Hi friends,

Thanks for being here! No preamble - just hope you're having a good day =)

Let's get into it.

​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.

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.