Data strategy, analytics engineering, BI, data science, and the practical work of turning data into better decisions.
Data, analytics and business modelling
Data strategy, analytics engineering, BI, data science, and the practical work of turning data into better decisions.
Essays
Essay 01
In recent years the data world has taken a lot from software engineering - especially the software development lifecycle. For me it started with Looker: a semantic layer in code, even dashboards as code. Soon after I was...
Essay 02
Imagine a CEO asking the awkward question in a leadership meeting:
Essay 03
I was a huge fan of Looker. Then of dbt. Semantic layers after that.
Essay 04
In the last piece I argued that a semantic layer is one point on a spectrum of business modelling - very good at making calculations reusable, less complete as a home for everything those calculations depend on. Much of ...