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Product @hyperquery, the unified platform for analytics. Author of whale, pylift. ex: @airbnb, @wayfair, @mit, @harvard.
Oct 11, 2022 9 tweets 2 min read
I was asked a disheartening question the other day:

"What do analytics teams actually do? Just make dashboards?"

And I realized this must be what a lot of folks think. So I thought I'd lay it out explicitly and correct some misconceptions along the way. The north star of analytics is quite simple:

Drive business value through data analysis.

And there are three kinds of workflows that make this happen.