Alation

JANUARY 17, 2023

Data would be pulled from various sources, organized into, say, a table, and loaded into a data warehouse for mass consumption. This was not only time-consuming, but the growing popularity of cloud data warehouses compelled people to rethink this process. Examples of data transformation tools include dbt and dataform.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Move from a data collection obsession and develop a crush on data analysys. It provides the Key Performance Indicator that I consider to be the holiest of the holy in web analytics: Task Completion Rate (segmented by Primary Purpose). I am forgetting the other 25 features these tools provide for free.

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Jet Global

MAY 1, 2023

This is in contrast to traditional BI, which extracts insight from data outside of the app. We rely on increasingly mobile technology to comb through massive amounts of data and solve high-value problems. Plus, there is an expectation that tools be visually appealing to boot. Their dashboards were visually stunning.

Analytics 52

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