Huy Nguyen

Huy Nguyen

Data Engineer turned Product; writes SQL for a living.

Best AI Analytics Platforms: 13 Tools Reviewed (2026)

Best AI Analytics Platforms: 13 Tools Reviewed (2026)

We compare 13 AI analytics platforms across semantic depth, governance, reliability, and whether the system gets smarter with use. Includes Holistics, Power BI Copilot, Tableau AI, Looker Gemini, ThoughtSpot, and more.

Huy Nguyen · May 13, 2026
Slice n' Dice: A Self-Service Story Business Intelligence

Slice n' Dice: A Self-Service Story

Huy Nguyen · May 30, 2025 · Business Intelligence
The Goldilocks Rule of Getting Data Driven Business Intelligence

The Goldilocks Rule of Getting Data Driven

Huy Nguyen · February 02, 2025 · Business Intelligence
The 4 Types of Data Scales Business Intelligence

The 4 Types of Data Scales

Numbers aren't all created equal; they fall into four distinct categories known as data scales. Understanding this, you'll learn how to handle each type correctly to make your data work for you.

Huy Nguyen · November 13, 2024 · Business Intelligence
4 levels of Analytics-as-Code Business Intelligence

4 levels of Analytics-as-Code

How did Analytics-as-Code evolve? We explain the history behind the movement, and present the 4 levels of analytics as code over the years.

Huy Nguyen · March 25, 2024 · Business Intelligence
The Two Forms of Metrics: Interval vs Point Business Intelligence

The Two Forms of Metrics: Interval vs Point

In actual business conversations, the metric's form is sometimes ignored and implicitly understood. Understanding this concept gives you much better clarity in dealing with metrics.

Huy Nguyen · November 13, 2023 · Business Intelligence
The skills chasm of the data analyst career Business Intelligence

The skills chasm of the data analyst career

Why are so few data analysts get good at business problem-solving?

Huy Nguyen · October 10, 2023 · Business Intelligence
How Would An Ideal Semantic Layer Look Like? Business Intelligence

How Would An Ideal Semantic Layer Look Like?

Huy Nguyen · April 28, 2023 · Business Intelligence
How to run a Data Clinic (aka Data Office Hours) Business Intelligence

How to run a Data Clinic (aka Data Office Hours)

Data clinic is one of many ways you create value and drive your organization toward better data literacy. Here's how.

Huy Nguyen · October 19, 2022 · Business Intelligence
The Misleading Data Analyst Job Title (and Career Ladder) Business Intelligence

The Misleading Data Analyst Job Title (and Career Ladder)

Investment analyst is an entry-level investment position. So is data analyst an entry-level data position, too?

Huy Nguyen · July 21, 2022 · Business Intelligence
Business Metrics vs Customer Metrics Business Intelligence

Business Metrics vs Customer Metrics

Huy Nguyen · July 07, 2022 · Business Intelligence
The Silos between Data Analysts and Data Engineers Business Intelligence

The Silos between Data Analysts and Data Engineers

Huy Nguyen · October 20, 2021 · Business Intelligence
The Silos of Data Organization: Data Analysts vs Business Users Business Intelligence

The Silos of Data Organization: Data Analysts vs Business Users

Huy Nguyen · October 13, 2021 · Business Intelligence
Analytics as Code Business Intelligence

Analytics as Code

A short story about my history with programmatic configuration (or lack thereof) and how it's related to analytics.

Huy Nguyen · September 30, 2021 · Business Intelligence
Fitting Into Your Company's Learning Cadence Business Intelligence

Fitting Into Your Company's Learning Cadence

How a data person might fit into your company's learning cadence, and what that means for company performance.

Huy Nguyen · August 11, 2021 · Business Intelligence
Simple Data People Tricks Business Intelligence

Simple Data People Tricks

Simple data people tricks, a hierarchy of feature stores, and Shreyas Doshi on product metrics.

Huy Nguyen · March 11, 2021 · Business Intelligence
How Amazon Uses Input Metrics Business Intelligence

How Amazon Uses Input Metrics

How Amazon uses input metrics, a data pipeline is a materialized view, and the case against self-service data and analytics.

Huy Nguyen · February 24, 2021 · Business Intelligence
Snowflake and the Data Lakehouse Business Intelligence

Snowflake and the Data Lakehouse

A quick look at what Snowflake's been up to re: the Data Lakehouse, an inside look at Amazon's data-driven decision making, and how Airbnb customized Superset to fit their needs.

