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A data notebook buyer's guide

So you’ve decided you’re ready to take the plunge into a data notebook. It can be easy to get lost in the data-notebook hype and ever-increasing options available to you, making it difficult to choose what’s really best for you and your team.
Taylor Brownlow
September 6, 2023
March 19, 2024
4 min read
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The Data Professional’s Cheat Sheet for Working with Stakeholders

Generating impact means convincing the people you work with that the work you do has value for them or their business. Impact is a combination of perception and results.
October 2, 2023
March 19, 2024
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How we made data modeling multiplayer

Today we’re excited to announce the launch of our dbt Core™ integration, making Count the most collaborative way to build data models.
November 23, 2023
March 19, 2024
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The Ultimate SQL Guide

Understanding SQL remains the best way to work with data in our organizations. For a stakeholder, just being able to read and understand SQL queries can completely change how they work. Instead of only working with static, flat dashboards, they can work more closely with the data team, ask more probing questions and be a smarter consumer of the data they do receive.
June 12, 2023
March 19, 2024
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The Power of Radical Transparency

How to turn your data team into problem-solving ninjas.
July 19, 2023
March 18, 2024
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Why a dashboard isn't enough

The primary way data is consumed in organizations is through dashboards. And while dashboards are great for certain things, like informing you of last month’s churn rate, they fall shockingly short when you have to work out why it went up by so much, and more critically, what you’re going to do about it.
August 23, 2023
March 19, 2024
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Count + dbt: Making your data models radically transparent

Our new dbt integration makes it easier than ever to work with your data models.
May 17, 2023
March 18, 2024
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Demystifying dbt models at scale

How the Data Engineering team at The Stable, part of Accenture Song, uses the Count canvas to bring transparency to their pipeline and deliver outputs 3x faster.
May 24, 2023
March 18, 2024
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The ultimate guide to dbt

Today we released the ultimate guide to dbt - a one-stop-shop for anyone hoping to learn what the dbt hype is about, pick up some curated tips from experts, or anything in between.
May 17, 2023
March 19, 2024
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Why people don't trust your numbers and what you can do about it

"Those numbers aren't right." I’m not sure there is another phrase capable of eliciting as much rage, exasperation, and anxiety from a data person as this one.
May 2, 2023
March 18, 2024
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Making complex SQL simple

With exploding cells, your most complex SQL query or model just got a whole lot simpler.
March 20, 2023
March 19, 2024
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The ultimate guide to hiring your data team

The one-stop shop for all your data hiring needs. Today we launched the ultimate guide to hiring your data team - a labor of love, research, and collaboration to bring together the best insights and wisdom around hiring a great data team.
April 7, 2023
March 19, 2024
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How we evolved our query architecture with DuckDB

A deep dive into how we used DuckDB to take our browser-first query architecture to the next level.
April 21, 2023
March 18, 2024
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Snowflake Telemetry in Count

Regardless of where your database resides, keeping track of what is happening in the database has long been a challenge for most database administrators, database developers, and business intelligence architects. Databases grow and change over time, which led to the rise of INFORMATION_SCHEMA as part of the ANSI SQL Standard first introduced in SQL-92.
January 13, 2023
March 19, 2024
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Introducing: Alerts

Get your data to the right people at the right time. When speaking to a Head of Data a few years ago, she used a phrase I've been in love with ever since: dashboard detritus. She was referring to the festering heap of unused and unloved dashboards, reports, and ad-hoc analyses that had been slowly accumulating on her team.
March 7, 2023
March 19, 2024
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Count vs Tableau

Tableau has been the defacto analytics front end for people looking to deliver beautiful dashboards for over a decade, and for good reason. However, many feel it’s become overly complex and cumbersome for the type of rapid, exploratory analysis favored by top data teams today.
February 22, 2023
March 19, 2024
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Count vs Looker

Google’s Looker is one of the stalwarts of the analytics space, providing functional dashboards and drag-and-drop self-service on high quality data models for over a decade.
March 5, 2023
March 19, 2024
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Transform Data Interviews with Count’s Canvas

Technical interviews in data can be a bit hit or miss. But as Count advocate Emily explains with the right tool they can become something brilliant.
January 3, 2023
March 18, 2024
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Safe, flexible analytics at Omnipresent with Count

Phillip van Blerk is the passionate Head of Data and Analytics at Omnipresent, a series B startup that offers compliance, payroll and benefits options to hire people anywhere on Earth.
January 26, 2023
March 19, 2024
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Data trends to watch in 2023

What can we expect to see in 2023?
December 28, 2022
March 18, 2024
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The dark art of gathering requirements

Gathering requirements for a data project is both painful and essential. But there are ways to make it easier…
November 16, 2022
March 18, 2024
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How to build a Canvas - a data analyst perspective

Building a canvas can seem easy enough, but like everything in the world of data, it can quickly get out of hand. Bouncing between ideas, changing data and shifting requirements can derail any project. Let’s make your next canvas a success with this step-by-step guide based on an actual marketing funnel I built.
October 4, 2022
March 19, 2024
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Where does Count fit in your stack?

