A blog about data, tools, and operating collaborative high performance cultures.
Could "metric graphs" enable data consumers?
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
An examination of "metrics layers" two years in - after the early buzz
Utilize metric trees to avoid the "too many/too few" debate.
The different types of data transformations from raw to final
The tension between governed data and consumer flexibility.
Why dashboards are the default vs self-serve analytics