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Why Analytics is a Lose Lose Game

It's for the birds

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Daniel Beach
May 13, 2024
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Spent any time in and around data and data teams have you? Moved around yourself from job to job have you? Then you will know without a shadow of a doubt that Analysts, Analytics Engineers, Report Developers, and Business intelligence folk by far are the ones to be pitted most.

They have a hard life.

Data Engineers have it bad, but folks working with analytics every day have it far worse.

It’s funny, you would think after decades of reports being written in everything from SSRS and SAP to Tableau and Looker, that things would have improved and changed for those developing analytics. But it hasn’t … like at all. Not even a bit.

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