Data analysts are used to getting requests for data in Excel. It’s almost universally known – If you send someone a dashboard, they’ll ask for it in Excel. But there’s a new request in town – “Can I get this
Sitting through dbt Coalesce conference this week, my biggest takeaway is that data is less trustworthy than ever and people are fired up about it. Often times, an analytics engineer is really just a pissed off analyst who has the
The infrastructure of a modern analytics stack is now the easiest part. 5, 10, or 15 years ago deploying an analytics stack was a huge investment of time and resources. Not anymore. In this video, we set up a modern
We thought it was a good time for a brief update on Hashpath. In addition to focusing on traditional BI consulting, we are seeing strong growth in our other area of speciality, namely customer-facing analytics with our White Label Data
We often recommend ELT solutions like Matillion and FiveTran to our customers as powerful tools for moving data into their warehouse from lots of sources and being able to transform that data to find useful insights. These tools have worked
The world probably does not need another COVID-19 dashboard. But, we couldn’t help building one using BigQuery and Looker since it was so easy and these are tools we use everyday. We’re focusing on Massachusetts and hoping that all our
Raise your hand 🙋♂️if you write SQL but are bad about saving your queries and wish they were source controlled in git. This was me for the last 10 years. I used a variety of tools to help but none
Chartio is a cloud-based visualization tool for building charts and interactive dashboards. If you’ve used it before you know it’s a powerful tool with a drag-and-drop interactive mode as well as a SQL mode for making visualizations. If you’ve built
If your organization doesn’t have a “Data Product Manager”, it might be time to start thinking about hiring one full-time. If you’re not quite ready, hiring a “fractional” data product manager may make sense. McKinnsey states that organizations should “treat
There’s been a lot of action and consolidation in the data analytics space recently (Looker to Google and Tableau to Salesforce to name a couple major ones). But there’s also been a ton of action in the open source space,
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