Serving data – four key topics
Serving data well is a balancing act. You should consider what is best for your organization, create a strategy, and constantly see how these principles apply to different features and tools.
In this section, we will discuss four topics that always arise in different data teams:
- Self-serving analytics and report factories
- Interactive and static reports
- Actionable and vanity metrics
- Reusability and bespoke processes
Self-serving analytics and report factories
Data tools were difficult to learn in the past, and analyzing data required technical prowess. The most common setup was to hire data professionals to deploy use cases for the rest of the organization. These teams worked on a request-by-request basis. Having a small team made it easier to reuse assets, ensure one single source of truth, stay compliant, and keep a strict guard on any data process.
For the end users, however, this was less than ideal. They...
