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The strange way data tracking chops up the business into pieces!
Examining the key principles building for data consumers versus producers
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
How metric trees can map a digital twin of the business process
Metric trees are the final modeling step for data consumption
Examining the differences between software and analytics development
Modeling metrics in the next frontier to streamline data consumption
A short post on inter-related concepts to metric trees
Using a classic 2x2 framework to explore metric tree modeling
Diving into the unique challenges with modeling process grains.
Diving into the 3 types of grains that permeate business metrics.
Examining Jevon's Paradox in the data domain, and how to resolve moving forward.
Metric Trees could become a canonical framework like Kimball's
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