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Lightdash Emerges to ‘Fix’ The Data Analyst Workflow

The company behind Lightdash, a new open source data analytics and exploration tool designed around dbt and frequently compared to Looker, today announced a seed round of funding worth $8.4 million as well as the launch Read more…

What Is An Analytics Engineer and When Do You Need One?

A new persona is starting to make the rounds in the big data field. It’s called an analytics engineer, and depending on your data workflow and the size of your team, it could help you speed up your advanced analytics e Read more…

ThoughtSpot Looks to the Future of Analytics

ThoughtSpot executives have a firm grasp on where they sit in the recent history of business intelligence and analytic tools, being part of the so-called third generation of products. While predicting the future is a not Read more…

ThoughtSpot Prepares for Next Decade of Data

ThoughtSpot turns 10 next month, a birthday that seems at odds with the enormous changes the data analytics company has lived through the past three years. Here at its Beyond 2022 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, Thought Read more…

Meet 2022 Datanami Person to Watch Tristan Handy

When it comes to data transformation in the modern data stack, few products have garnered as much interest as Data Building Tool (dbt), the open source, SQL-based command line tool enjoyed by millions of users. As the CE Read more…

dbt Seeks to Modernize the Data Experience with Series D

Last week, dbt Labs announced a $222 million Series D round at a $4.2 billion valuation. The analytics engineering company (formerly called Fishtown Analytics) is known for its open source data build tool, or dbt. The Read more…

dbt Rides Wave of Modern, Cloud-Based ETL to New Heights

The explosion of data analytics on the cloud has been good for Fishtown Analytics, the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based company that was behind the popular open source data built tool, or dbt. Now the company is looking Read more…