You’ve heard of Product-Market Fit. PMF has become common parlance within startup culture. It has even spawned similar terms, my favorite of which is founder-market fit—you get the idea.

Your startup is full of lots of “fits”. This is called strategy—making lots of…

Erica Louie in Fishtown Analytics

Apr 9, 2019

dbt Learn: Analytics Engineering for Data Analysts

Tristan Handy in Fishtown Analytics

Jan 29, 2018

“How do you decide what to model in dbt vs LookML?”

I got this question on my last post. It is a good one, and one that I’ve gotten a bunch of times over the past year and a half. This post is my attempt to answer it.

Tristan Handy in Fishtown Analytics

Jan 16, 2018

How to Integrate dbt and Looker with User Attributes

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Tristan Handy in Fishtown Analytics

Jan 2, 2018

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…

Tristan Handy in Fishtown Analytics

Oct 17, 2017

What, exactly, is dbt?

dbt (data build tool) is a command line tool that enables data analysts and engineers to transform data in their…

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Tristan Handy in Fishtown Analytics

Mar 9, 2017

The Most Underutilized Function in SQL

Over the past nine months I’ve worked with over a dozen venture-funded startups to build out their internal analytics. In doing so, there’s a single SQL function that I have come to use surprisingly often. At first it wasn’t at all clear to me why I would want…

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