One Analyst’s Guide for going from Good to Great

Once you’ve mastered the basics—SQL, Excel and your business intelligence tool—it can be really hard to figure out how to increase analytics skills. For many analysts this can lead to frustrating periods where you know you need to level up, but…

Scaling Knowledge

The hardest thing about scaling a company is communication.

How to Safely Convert Strings to Integers in Redshift

This is a very stupid problem. I am not writing this post because it’s a fascinating topic—rather, I’m writing it in the hopes that you avoid the headaches that I’ve gone through scouring the internet for the best answer to this question:

How to Design Your Looker Explores

I get these questions all the time:

• “Should I make a new explore or add more joins to an existing one?”
• “Which table should I start my explore with?”
• “Which explore should I use to build this…

How to Integrate dbt and Looker with User Attributes