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Ask HN: How do you run your analytics teams?

1 points by tixocloud ↗ HN
Debating about the merits of incorporating agile practices into how we run our analytics projects.

Are there any other best practices you can share? We're also looking into developing a datamart for ourselves to speed up our queries as opposed to leveraging the enterprise-wide data warehouse.

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leff_f
My team is doing 2 weeks sprints for DW/analytics development with per feature branching (on large implementations) In terms of speeding up queries - we are using "flat table" model with Column Store on top of it, instead of Kimball approach. This provides good speed and MUCH simpler development. Hope this helps!
tixocloud
Flat table model eh? Could you describe more without revealing any secrets?
leff_f
Secrets? Overrated! :) Let's chat! ln [at] datateam . ca