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What happens in the warehouse, stays in the warehouse. Or does it?

Data analysts are used to getting requests for data in Excel. It’s almost universally known – If you send someone a dashboard, they’ll ask for it in Excel.  But there’s a new request in town – “Can I get this data in Salesforce, and Hubspot, and Mailchimp, and Intercom, and….” Marketing, sales, and operations teams …

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An analytics engineer is really just a pissed off data analyst

Sitting through dbt Coalesce conference this week, my biggest takeaway is that data is less trustworthy than ever and people are fired up about it. Often times, an analytics engineer is really just a pissed off analyst who has the tools and motivation to make things better for everyone else. The momentum around dbt is …

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Build a modern data analytics stack from scratch in under an hour

The infrastructure of a modern analytics stack is now the easiest part. 5, 10, or 15 years ago deploying an analytics stack was a huge investment of time and resources. Not anymore. In this video, we set up a modern analytics from scratch in under an hour. We start from the very beginning. We signup …

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Focus Areas: Custom Apps with Looker and dbt Modeling

We thought it was a good time for a brief update on Hashpath.  In addition to focusing on traditional BI consulting, we are seeing strong growth in our other area of speciality, namely customer-facing analytics with our White Label Data product.  Our bets on Looker and dbt have been paying off, with strong enthusiasm for …

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