The Tools Empowering 5000 Employees
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Built a self-serve stack that scales from 200 to 5,000 employees: automated connectors and a bring-your-own-data intake UI, ELT on Airbyte into the warehouse, transformations and enforced naming/lineage with dbt, a custom data discovery index, a homegrown data-quality platform on top of DQ, and company-wide Metabase reporting with automated provisioning and dashboard archival. Education comes from an Analytics Academy, ambassadors and embedded analysts, and success is tracked by tool-specific metrics (time-to-access, DBT model creation, report engagement) plus qualitative feedback.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Scaling self-serve analytics
- 2:49Self-serve analytics defined
- 5:16Empower employees with tools
- 6:40User categories for analytics
- 7:45Single source of truth
- 10:58Self-serve analytics suite
- 12:43Data intake and transformation
- 15:33Data discovery and trust
- 17:41Metabase automation reports
- 20:12Education for data culture
- 23:05Hybrid analytics teams
- 26:16ML limits in analytics
- 28:22Measuring analytics success
- 31:53User feedback and champions
- 32:37Scaling takeaways
- 33:40Q&A
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