business reviews
Data-Driven: Technical vs Cultural Aspects
Discussing what it means to be a truly data-driven culture
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Three Distinct Organizational, Analytical Workflows
Diving into React, Explore and Plan - three analytical jobs-to-be-done
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Benefits of Metrics and Semantic Layers
Metrics or semantic layers can do much more than metrics governance.
The Role of Data Teams in Org-Wide Planning
Taking a look at how analytics can power planning processes
Analytics: from Service to Product Mindset
Data-as-a-Product mindset can transform the analytics function
The Increasingly Limited Role of Dashboards
Examining how dashboards only address one of many data needs.
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Kimball's Modeling Approach: A Few Drawbacks
Investigating a few drawbacks to Kimball's modeling approach
The Lasting Power of Kimball's Modeling Approach
A look at the lasting power of Kimball's dimensional modeling approach
Metrics Layer: 2 Years In
An examination of "metrics layers" two years in - after the early buzz
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Bridging Data and Business Teams with Metric Trees
How metric trees help translate across data and business domains
A Common Example of Arithmetic Metric Equations
Exploring the power of metric equations with a simple example
Metric Analysis: Volume Mix vs Behavior
Sharing a common "mixshift" analysis pattern for a key metric of interest
Metric Trees : Modeling Inputs and Outputs
Metric trees model relationships between inputs and outputs
Metrics - We Have Too Many or Too Few
Utilize metric trees to avoid the "too many/too few" debate.
Reporting vs Analytics Cultures Examined
The differences between reporting-first vs analytics-first cultures
Streamlining Root Causing Using Metric Trees
How metric trees enable root causing, save time and generate $$$
Introduction to Metric Trees
A proper introduction to metric trees with a real world example
Common Pitfalls with Business Reviews
Using metric trees and segments can level up business reviews
Rethinking Self-Service Analytics
Let's re-think self-service as dashboards are just basic service.
In the data domain, it is Transformations all the way
The different types of data transformations from raw to final
Just ask the AI bot any question!
Somewhat skeptical this is a radical, fundamental change
