# Articles

A blog about data, tools, and operating collaborative high performance cultures.

## Metric Trees, Context Graphs and Decision Traces

Mar 16, 2026  
Looking a bit beyond the smart-sounding buzzwords

## Sorry, Metric Cubes are Alive, Well and Important

Feb 26, 2026  
Making the case that the concept of cubes is alive, well and more important than ever.

## Metric Trees are Computable Data Models

Feb 10, 2026  
Metric trees are not visuals but deep, rich computable data models.

## Automating a Common Pattern: Mix-Shift Analysis

Jan 14, 2026  
Diving deep into a common and tedious analysis, and the power of automating it

## Business Reviews Cannot be a Collection of Dashboards

Dec 28, 2025  
It's not productive for business reviews to be driven by a collection of dashboards

## Are Data Analysts Actually an Anti-Pattern?

Dec 15, 2025  
Examining a touchy subject - do we truly need data analysts?

## Intelligent Decision-Making at Scale is the New Constraint

Nov 25, 2025  
Exploring how constraints are shifting within data platforms as we make progress

## Potential Issues with Metrics-Obsessed Cultures

Nov 11, 2025  
Examining issues that arise from metrics-driven cultures and possible remediations

## In Defense of Kimball-style Metric Cubes

Oct 27, 2025  
Arguing that metric cubes help with performant data products and UX

## Four Distinct Personas in the Data Domain

Oct 7, 2025  
The data domain is shaped by personas with differing skills and needs

## Strong and Weak Data and Finance Teams

Sep 25, 2025  
The key differences between strong and weak data and finance team cultures

## How the Metric Trees Framework will Revolutionize BI

Sep 10, 2025  
Examining how metric trees enable a new a world of automation