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Business Intelligence

How to Measure Software Development, from ‘Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps’

Tracking the performance of your software development team is really, really difficult. The 2018 book Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps gives us a fantastic way to measure just that. Here's how.

Cedric Chin March 12, 2020
Business Intelligence

Why Measuring Cash Flow is More Important Than Measuring Profitability

Why your CEO is so obsessed with cash flow metrics, and what you can do to help as an analytics person in your company.

Cedric Chin March 05, 2020
Inner Join

What It's Like Being a Growth Hunter Intern at Holistics

This is one of the #lifeatholistics stories written by our Intern graduate.

Clarisa Fiona February 28, 2020
Business Intelligence

The Two Philosophies of Cost in Data Analytics

There appears to be two philosophies today when it comes to managing costs in a modern data stack. We explore what they are.

Cedric Chin February 21, 2020
Inner Join

What It's Like Being a Designer Intern at Holistics

Creative designer intern Teo shares his experiences working at Holistics Indonesia.

Teodorus Bala Karang February 13, 2020
Business Intelligence Business Fundamentals

Developing an Intuitive Understanding of the SaaS Quick Ratio

An explanation of the SaaS Quick Ratio that focuses on the intuition behind the metric. Written with the data analyst in mind.

Cedric Chin February 13, 2020
Business Intelligence Data Modeling

OLAP != OLAP Cube

There's a tendency for people to conflate OLAP with OLAP cube. We take a quick look at how this happens, why it shouldn't, and why it matters if you're a data practitioner.

Cedric Chin February 06, 2020
Business Intelligence Data Modeling

The Rise and Fall of the OLAP Cube

A definitive history of the rise of the OLAP cube, how it's affected our industry, and what comes after.

Cedric Chin January 30, 2020
Using Holistics

How to Create Data Models from External Data Sources in Holistics

In Holistics, you are now able to create data models on top of external data sources like MongoDB and Google Sheets. Here's a video tutorial on how to do exactly that.

Cedric Chin January 20, 2020
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