Metadata
- Author: Benn Stancil
- Full Title:: Everything Is Still BI
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/everything-is-still-bi
- Finished date:: 2024-05-24
Highlights
Today, you might say that analytics engineering is going to be sexiest job of the 21st century; that centralized data platforms like Snowflake will make analytics more accessible; that using AI for development gives you an economic edge over traditional software vendors; that you’re riding a strong trend towards democratization of generative AI. There’s a new gold rush, and you’re selling shovels. (View Highlight)
Better dashboards, more visualization types, and easier ways to access data were, quite literally, our top feature requests too. (View Highlight)
In other words, no matter when a data product was created or what its first features were, it will inevitably collapse into the same singularity: Database connectors; a code-based query editor; a code-free query builder; lots of charts; dashboards; self-serve. (View Highlight)
These people are successful for a far more accessible reason: They’re stubborn. Most of their ideas weren’t all that new or profound. Instead, they were uniquely insistent on what they wanted to build, and uniquely unrelenting in building that thing. (View Highlight)