Thread by @rmoff

Big strategic decisions that a data team helps a company make #coalesceConf

Although… you can give all the data you want and sometimes it'll still get ignored

"Shout out Indiana Jones…Fuck the Nazis" #coalesceConf

Data teams should be modelling companies similar to how @paulkrugman modelled the economy
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What is an Operational model? #coalesceConf

Now citing @josh_wills (with his impressive hat) and examples of operational models that he's discussed

Operational model for facebook. It's decomposable and each metric can have an entire team dedicated to it
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Same for Slack and Snowflake #coalesceConf

You can have secondary models that relate to the main one, driving individual metrics #coalesceConf

Now citing @g_xing and operational models at Lyft. Low-margin business, how do you make decisions?
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Is this the same thing that finance teams do in Excel? Basically… yes 😆 #coalesceConf

This is the holy grail of what we should be doing, working on models that describe how the business works. It's a team effort, it cannot be done by the data team on their own. #coalesceConf

What are the best metrics for… whatever…
This is putting the cart before the horse. Don't chase the metrics of other businesses. #coalesceConf

Decide the metrics based on how the business works, don't build the business around the metrics. To do so would be inflicting more than a mere flesh wound… #coalesceConf

Listening to @bennstancil is enlighting, entertaining, educational…and a wee bit exhausting 😅
I love how much work goes into his talks, with the delivery and slides meshing perfectly. A+++ would definitely listen again. @coalesceconf #dbtCoalesce kickof

@bennstancil @coalesceconf Benn's slides with useful speaker notes are online here: docs.google.com/presentation/d…