Company News dbt Labs Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Transform, Accelerating development of the dbt Semantic Layer Janessa Lantz on February 8, 2023 February 8, 2023 Janessa Lantz Read this press release to learn about dbt's acquisition of Transform.
Getting started with technical blogging Janessa Lantz, Stephanie Morillo on December 11, 2020 December 11, 2020 Janessa Lantz, Stephanie Morillo Watch Stephanie Morillo and Janessa Lantz's talk replay from the Coalesce analytics engineering conference in 2020.
How-To How great data teams test their data models Erin Vaughan, Janessa Lantz on January 7, 2020 January 7, 2020 Erin Vaughan, Janessa Lantz 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...
Data Org Structure Examples Erin Vaughan, Janessa Lantz on October 29, 2019 October 29, 2019 Erin Vaughan, Janessa Lantz 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?
Building Data Teams The four priorities of a one-person analytics team: lessons from Lola.com Janessa Lantz on October 8, 2019 October 8, 2019 Janessa Lantz Meet Sagar Velagala, Operations Manager at Lola.com. He's a one-person analytics team at a fast-growing, ~100 person company. Here's the analytics strategy that underpins his...
Hiring an Analytics Engineer Erin Vaughan, Janessa Lantz on August 13, 2019 August 13, 2019 Erin Vaughan, Janessa Lantz How to screen for curiosity when making your next analytics engineering hire (example interview questions included).
Centralized vs Decentralized Data Teams Erin Vaughan, Janessa Lantz 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...
