A blog about data, tools, and operating collaborative high performance cultures.
How metric trees can serve as an essential system of record.
Exploring how to further empower the OG data folks, the finance team.
Metrics or semantic layers can do much more than metrics governance.
Taking a look at how analytics can power planning processes
Examining how dashboards only address one of many data needs.
Sharing a rich real-world example of a metric tree
An examination of "metrics layers" two years in - after the early buzz
Metric trees model relationships between inputs and outputs
How metric trees enable root causing, save time and generate $$$
A proper introduction to metric trees with a real world example
Somewhat skeptical this is a radical, fundamental change
Analysts are our unsung heroes, and why we need to empower them
Categorizing the three types of analysis all orgs need to execute
Taking chatGPT for a quick spin to see if it can role play as a data analyst!
Why dashboards are the default vs self-serve analytics
Modeling segments in a business semantic graph
It's time we embraced stronger modeling in the modern data stack.
How the "report" is woefully inadequate for modern teams.