The Semantic Layer: What It Is and How Should It Be?Most data practitioners I talked to agree on two things.Oct 30Oct 30
Published inTowards Data ScienceData Quality from First PrinciplesAs long as people use data in the workplace, trusting the quality of your data will always be a background concern.Dec 28, 20201Dec 28, 20201
Published inHolistics.ioEmbrace The Data Schlep FirstSchlep exists in every data project, however, you begin to look out for it everywhere cool data projects existDec 2, 2020Dec 2, 2020
Published inTowards Data ScienceThe Four Flavors of Goodhart’s LawGoodhart’s law is a famous saying named after the British economist Charles Goodhart, which usually goes “when a measure becomes a target…Oct 14, 2020Oct 14, 2020
Published inHolistics.ioA Short Story About SQL’s Biggest RivalThe year was 1983. Larry Ellison, over at a tiny company called Oracle, was focused on the fallout of a buggy database product rewrite. In…Oct 7, 2020Oct 7, 2020
Published inHolistics.ioTop 5 Timeless Data Books To Read for Analytic Engineers and Data AnalystsIf you are an analytics engineer or a data analyst, you don’t want to miss out these timeless data books.Sep 30, 2020Sep 30, 2020
Published inTowards Data ScienceWhy is Data Analytics So Far Behind Software Engineering?There are no answers in this piece, only two anecdotes in the service of a single question.Sep 23, 2020Sep 23, 2020
Published inTowards Data ScienceA Dive into Metadata Hub ToolsThere’s something going on with ‘metadata hubs’ today. This article goes through a quick overview of each of these projects and dive into…Sep 14, 2020Sep 14, 2020
Published inHolistics.ioDeath to Dashboards, Really?Over the past couple of months there have been a number of articles about the death of dashboards. See, for instance, Taylor Brownlow’s…Aug 12, 2020Aug 12, 2020
Published inTowards Data ScienceThe Rise and Fall of the OLAP CubeOne of the biggest shifts in data analytics over the past decade is the move away from building ‘data cubes’, or ‘OLAP cubes’, to running…May 15, 202010May 15, 202010