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Most analytics leaders put self-service analytics at the top of their list of items on their annual roadmap, but they never seem to talk the potentially disastrous implications of creating self-service tools. Enabling self-service analytics sounds straight forward where data engineering...

In this post I’m going to share some best practices for formatting SQL that I’ve learned and used over the last 20 years. Many of these tips are things that I’ve collected along the way out of frustration with inheriting code, needing to perform updates, chasing down bugs, and...

Welcome back to Part 7 of Building a Better Analytics Organization. In parts 1–5, we covered a number of challenges that analytics organizations face and in part 6, we covered a comprehensive solution. In this part, we’ll discuss how to implement the solutions within your...

Welcome to Part 6 of Building a Better Analytics Organization. So far, we’ve discussed:

Part 1 — Introduction, common tasks, and an introduction to challenges for an individual and for a team
Part 2 — Overview of the common areas where problems can occur and the...

Welcome to Part 5 of my series on Building a Better Analytics Organization. In this part, we’ll be covering a few issues surrounding the usage of tables and views.

Part 1 — Introduction, common tasks, and an introduction to challenges for an individual and for a team
Part 2 ...

We’ve arrived at Part 4 of Building a Better Analytics organization and in this part, we’re going to cover issues around visualizations within applications such as Power BI and Tableau since those are the two most common applications. In this article, We will highlight the...

If you’ve been following along, this is Part 3 of my series on Building a Better Analytics Organization — Code Challenges.

Part 1 — Introduction, common tasks, and an introduction to challenges for an individual and for a team
Part 2 — Overview of the common areas...

Welcome back to my series on Building a Better Analytics Organization.

Part 1 — Introduction, common tasks, and an introduction to challenges for an individual and for a team
Part 2 — Overview of the common areas where problems can occur and the specific problems that...

Welcome to Part 1 of my 7-part series on Building a Better Analytics Organization. In this series we’ll be discussing how to create a connected analytics world to help you move faster, with fewer bugs, and less headaches. In this article, I’ll cover a background of the analytics...

Over the last 20 years, I’ve been consistently working in the tech space and I’ve worked as an individual contributor and a manager with 6 different companies. I started out in software quality assurance engineering, wrote various applications, and later moved into analytics...

Over the last 10 years dashboards have become a crucial asset in the analytics space. Stakeholders want dashboards built for limitless reasons, analysts and managers rely on them for daily insights, and the dashboard vendors (such Tableau and PowerBI) assert the power, ability, and potential of...