A weekly book-club companion to the book Practical Data Modeling, working through its chapters with concrete examples such as support tickets across channels and fan-out in joins. Each issue explains a core modeling idea, like grain, entities and identifiers, and poses questions for discussion.
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A BI practitioner's blog-style newsletter covering modern analytics architecture, with hands-on walkthroughs of Tableau composable data sources, Tableau's MCP server with Claude, and AI-assisted tools like Golden Analytics. Readers get practical setup guidance and data modelling advice using a recurring bookshop dataset.
Timo Dechau writes first-person deep dives on product analytics, event data, data modeling and metric trees, drawing on his consulting experience. Issues mix practical lessons on approaching analytics projects with reflections on strategy and running an independent data business.
Tutorials on applying system design principles like modularity to SQL and data modeling, with hands-on refactoring examples using DuckDB and real dbt code. Readers get practical, step-by-step guidance on making SQL more readable, maintainable and reusable.
A tutorial series called The Modeling Room that teaches beginners data warehouse dimensional modeling through modelstorming. Each issue covers one lesson with a prerequisite, learning objective, artifact and step-by-step plan, such as historic attribute values and reusing a date dimension.
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