Video of his cinematic entrance to the pitching mound goes viral.

Data is not the level ground that we act like it is.

The world is full of great analysts. Will we have the courage to go looking for them?

The thin line between being analytical and being afraid.

Databricks, Snowflake, and the end of an overhyped era.

How a revolution comes together. Or doesn’t.

Our only job should be to make people more decisive.

How to escape our dashboard rat race, learn from data, and love the job again.

The case for better business models.

The job nobody wanted is now the job we can’t get enough of.

We talk a lot about what data can borrow from software engineering. But on the biggest issue of all, the technology industry has a lot to learn from the analytics community.

A better way to make daily decisions is already here—just not at work.

Reverse the ETL timeline.

It’s not the App Store. It’s the iPhone.

The culture we build is the culture we buy.

We should redefine the role of the chief data officer. For our companies, for our careers, and for ourselves.

Two posts in the analytics community have been bouncing around in my head for the past few weeks. They hit on something important.

A note from our founders on how Mode’s journey led to an acquisition by ThoughtSpot.

It has the potential to be one of the data industry’s biggest perks—and its highest walls.

On dismantling data's ship of Theseus.

Some gut-based judgements on the effectiveness of data.

How an integration between Looker and Tableau fundamentally alters the data landscape.

For sale: data company, worn out.

SaaS giveth, and SaaS can taketh away.

We can’t build something unless we know what it is.

It's a sandwich, a floppy disk, and an iPhone.

It’s what the people want.

Replace boot camps with slide decks.

Animating an abstract world is hard, valuable, and worthy of celebration.

I went looking for the gospel, and lost my religion.

I mean, no, surely not. But maybe?

Let the good times roll, for as long as they last.

How a data warehouse could become a data platform—and an organizational brain.

The thing about a single pane of glass is that there can only be one pane of glass. Plus, survey results!

Climate change comes for us all.

Are we analyst, or are we melon?

Carving up tools with a no-code cleaver.

Sorting through the chaos in the consumption layer.

There's no direct path from a business question to a useful query.

in board call and revenue looks off, pls advise asap

What am I doing here?

This is not a rhetorical question.

We can talk about the tools, we can talk about the work, or we can take the third option.

Sometimes, there’s no math to do.

The data ecosystem is booming. The data economy has some things to figure out.

Steal this writing process, and join me on the dance floor.