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Ideas from Trace

Thoughts on business analysis, metric trees, AI, and the future of how companies understand performance.
More Dashboards != Analytics-Driven Culture

Fewer dashboards, more metric analytics please!

Vijay Subramanian
Empowering Analysts and Analytics

Analysts are our unsung heroes, and why we need to empower them

Vijay Subramanian
Demanding Actionable Insights

How do we actually produce actionable insights?

Vijay Subramanian
The Perennial Tension: Governance vs Flexibility

The tension between governed data and consumer flexibility.

Vijay Subramanian
Three Types of Analysis: R,E,P

Categorizing the three types of analysis all orgs need to execute

Vijay Subramanian
Is chatGPT our new data analyst?

Taking chatGPT for a quick spin to see if it can role play as a data analyst!

Vijay Subramanian
Dashboards vs Self-Service Analytics and Operations

Why dashboards are the default vs self-serve analytics

Vijay Subramanian
Data, Narratives and Elections

A post about how we build narratives from data.

Vijay Subramanian
What are Data Apps?

Exploring the recent buzz around "data apps" and its potential

Vijay Subramanian
The Power of Modeling Segments using Business Semantics

Modeling segments in a business semantic graph

Vijay Subramanian
Analytics Evolutionary Steps

This post outlines key evolutionary steps for a strong analytics practice.

Business Semantic Graph - a Deeper Dive

A followup post diving deeper into a business semantic graph example.

Output Standards and Contracts

Could we standardize data outputs via contracts?

The Business Semantic Graph

We look at an example of a business semantic graph.

Vijay Subramanian
Analytics on Semantics

It's time we embraced stronger modeling in the modern data stack.

Vijay Subramanian
Long live metric transformations!

How the "report" is woefully inadequate for modern teams.

Vijay Subramanian
Data is a first class citizen. But…

Data is being elevated to a first class citizen but still lacks reach.

Cloud Data Platforms: Lessons from the First Wave

How recent the cloud data platforms still are, and what's needed next.

Vijay Subramanian
Learning and Unlearning

Startup phase transitions are rarely discussed.

Vijay Subramanian
I wish I knew SQL

Why this feeling exists, and what's the way forward.

Vijay Subramanian
Data, ROI etc.

Some thoughts on data team ROI

Vijay Subramanian
Engineering the Data World

The engineering forces taking over the data domain

Three Principles for a Modern Org

Three key principles to operating a modern organization

Too Much Emphasis on Product Metrics?

Examining the ascendance of product metrics

Vijay Subramanian
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