Lightdash gives you two powerful ways to control what data your users see: filters and parameters.On the surface, they can look very similar. Both can narrow down results and help people focus on the right slice of data. But parameters aren’t just another kind of filter. They unlock flexibility, reusability, and customisation that filters alone […]
I hate chasing down why that dashboard looks off. You hate chasing down why that dashboard looks off. It always starts the same way: a stakeholder pings with a screenshot, something looks broken, and you find yourself deep in someone else’s query trying to track down what changed, when, and why. Meanwhile, trust in your
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Lightdash now offers Custom Charts, enabling more advanced and customizable visualizations using the powerful Vega-Lite library. This unlocks the potential to go beyond standard chart types, letting you create visualizations like heatmaps, box plots, maps, and more. What is Vega-Lite? Vega-Lite is a high-level grammar of interactive graphics, built on top of the lower-level Vega
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Have you ever hit “merge” on a dbt pull request and just hope it doesn’t break everything downstream? Yeah, us too. That slight internal panic—“please don’t wreck any dashboards”—is all too familiar. Now there’s a much better way to avoid dashboard chaos: Preview Projects from GitHub Branches. This capability fundamentally changes how you can develop
Analytics teams often struggle to keep everyone aligned. Insights get stuck in dashboards, emails go unanswered, and decisions stall while people wait for data. Lightdash, an open-source analytics tool built for the modern data stack, changes that. Its Slack integration brings insights directly into your team’s conversations. Key Features of the Lightdash Slack Integration 1.
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Maintaining a clean and standardized semantic layer is essential in modern analytics. Lightdash’s dbt Write-Back streamlines this process by enabling analysts to develop models, metrics, and dimensions directly within Lightdash and write them back to their dbt project. With Git-based source control, teams can ensure their business logic remains consistent, reusable, and version-controlled. Achieving a
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Self-serve analytics tools empower non-technical users by giving them direct access to data, enabling operational directors, sales leaders, and others to assess performance and make informed decisions. Traditional centralized data teams often face bottlenecks due to numerous analytics requests for reports and automation. To address this, modern data teams are adopting a decentralized model, where
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Data silos are the silent killers of collaboration. They slow down decisions, frustrate teams, and leave stakeholders in the dark. Marketing can’t find campaign performance data, finance is stuck chasing budget figures, and product managers are left guessing about user engagement. Lightdash’s Google Sheets data integration flips the script. It connects your teams with a
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Organizing a business intelligence stack goes beyond pipelines and dashboards. It requires clear, accessible documentation. Tools like Lightdash, integrated with DBT, make this possible by combining robust ETL processes with a documented semantic layer. This ensures your data is understandable and actionable. In this post, we explore the concept of a semantic layer, its role
Lightdash is an open-source analytics platform licensed under MIT, designed for teams looking to provide self-service reporting to their organization. Positioning itself as an open-source alternative to Looker, Lightdash allows users to explore, visualize, and report on data without advanced technical knowledge. It’s especially popular for modern data environments due to its direct database connectivity
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