DPIM Framework

Bundling better infra, people, models, and data

A tweet lead me to ask what does better analytics infrastructure, models, data, or even people actually mean?

The answer turns out to be "it depends" 🤷‍♂️

So I wrote out a framework to help you find what better looks like to you.

Curated Columns

The many faces of "Production" - I really like Randy's definition for production.

Production for a system is the state where others (people or systems) will be relying on the function, or output of the system.

We should carefully examine our "route to production". Too often dev becomes prod. When someone treats a report still in development as production it can lead to...

The Data Wheel of Death - Earning the trust of our stakeholders is hard! Then it can be lost overnight. Brian Balfour breaks down the death spiral we can find ourselves in and then shares some strategies to combat that loop.

The Informed Company - Has anyone been able to read this yet? It looks great. I keep hearing we can move beyond dimensional modeling, but the alternatives are unclear. I'm hoping this book can update the Kimball approach. I'll follow up once I've had time to digest it.

Data Doodle

Another week, another insight from the Analytics Engineering Roundup. I had not heard Amazon's leadership principle about one-way vs. two-way doors. It was a nice nuance to add to Benn's approach for measuring analytic work.

*Is this decision a one-way or two-way door?*

Sanity Check #10 - ✏ > ⚔

Hi friends, Data professionals are dynamic people. They are: Designers with eye-pleasing visualizations Developers, authoring jobs that transform data into value Strategists in plotting out the needs of the business Then at the higher levels, analysts do sales. We need to be persuasive in helping our colleagues arrive at a decision. The one skill that helps all of these demands is writing. This week I've pulled together some of my favorite writing resources. If people cannot write well, they...

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Sanity Check #8 - Give me a lever...

Hi friends, I promised you that I would get the newsletter out each week, even if I wasn't able to hit publish on an article. Well - no article this week. To make up for it, I've stuffed extra Curated Columns in here. The theme - leverage. “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” - Archimedes Subscribe Curated Columns Benn Stancil's Response - Benn shared a few blurbs on last week's Data's Secret Sauce article. He quickly teased out a...

about 4 years ago • 2 min read

Sanity Check #7 - Share your Recipes, Save your Secret Sauce

Hi friends, Do you smell that? This week Sanity Check is all about sharing your tasty analyses without giving away the secrets that make it special to you. The Curated Columns are all people that are sharing openly. If you're finding this helpful share it with some friends. Subscribe Data's Secret Sauce Secret family recipes are special because of the warmth and memories attached to them. I believe analyses are the same way. Internal insights are special because of the direction and...