Category: Data

  • The most popular BI tools for Fintechs in 2024

    The most popular BI tools for Fintechs in 2024

    A recent survey of product leaders in the Fintech Guild shows that Metabase is the most popular BI tool for Fintechs in 2024, followed by Looker, Tableau, Sigma, Omni and Mode Analytics. Metabase: Open-source and Budget-friendly With an open source code base, Metabase has been able to reach feature-parity with more established players like Looker…

  • Version control for BigQuery

    Version control is an essential tool for data teams when creating tables and data sets for consumption by other people and teams. While a single data analyst might make to without one, as soon as you have a data team, version control is a key tool to enable collaboration and active participation of all team…

  • Dashboarding best practices

    The dashboard is where most end users will consume the data. Assuming you already have accurate, timely and comprehensive data, the job of designing a dashboard comes down to selecting the right metrics and presenting them in a clear manner. Before you start, ask yourself the following: A modern data organisation typically aims to make…

  • The Affordable Data Infrastructure Stack

    The Affordable Data Infrastructure Stack

    The goal of your data infrastructure is to enable data-driven decision making and give everyone access to accurate, comprehensive and timely data, while keeping things compliant. This particular stack is optimised for reporting and analytics, while keeping costs low. The basic layer cake of the data infrastructure stack looks like this: Data sources Data sources…