The Decision Ledger

Notes on data, decisions, and the business in between.

Field-tested thinking on analytics as a business discipline: dashboards that change meetings, data quality you can book, metrics with ancestry, forecasts that admit uncertainty, and analytics spend appraised like any other investment.

KPI Trees: Connecting Every Metric to the Business Model

A method for turning a wall of metrics into a driver model the whole team can steer by.

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Star Schemas and DAX That Scale: Data Modeling for Power BI

Why every slow, contradictory Power BI report traces back to the model, and how to build one that lasts.

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The Hidden Cost of Dirty Data: Treating Data Quality as a P&L Line Item

How to put a shilling value on bad data, and the reconciliation discipline that recovers it.

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SQL Patterns Every Working Analyst Should Own

The seven SQL patterns that do most of the heavy lifting in real analytical work.

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