Build More Analyses, Build Less Dashboards

Why we should move to a world where analyses are the default first step

It’s been nearly 2 years since Seth Rosen’s trashboard tweet, and yet the trashboard epidemic is still quite real. We still encounter companies that are curiously happy with having thousands of dashboards, their analysts left to spelunk deep caverns of ad hoc requests with naught but an IDE.

There are good intentions all around, of course — ad hoc work can be painful, and an …

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