Beyond (Data) Contracts: A Response to Benn Stancil
September 23, 2022 § Leave a comment
This essay by Benn Stancil provoked me so deeply my intended “comment” evolved into a full-fledged blog post:
Fine, let’s talk about data contracts
Benn’s “rant” feels profound on so many levels, especially if I can assume he’s captured the zeitgeist of our industry as accurately as he usually does.
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September 5, 2021 § 1 Comment
aka Quilt Data Hub or Lightdash 2.0?
Challenge
Can I evangelize
a corporate data platform
by just emailing out reports
with sufficiently smart URLs?
Rationale
I don’t have the power
to pull others onto a new platform.
But I can push useful data to others
in a way that inspires them to participate more directly with the platform
Proposal
Replace friendly Salesforce Reports and powerful NetSuite Saved Searches with a unified interface for viewing, editing, sharing, and managing:
- versioned reports
- personalized alerts
- variant analyses
that are delivered via self-contained emails that also onboard people into greater use of the platform
Definitions
Friendly
- Browseable
- Drag and Drop
- Live previews
Powerful
- Complex formulas
- Scaleable notifications
- Easy joins and relabeling
Motivation
The main value of Quilt to my business
is as a point of leverage
to shift the culture of communication
from “zombie data” in tables
to “smart reports” in a repository
iHack, therefore iBlog 