Git for the rest of us
Together, we’ll demystify the git flow and build a mental model for how git works. You’ll leave the talk feeling ready to use git on every project you work on!
Read articleProduct Manager @ Hex Technologies
As the sole analyst of a fast-growing Sydney startup, Claire experienced the pain of the traditional analyst workflow—stuck on a hamster wheel, an ever-growing backlog, and numbers that never quite matched up. So she taught herself dbt, the command line, version control and brought all the rigor of analytics engineering to her team. Along the way, she fell so in love with dbt that she eventually packed up and moved to the US to lead the growing dbt community.
Together, we’ll demystify the git flow and build a mental model for how git works. You’ll leave the talk feeling ready to use git on every project you work on!
Read articleWatch Carly Kaufman and Claire Carroll's talk replay from the Coalesce analytics engineering conference in 2020.
Read articleFor the foreseeable future, all in-person dbt events are cancelled. But we have some good stuff in the works.
Read articleMarketing attribution has long been one of the stickiest problems in analytics. But with raw data, SQL, and dbt a previously complex problem can become beautifully simple.
Read articleIf you’re a data analyst at a SaaS company or an ecommerce business with a subscription component, it is inevitable that you will be asked to analyze metrics like churn, upgrades, and downgrades. Here's how to do this with dbt.
Read articleAnalytics engineers provide clean data sets to end users, modeling data in a way that empowers end users to answer their own questions.
Read articleMy love for group by 1, 2 developed when I was a fledgling analyst and has only grown. Even if you disagree, I hope this rant will inspire you to be more opinionated in your SQL style.
Read articleAll data analysts have faced the problem–how do I model data when the record in the data warehouse keeps changing? In this post, I'll cover how to solve this using dbt snapshots.
Read articleStephen Whitworth, Data Engineering Lead at Monzo, spoke at the London dbt Meetup a few weeks ago. Here are my thoughts on his talk and what the dbt community can learn from it.
Read articleThe natural state of the universe is chaos: entropy tends to increase in closed systems, and there’s really nothing that we can do about that. So too is the nature of data warehouses: unless action is taken to maintain order.
Read articleAs dbt is adopted by a wider community, we want to be extremely clear about when dbt is, and is not, a fit for your project. This guide will help you figure out if dbt is right for your data transformations.
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