Data Engineering Does Incremental Modeling Truly Save Money? Avoiding Pitfalls for Data Engineers Discover effective cost-saving strategies for data engineers to optimize incremental data processing. Learn how to overcome challenges and maximize the benefits of this powerful approach.
Rethink Your Metrics and Drive Meaningful Change While big-picture metrics like total sales and annual recurring revenue (ARR) give you an overview, they don't provide the practical insights needed for real change.
New Activity Schema Course by DeepSkyData Discover a new course from DeepSkyData that empowers product managers, data analysts, and analytics engineers to master the Activity Schema.
Data Analysis The Data Modeling Paradox: Are we sacrificing insights for structure? While companies heavily rely on data to inform their strategies, the very data models they employ often hinder their ability to ask deep and insightful questions.
Data Engineering Leaving Data Chaos Behind: A Paradigm Shift towards Activity-based Modeling Explore a powerful approach that can revolutionize the way you understand and utilize data: modeling data as activities. Activities can bring clarity and organization to your data, allowing you to gain valuable insights and make the most of your data.
Data Analysis Bad data analysis questions I see every week (and how to fix them) For the past few years at Narrator, I’ve been collecting the bad data questions I often stumble upon and reflecting on how to make them better. This simple exercise, done regularly for a few years, significantly improved the quality of questions I ask. Last week, I thought other data
Data Analysis How I frame data questions to make analyses more useful A simple yet effective mental model I use to turn a vague stakeholder request into something that can be analyzed with data.
Why star schema is set up for failure What is star schema? Star schema [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_schema] is the most common approach to data modeling — primarily made up of fact and dimension tables. Why you need data modeling * Your company has a lot of data across many different data sources: website and marketing interactions,
Data Engineering Handling slowly changing dimensions in an Activity Schema The simplicity of modeling slowly changing dimensions in an Activity Schema vs a Star Schema
Data Engineering Identifying bot traffic with SQL Systematically identify bot users in your web traffic with a simple SQL query.
Data Science When Correlation is Better than Causation A heuristic approach for using correlations to inform decisions
Data Analysis The best way to calculate Customer Lifetime Value for Ecommerce Understanding what Customer Lifetime Value is, why it's a useful metric, and how to compute it.
Data Analysis One question to make your data project 10x more valuable Make sure your data analysis is actionable by asking this one question before getting started.
Data Science How to choose an attribution model, advice from a data scientist The data-driven way to choose an attribution model
Data Analysis When good data analyses fail to deliver the results you expect A cautionary tale of a data analysis, a dashboard, and a huge waste of resources