Data at Work (31)

Real data stories on building data teams and pipelines

Make Tableau work better for you with Holistics Data at Work

Make Tableau work better for you with Holistics

Vincent Woon · March 11, 2025 · Data at Work
Business Metrics vs Customer Metrics Business Intelligence

Business Metrics vs Customer Metrics

Huy Nguyen · July 07, 2022 · Business Intelligence
Obsess Over Controllable Input Metrics Business Intelligence

Obsess Over Controllable Input Metrics

Why Amazon's notion of measuring controllable input metrics is a lot more profound than you might think.

Cedric Chin · March 24, 2021 · Business Intelligence
How To Choose A BI Tool - Insights from Datanest Data at Work

How To Choose A BI Tool - Insights from Datanest

“There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.”  Insight has become an essential need for every company in order to understand what the company is experiencing, why it happens, and what might come in handy in the future.

Monica Stephanie · November 09, 2019 · Data at Work
Custom SQL with Tableau? No Problems Using Holistics

Custom SQL with Tableau? No Problems

Using custom SQL for your Tableau workbooks is usually a really bad idea. Here's how using Holistics with Tableau makes this a non-problem.

Cedric Chin · September 25, 2019 · Using Holistics
Setup A Google BigQuery Data Warehouse In 3 Minutes Data at Work

Setup A Google BigQuery Data Warehouse In 3 Minutes

Evan Tan · May 10, 2019 · Data at Work
How Data Analytics Helps MyanLearn’s Operations: Holistics Data Platform (Guest Post) Data at Work

How Data Analytics Helps MyanLearn’s Operations: Holistics Data Platform (Guest Post)

As we are still a very small startup, we do not have a dedicated data team but we want to democratize data access. Holistics plays a big role in our company by providing visualization and reporting features via connecting with our database.

MyanLearn team · March 18, 2019 · Data at Work
dbdiagram.io Many to Many Relationship and Diagram Generator SQL Script dbdiagram

dbdiagram.io Many to Many Relationship and Diagram Generator SQL Script

Anthony Thong Do · February 25, 2019 · dbdiagram
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 Planogram and Share of Shelf (SOS) Reports Maximise Revenue for Retail and FMCG Companies Data at Work

How Planogram and Share of Shelf (SOS) Reports Maximise Revenue for Retail and FMCG Companies

Planogram and Share of Shelf/Space (SOS) reports are key field execution reports that are important concerns for decision makers to carry out the marketing strategy. In this article, we will explain what Planogram and SOS reports are.

Yahya Apristianto · February 08, 2019 · Data at Work
4 Case Study Questions for Interviewing Data Analysts at a Startup Data at Work

4 Case Study Questions for Interviewing Data Analysts at a Startup

A good data analyst is one who has an absolute passion for data, he/she has a strong understanding of the business/product you are running, and will be always seeking meaningful insights to help the team make better decisions.

Anthony Thong Do · January 22, 2019 · Data at Work
How To Setup Reporting Analytics For MongoDB Data at Work

How To Setup Reporting Analytics For MongoDB

Many Mongo users get stuck going from MongoDB data to analytics. Getting data out of Mongo and into a relational database lets you build your reporting workflow.

Matt Cassel · November 19, 2018 · Data at Work
dbdiagram.io - A Database Diagram Designer Built for Developers and Analysts Data at Work

dbdiagram.io - A Database Diagram Designer Built for Developers and Analysts

Anthony Thong Do · October 22, 2018 · Data at Work
What is a Pivot Table? Data at Work

What is a Pivot Table?

Khai To · October 02, 2018 · Data at Work
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
Automating Email Reports from Big Data Lakes (Qubole+Holistics) Data at Work

Automating Email Reports from Big Data Lakes (Qubole+Holistics)

Struggling to draw insights regularly from your data lake? Accessing data lakes for timely insights does not need to be technical or difficult. Using Holistics and Qubole, you can schedule reports to be emailed automatically, from your data lake straight to your inbox.

Evan Tan · September 02, 2018 · Data at Work
Startup Data 101: Building Scalable Data Infrastructure With Holistics (Rezdy Guest Post) Data at Work

Startup Data 101: Building Scalable Data Infrastructure With Holistics (Rezdy Guest Post)

Infrastructure is only as good as the business value it provides. The use of data in a startup, becomes increasingly important as its number of users grows.

Louis Rankin · August 15, 2018 · Data at Work
3 Things To Consider When Choosing The Right BI Tool! Data at Work

3 Things To Consider When Choosing The Right BI Tool!

Jatin Raisinghani · July 18, 2018 · Data at Work
3 Points to Consider When Deciding Between Google BigQuery and Amazon Redshift! Data at Work

3 Points to Consider When Deciding Between Google BigQuery and Amazon Redshift!

What to choose between BigQuerry and Amazon Redshift when it comes to build a cost-efficient, fast, and reliable data warehouse?

Jatin Raisinghani · July 10, 2018 · Data at Work
The Analyst Guide to Designing a Modern Data Warehouse Data at Work

The Analyst Guide to Designing a Modern Data Warehouse

High level guide for data analysts and engineers starting their first data warehouse project.

Vincent Woon · March 14, 2018 · Data at Work
Data Analyst or Excel Monkey? (Becoming a 10x Data Analyst) Data at Work

Data Analyst or Excel Monkey? (Becoming a 10x Data Analyst)

When people think of data analytics, they often think of charts and visualizations. However, the 10x data analyst cannot just be a visualizer. There are several abilities and techniques that a data analyst requires to truly become fully empowered and effective.

Evan Tan · February 23, 2018 · Data at Work
Learning SQL - Why it is critical for Analysts Lean Analytics

Learning SQL - Why it is critical for Analysts

As a derivative of the development of technology, the importance of data to business is indisputable. Converting that information into insights becomes a business advantage. Understanding data flows to be able to work with data is essential for all Analysts.

Hai Nguyen · February 21, 2018 · Lean Analytics
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
Data Lake vs Data Warehouse vs Data Mart Data at Work

Data Lake vs Data Warehouse vs Data Mart

Jatin Raisinghani · February 06, 2018 · Data at Work
ETL vs ELT: How ELT is changing the BI landscape Lean Analytics

ETL vs ELT: How ELT is changing the BI landscape

Ragha Vasudevan · December 20, 2017 · Lean Analytics
Holistics Data Transforms for Performance & Clarity Lean Analytics

Holistics Data Transforms for Performance & Clarity

How Holistics help to join, standardize, clean, pre-process, transform data for reporting.

Ragha Vasudevan · September 25, 2017 · Lean Analytics
Combining Data Sources: The Holistics Approach Data at Work

Combining Data Sources: The Holistics Approach

How Holistics Business Intelligence helps customers combine data from different sources. Without storing their data.

Ragha Vasudevan · September 18, 2017 · Data at Work
Combining Data Sources: Approaches & Considerations Lean Analytics

Combining Data Sources: Approaches & Considerations

Analyze how the way different vendors addresses the problem of combing data from different sources

Ragha Vasudevan · August 31, 2017 · Lean Analytics
Creating A Culture Of Metrics With Metric Sheets Holistics Power-ups

Creating A Culture Of Metrics With Metric Sheets

Evan Tan · June 10, 2017 · Holistics Power-ups
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: Setting Up Your Own MySQL Instance Using Google CloudSQL Data at Work

Quick Guide: Setting Up Your Own MySQL Instance Using Google CloudSQL

Vincent Woon · November 03, 2016 · Data at Work