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

The Analytics Engineering Podcast

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Is There a Semantic Layer?

Airbnb is one of a small number of companies that started to live in the semantic world several years ago. Nick, you worked at Airbnb's growth team as a data scientist. You both used Airbnb's version of, would it be fair to call that a semantic layer? Would you call it a metrics tool? Yeah. Starting in 2014, we were working on metrics tooling. And eventually, definitely became a semantic.

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