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dbt Labs + Transform Join Forces on Metrics (w/ Nick Handel + Drew Banin)

The Analytics Engineering Podcast

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Why You Don't Want to Write Query on Top of Factors in a BI Tool

You have 100 dimensions on a single metric isn't representing all the possible combinations that somebody might want to slice by. If there's low cardinality, it doesn't matter that much from a number of rows perspective. But now you have a lot of different BI tools and other places you access data with more complicated metrics. And then controlling that and testing your assumptions becomes really important.

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