Top Stories published by Fishtown Analytics in July of 2017

Why Doesn’t dbt Support Python?

dbt, our open source product for data modeling, is SQL-only. SQL can, by itself, accomplish a majority of analytical (non-data science) workloads. With dbt’s built-in Jinja2 templating engine, including its ability to introspect the schema at runtime, SQL becomes even more…


One Year In: We’re Still in Business

Fishtown Analytics celebrates its one year anniversary today. Last night we had a small soiree to celebrate the event and called it the “We’re Still in Business” party. The name reflects my surprise that we continue to exist—that clients continue to pay us money to…