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Everyone in BI knows the feeling: you ship a dashboard, nobody comments, and you assume it's fine. Then three months later you find out the sales team...
Somewhere in your company's Slack, there's a thread from three months ago. Someone asked how to handle a slowly changing dimension, and one person rep...
You just got promoted. Or you moved to a company that promised 'current BI' and instead handed you a ten-year-old SQL Server instance and a folder of ...
Maria's job title said "Business Intelligence Analyst." Her actual work? Building dashboards for inventory managers, running ad-hoc SQL quer...
A mid-sized logistics company spent six weeks building a perfect dashboard. Clean visuals. Drill-downs. Real-time data. The executive team gave it a g...
Every few months, another hot take lands on LinkedIn: “Specialists earn 30% more.” Or “Generalists are the future.” And if you're a BI professional—or...
Six months into a BI analyst job at a midsize retailer, Maria felt like a spreadsheet dispenser. She pulled the same sales-by-region reports, answered...
A few months ago, a Speedlyx user posted a question that seemed naive: 'Do most BI jobs actually get listed, or am I looking in the wrong places?' Wit...
You open LinkedIn. Another post raving about a dashboard tool that renders in 200 milliseconds. Your current tool takes two seconds. You feel behind. ...
You have been in BI for a few years. Maybe you are a dashboard wizard, a data modeler, or the person everyone asks when the numbers do not sum. And no...
Every BI analyst I've talked to who tried to move into decision science hit a wall. Not the technical wall—though that exists—but a wall of expectatio...
The fork shows up in the quiet moments. Maybe you just built a dbt model that cut pipeline runtime by 40% — and your boss says, "Great, now can you pr...