Huy Nguyen · February 17, 2021 · Business Intelligence
The Data Lakehouse is a Thing Business Intelligence

The Data Lakehouse is a Thing

The data lakehouse is a thing, Superset is also a thing, and how to make dashboards using a product thinking approach.

Huy Nguyen · February 03, 2021 · Business Intelligence
Announcing The Analytics Setup Guidebook: The First Principles Approach to Data Analytics Inner Join

Announcing The Analytics Setup Guidebook: The First Principles Approach to Data Analytics

We're releasing The Analytics Setup Guidebook, a first-principles approach to data analytics. Get it free today!

Huy Nguyen · June 12, 2020 · Inner Join
Qualitative data-driven: How we boost team alignment and customer empathy by written communications Startups

Qualitative data-driven: How we boost team alignment and customer empathy by written communications

Huy Nguyen · April 16, 2019 · Startups
Optimizing Embedded Analytics Dashboard Performance by Pre-transforming Data Holistics Power-ups

Optimizing Embedded Analytics Dashboard Performance by Pre-transforming Data

Your embedded analytics dashboard in Holistics takes a long time to load, thus impacting your customers' experience. This post shows you how to optimize the performance of embedded dashboard by preaggregating the data.

Huy Nguyen · February 12, 2019 · Holistics Power-ups
How to Visualize Your Rails ERD Diagram Instantly dbdiagram

How to Visualize Your Rails ERD Diagram Instantly

Learn how to use this simple free tool dbdiagram.io to visualize your Rails ERD diagram, made by Holistics

Huy Nguyen · October 26, 2018 · dbdiagram
How Do I Prepare for A Data Analyst Interview? Data at Work

How Do I Prepare for A Data Analyst Interview?

Preparing for a data analyst interview can be intimidating. Learn a few tips to help you prepare your interview better.

Huy Nguyen · September 14, 2018 · Data at Work
How To Interview A Data Analyst Candidate Data at Work

How To Interview A Data Analyst Candidate

How do you usually interview a data analyst candidates? In this article, I'll share some of the guidelines and areas you can focus on when interviewing a data analyst candidate. These serve as pointers to aid with your interview.

Huy Nguyen · February 10, 2018 · Data at Work
How We Built A Job Queue System with PostgreSQL & Ruby For Our B2B SaaS Application Engineering

How We Built A Job Queue System with PostgreSQL & Ruby For Our B2B SaaS Application

Why and how we built a multi-tenant job queue system for our B2B SaaS Application with PostgreSQL and Ruby

Huy Nguyen · January 24, 2018 · Engineering
Understanding Your Average Customer Value Over Time (CVO) Lean Analytics

Understanding Your Average Customer Value Over Time (CVO)

Huy Nguyen · November 24, 2017 · Lean Analytics
Quick Guide: Calculate Cohort Retention Analysis with SQL Lean Analytics

Quick Guide: Calculate Cohort Retention Analysis with SQL

Huy Nguyen · October 30, 2017 · Lean Analytics
Useful PostgreSQL Queries For Monitoring Purpose Lean Analytics

Useful PostgreSQL Queries For Monitoring Purpose

Huy Nguyen · October 29, 2017 · Lean Analytics
Why and How We Migrated from AngularJS to VueJS Engineering

Why and How We Migrated from AngularJS to VueJS

Huy Nguyen · October 10, 2017 · Engineering
Introducing Annotations New at Holistics

Introducing Annotations

Huy Nguyen · May 25, 2017 · New at Holistics
Moving From Redshift to Presto - Data Engineering at Grab Engineering

Moving From Redshift to Presto - Data Engineering at Grab

Huy Nguyen · May 10, 2017 · Engineering
Quick Guide: Building Daily + Running Total Report With SQL Lean Analytics

Quick Guide: Building Daily + Running Total Report With SQL

Huy Nguyen · March 22, 2017 · Lean Analytics
Splitting array/string into rows in Amazon Redshift or MySQL SQL Tips

Splitting array/string into rows in Amazon Redshift or MySQL

Huy Nguyen · September 28, 2016 · SQL Tips
Quick Guide: Reusing Your SQLs with Query Templates Lean Analytics

Quick Guide: Reusing Your SQLs with Query Templates

Huy Nguyen · September 26, 2016 · Lean Analytics
Why You Should Use Postgres Over MySQL For Analytics Purpose Engineering

Why You Should Use Postgres Over MySQL For Analytics Purpose

Huy Nguyen · June 22, 2016 · Engineering