Why Metrics Are Even More Valuable Than You Think They Are

Creating / migrating metric metadata to dbt can be a pain, because the level of underlying data knowledge required to create the YAML files properly. You might have found yourself wondering, “is this worth it just to standardize metric definitions?”. This talk will tell you why it is definitely worth it… because the functionality you unlock goes beyond just standard metric definitions. Adopting the dbt standard metric syntax unlocks three additional possibilities for your data:

1. Automated time-aware metric calculations

2. Dynamic drill downs and segmentation to empower slice and dice analysis

3. Self-service dynamic transforms using templated SQL