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Demystifying Cloud-Based Data Warehouses: Benefits and Considerations
Being Data-Driven
Demystifying Cloud-Based Data Warehouses: Benefits and Considerations
As Google transitions from Universal Analytics (UA) to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) on July 1, data ownership becomes a top concern for anyone using their platform. While ...
Data Management
The Importance of Data Ownership
Moving your business from disparate data sources and ad hoc reporting to a single source of truth data warehouse solution is a sign of growth in the right direction.
Being Data-Driven
10 Questions to Help Define a Successful Data Warehouse Strategy
One of the significant challenges in handling data comes from the massive amount of data your organization is most likely generating constantly. Having the ability to ...
Data Warehousing
Data Warehouse Design: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Designing and creating a data dictionary for your company is a big process with big returns. It's something you need to do if you want deep insights from your data and ...
Best Practices
7 Best Practices for Building a Data Dictionary
Query Bytes’ are a unit of measure to track the compute power used when working with data. At Panoply, they also happen to be the main differentiator between our ...
Panoply News
What are Panoply Query Bytes?
Poorly designed databases can cause many problems, including a waste of resources, difficult maintenance, and faulty performance. That's why having a great database ...
Best Practices
Database Schema Design Examples
It took a bunch of work, but you finally found the right consultant for your project and worked out a contract you're both happy with. Now you can relax and let them do ...
Working in Data
How to Manage a Data Consultant
If you're a CEO or in leadership, you're often going to be faced with the question of what to do when your company’s data needs outstrip what your IT department, ...
Being Data-Driven
When to Hire a Data Consultant vs. Building Out Your Data Team
You know the janky data solution your startup currently has in place just isn't cutting it. But when you think about building what you need, you get a pit in your ...
Being Data-Driven
How to Create a Data MVP for Your Startup
There's no cookie-cutter way to choose metrics that will work for all startups. In fact, what the history shows us is that everybody who's tried to come up with a better ...
Being Data-Driven
How to Coach Your Startup to Choose Better Metrics
As an analyst, you probably spend a lot of your time creating dashboards and other reports to help your teams and Top Brass track metrics. And you probably spend at ...
Being Data-Driven
KPIs, OKRs, OMTM: The History of Modern Metrics & Why It Matters for Analysts
You know the drill: Sometime in mid-December, a tsunami of planning will crash into your company as teams frantically scramble to figure out their initiatives and KPIs ...
Being Data-Driven
How to Use Dashboards to Guide Your Startup's 2021 Planning
You nailed your proof of concept project. Your initial group of users are happy, and they’re getting comfortable mining the first batch of data for insights that may ...
Best Practices
Deepening Your Approach to Data
Trying to transform your business into a data-driven powerhouse can feel overwhelming. Even if you've got amazing self-service tools, helping your team become ...
Best Practices
Why and How to Assemble Data-Loving Allies
In an ideal world, when you create an amazing plan to build a world-class data stack, your coworkers' minds would be blown, your company's CEO would thank you for your ...
Best Practices
How to Get High-Level Buy-In for Your Data Warehouse Project
The first iteration of your shiny new data warehouse is up and running, and folks are loving it. For example, Marketing is thrilled at how easy it is to pull up the data ...
Best Practices
What Is a Single Source of Truth (SSOT) and Why Do You Need One?
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year,” sang Andy Williams about the Christmas season, but a “wonderful time” might not be how analysts working in e-commerce and ...
Being Data-Driven
How Ecommerce Analysts Can Prep for the Holiday Season
You've spent a bunch of time figuring out the best data stack for your company. It was hard work, and occasionally it was frustrating, but mostly it was fun.
Data Stack
How to Propose a Data Stack
There’s nothing more aggravating for a data analyst than sweating over a great analysis or dashboard only to have it go unused.
Best Practices
Why Data Analysts Should Adopt a Product Mindset
Every week, analysts around the globe are working hard to create data warehouses.
Best Practices
Analyzing Business Needs: The First Step in Your Data Warehouse Project
Implementing modern data management best practices can optimize voluminous amounts of disparate data. This facilitates insights by embracing full transparency across ...
Best Practices
Data Management Strategy and Best Practices in the Cloud
It’s easy to sometimes forget just how much data we’re creating each day. We’re generating data when we work, when we’re at home, and in many cases, as we simply go ...
Best Practices
Data Governance Strategy – A Practical Approach
You’ve done the hard work. You’ve now gotten to the point of data visualization, but can you trust your results? We’ll look at some tips and strategies on how to avoid ...
Data Analysis
How to Avoid Fallacies in Data
Anybody who hangs out in IT or data science circles will invariably become familiar with the acronym GIGO. GIGO stands for “garbage in, garbage out” (or “good in, good ...
Best Practices
Less GIGO, more KNOW: Do's and Don't's in Data Collection and Distribution

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