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

Arguing that metric cubes help with performant data products and UX

Examining the evolution of data platforms from producer to consumer

Exploring metric trees as the next modeling layer, as intuitive as Kimball's

The much needed evolution in BI/Analytics tools

Exploring why data fragmentation feels natural and how to arrest it

The key differences between metric catalogs, layers and trees

Why BI tools are becoming UIs for exporting datasets

How metric trees can map a digital twin of the business process

Examining the differences between software and analytics development

Modeling metrics in the next frontier to streamline data consumption

Exploiting the recent advances in data production to drive consumption

Examining analytics workflows as an assembly line process

A short post on inter-related concepts to metric trees

Examining Jevon's Paradox in the data domain, and how to resolve moving forward.

Looking at true organizational needs for a metrics layer solution

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

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

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

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