⌛️ Meditations on Time

I’ve found that the one of the most important relationships for our happiness and productivity is that of our relationship with time. It can quickly turn into a sour one. I know it has for me in the past...

🗺 Exploratory vs. Explanatory Visualization

I’ve been kicking around this notion of exploratory vs. explanatory data viz. Despite what most BI tools might have you think, not all data viz is created equal. The charts that we cobble together often have different goals...

🎮 On Multiplayer Analytics

“Figma for X” might not be as common a startup trope as “Uber for X” but it’s definitely catching up over the last few years. My main beef with catchphrases like these are how often they get thrown around without any context...

🥫 The Dashboard Maintenance Problem

Maintaining dashboards and analytics is hard and only gets harder as you further delve into the world of self-serve analytics. This makes sense. More stuff being created means more stuff that can break or slip between the cracks...

🧱 Self-Serve Analytics Building Blocks: A Spectrum

Self-serve analytics is a tough game to win at. Lots of companies aspire to “do self-serve” in order to reduce the load on their analytics and data science teams, but few succeed. This doesn’t mean that we’re hopeless...