Open Source

dbt v0.14.0: Better serving our users

Last week, Fishtown Analytics turned three years old. This is an exciting milestone for us, and our journey to-date is best summarized by a graph that you may have seen before:

What’s in a name?

Sinter just became dbt Cloud. Why the re-brand?

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…

Analysts need collaboration & workflow tools

There has never been a better time to be an analyst, but we’re still not very good at this.

Analyzing Your Mailchimp Data, Part 1: Measuring Email Marketing Performance

Used by 10MM companies to send over 600MM emails per day, it’s hard to avoid running into Mailchimp if you have an email account. And, because email marketing continues to be the highest-converting…

Building a Mature Analytics Workflow

Over the past year, I and the folks at RJMetrics have had the opportunity to observe, and participate in, a significant evolution of the analytics ecosystem. The center of gravity in mature analytics organizations has shifted away from proprietary, end-to-end tools…

It’s Time for Open Source Analytics

When a software engineer starts on a new project, her first step is almost always to survey the ecosystem of open source software that exists in the problem space.