When people describe Count, they typically do so in terms of familiar functionality:
November 22, 2022
March 19, 2024
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Heuristics: the power of folklore in decision-making

Long before I got into data, I had another love. One I've never been able to let go of. Like data, it satisfied my need to have things ordered and was focused on using that organization to uncover patterns and influence change. This was the field of Systems Engineering.
November 30, 2022
March 19, 2024
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User onboarding flow canvas template

Almost every business operation can be represented as a process flow. Often these flows are far from simple and it can be very difficult to clearly present their performance as a dashboard or notebook.
September 23, 2022
March 18, 2024
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Going deeper into startup metrics

‘We’ve done 150 growth scanners over the years, and the last 20 are in canvas. We’ve been doing it for years but we weren’t able to turn it into a really useful product until we had the canvas. The sharing at the canvas level, the talking back and forth - it just changed the game for us.’
September 28, 2022
March 18, 2024
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Finding data clarity at a fast-growing fintech

"When I first started you couldn’t trust anything. We had a mess of queries and Tableau dashboards that disagreed with one another."
September 5, 2022
March 18, 2024
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Website analytics canvas template

Dashboards have their place but when you’re confronted with just a wall or numbers and charts it can be pretty confusing because all the context behind what the numbers actually stand for is lost.
September 23, 2022
March 18, 2024
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Dashboards: The ad-hoc generating machine

Here we thought dashboards were dead.
Ryan Dolley
August 31, 2022
March 21, 2024
5 min read
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Combine knowledge. Miro → Count

Copy from Miro, paste into Count. Simple 👍
Taylor Brownlow
October 27, 2022
March 21, 2024
3 min read
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Keep Calm and Collaborate: Creating a fun, data culture that works

“Always remember who this is for. If they don’t understand your data work, you might as well not do it!”
April 25, 2022
March 18, 2024
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Data Literacy hack: Creating psychological safe zones

In this article, I am going to walk through a playbook for how to host a robust and healthy data conversation in your organization, and create something called a ‘Psychological Safe Zone’.
November 2, 2022
March 18, 2024
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The Last Mile of Analytics can make or break your startup

There is no shortage of challenges vying for the attention of our data teams. So how do you decide what to focus on?\nWe created a 21-page guide to help you decide when it's time for you to focus on the Last Mile of Analytics.
Taylor Brownlow
March 15, 2022
March 21, 2024
5 min read
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The dark side of good decision making

A journey to discover what it takes to make good decisions beyond using data.
Taylor Brownlow
February 14, 2022
March 21, 2024
5 min read
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Count unveils breakthrough tool for data analytics and collaboration

Count releases a hyper-collaborative data platform to turn the data analytics workflow into a fun, creative journey for the whole team to reach data-driven decisions faster. The launch comes on the heels of a $5.2M seed raise.
Taylor Brownlow
September 23, 2022
March 21, 2024
3 min read
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Bye-bye notebooks. Hello, canvas.

Why we believe the future of analytics involves two dimensions, a load of sticky notes and a sledgehammer.
Taylor Brownlow
September 7, 2022
March 21, 2024
10 min read
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10 Hot 🔥 Data & Analytics Trends to Watch in 2022

All the cool kids are late to the party, right?
Taylor Brownlow
February 21, 2022
March 21, 2024
8 min read
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Why your BI tool isn't driving decisions

How shifting our attention to where and how decisions are made can help change that.
Taylor Brownlow
January 19, 2022
March 21, 2024
4 min read
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Take your SQL from Good to Great: Part 4

Everyone's favorite SQL cheat code.
Taylor Brownlow
November 29, 2021
March 21, 2024
5 min read
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Data tools need to change, including ours

Why we're going back into private beta
Taylor Brownlow
December 16, 2021
March 21, 2024
2 min read
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Your Organization's First Notebooks

How to introduce BI notebooks into your organization.
Taylor Brownlow
December 6, 2021
March 21, 2024
3 min read
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How to make agile actually work for analytics

In all the debate about bringing agile to analytics, we may have just missed the point.
Taylor Brownlow
December 8, 2021
March 21, 2024
5 min read
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Take your SQL from Good to Great: Part 5

What can UDFs do for you?
Taylor Brownlow
November 29, 2021
March 21, 2024
6 min read
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Numbers Are No Longer Enough

To make better decisions, we need data tools that communicate more than just numbers.
Taylor Brownlow
December 6, 2021
March 19, 2024
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Take your SQL from Good to Great: Part 1

WITH CTEs, you can go far.
Taylor Brownlow
November 29, 2021
March 21, 2024
4 min read
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Take your SQL from Good to Great: Part 3

Time to join the JOIN movement
Taylor Brownlow
November 29, 2021
March 21, 2024
5 min read
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Take your SQL from Good to Great: Part 2

Not always there when you call, but always on time.
Taylor Brownlow
November 29, 2021
March 21, 2024
5 min read
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The Tableau Era is Over

What will the next era in data look like?
Taylor Brownlow
November 29, 2021
March 21, 2024
5 min read
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What Will “Analyst 2.0” Look Like?

The newest generation of analysts is about to change the game.
Taylor Brownlow
November 29, 2021
March 21, 2024
5 min read
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Dashboards are Dead

Dashboards have been the primary weapon of choice for distributing data over the last few decades, but they aren’t the end of the story. To increasingly democratize access to data we need to think again, and the answer may be closer than you think!
Taylor Brownlow
November 29, 2021
March 19, 2024
7 min read
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How to Make Sure Your Analysis Actually Gets Used

How to keep the pirates at bay.
Taylor Brownlow
November 29, 2021
March 21, 2024
6 min read
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The Analytical Workflow is Broken

A case for modern tools in a modern age.
Taylor Brownlow
November 29, 2021
March 19, 2024
4 min read
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Why the last mile of analytics matters

The last mile of analytics can take our state-of-the-art data stack and actually make it useful. Find out how.
Taylor Brownlow
November 29, 2021
March 21, 2024
5 min read
Taylor Brownlow
January 25, 2024
12 min read
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