Erin Vaughan

Erin Vaughan | Janessa Lantz 7 Jan 2020

Analytics code is code. Which means that it will have bugs. And without rigorous processes in place to find and eliminate those bugs, code quality will degrade over time.

Erin Vaughan | Janessa Lantz 29 Oct 2019

The data team is a brand new thing: it’s not IT, it’s not finance...so who does it report to? How big is it?

Erin Vaughan 5 Sep 2019

Version control is a critical part of the software engineering workflow, but for many analysts, writing and reviewing pull requests is still a relatively new habit. Here's a checklist we use to review analytics PRs.

Erin Vaughan 13 Aug 2019

Modern data warehouses have upended the way that data teams function. Increasingly, companies are hiring a new kind of technical analyst to bridge the gap between data engineers and data analysts. Here's why and how you can hire one too.

Erin Vaughan | Janessa Lantz 13 Aug 2019

How to screen for curiosity when making your next analytics engineering hire (example interview questions included).

Erin Vaughan 6 Aug 2019

Advice from analysts and data engineers at HubSpot, Managed by Q, GitLab, Wong Decision Intelligence, AskWonder, and Calogica

Erin Vaughan 30 Oct 2017

Want to go from syncing new data to having transformed data models built in minutes? Packages are going to be your friend.

Erin Vaughan | Janessa Lantz

Over the last four years, the data team at Snaptravel has grown from one analyst to almost a dozen, and they've experimented with five data team structures.