More Than Numbers

Making complex SQL simple

With exploding cells, your most complex SQL query or model just got a whole lot simpler. TL;DR: The status-quo Whether you're a data engineer trying to understand a complex data model, or an analyst trying to make sense of a heavily-nested SQL query, your approach probably involves the same

Product Updates

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

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. However, there are significant challenges using Looker to deliver the type of rapid, exploratory analysis coveted by top data teams today. As we

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. As the 2020s are

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. He recently sat with Count Chief Evangelist Mico Yuk to share their journey towards a strong data-led culture at Omnipresent,

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

Opinion

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.

Opinion

Data trends to watch in 2023

What can we expect to see in 2023?

The 2022 year in review

In February I (attempted) to predict the data trends of 2022 [https://blog.count.co/how-data-analytics-will-change-in-2022/]. Now that 2022 is rapidly coming to a close, it's time to see just how well those predictions fared. My Predictions Graded Going for a very American A-F grading scale in which A is

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 [https:

Where does Count fit in your stack?

When people describe Count, they typically do so in terms of familiar functionality: While those descriptions are helpful (and entertaining) they are less effective in articulating what you actually do with this feature mash-up, and how it works in combination with other tools in your data stack. Count and the

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…

Opinion

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’.

Product Updates

Combine knowledge. Miro → Count

Copy from Miro, paste into Count. Simple 👍

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

Customer Spotlight

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.’

Company Updates

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. PRESS RELEASE: London, UK, September 22, 2022 - Count [https://count.co/

Opinion

Bye-bye notebooks. Hello, canvas.

Why we believe the future of analytics involves two dimensions, a load of sticky notes and a sledgehammer.

Customer Spotlight

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."

Opinion

Dashboards: The ad-hoc generating machine

Here we thought dashboards were dead.

Customer Spotlight

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!”

Opinion

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? We created a 21-page guide to help you decide when it's time for you to focus on the Last Mile of Analytics.