🔍 Analysts want control. Business teams want freedom. So how do you build a data culture where both sides win? In this episode, Vadym and Ruslan dive into the core tension between governance and self-service, revealing practical ways to move beyond chaos and towards clarity.

What you’ll learn:
🧠 Why the “control vs. collaboration” conflict is so common in analytics
📊 How semantic layers and data marts help scale decision-making
📉 What to do when ad hoc requests overwhelm your data team
🔧 Tools and workflows to build trust across technical and business users
📢 The 5 must-follow habits for aligned, accountable analytics teams

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🔍 Tired of sticky-note SQL and fragile dashboards? In this episode, Vadym and Helen dig into version control in analytics – why treating your SQL like code matters, how to avoid "final_FINAL" disasters, and what real-world teams are doing to keep their data trustworthy.

🛠 What you’ll learn:

• Why version control is critical for analytics teams
• Real-world mistakes caused by missing change history
• How to implement lightweight versioning with tools like Git and dbt
• Folder structure, naming tips, and archiving best practices
• A quick tour of helpful tools – from GitHub to Notion

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🤖 What if you could make smarter decisions without writing a single line of SQL? In this episode, Vadym and Ruslan explore how augmented analytics is transforming how teams interact with data, making insights faster, easier, and more intuitive for everyone, not just analysts.

🛠 What you’ll learn:

• How “augmented” analytics differs from classic BI tools
• Real-world examples of no-data-team teams winning with AI
• The biggest challenges – and how to overcome them
• Where to start – and how to get adoption right
• Tools like Google Dataplex, BigQuery, and beyond

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Ever crashed a warehouse with one query? Or presented a dashboard that made the CMO panic? You’re not alone.

In this episode of The Data Crunch Podcast, Helen joins Vadym to share the real, painful, and hilarious mistakes data analysts make — and the critical lessons behind them. From SQL gone rogue to dashboards that double-cross, these stories will make you laugh, cringe, and maybe check your own reports twice.

You’ll learn:

• How SELECT * can turn into a disaster 💥
• Why dashboards lie (and how to stop them) 📉
• The dangers of silent copy-paste chaos 📋
• What happens when teams misuse VLOOKUP 🔍
• Why even the smartest models go unused 🤖

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🔍 Ever wondered where that metric actually came from? In this episode, Vadym and Ruslan break down data lineage — the essential (but often overlooked) practice of tracing your data’s full journey from source to decision.

Whether you're debugging dashboards, managing compliance, or just trying to build trust in your numbers, this one's for you.

🛠 What you’ll learn:
1️⃣ What data lineage really means — and why it's more than just a buzzword
2️⃣ Real-world use cases and how lineage speeds up debugging and decision-making
3️⃣ How to overcome common challenges like tool chaos and lack of ownership
4️⃣ Practical tips to get started — from automation to team-wide visibility

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🚨 Your dashboards might be lying to you — and you wouldn’t even know it. In this episode, Vadym and Helen get brutally honest about the hidden data quality issues lurking in your reports, pipelines, and culture. They break down the real reason data chaos persists in 2025 — and what your team can actually do to fix it.

🛠 What you’ll learn:
1️⃣ Why data quality problems are cultural, not just technical.
2️⃣ The most common pitfalls: patchwork fixes, no ownership, and silent errors.
3️⃣ How to build a system of trust with automation, standardization, and clear ownership.

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💡 More access to data doesn’t always lead to better decisions — sometimes it creates chaos. In this episode, Vadym and Ruslan unpack the self-service analytics paradox: why giving teams more access can backfire, and how to fix it with the right systems, models, and conversational tools.

Learn how to balance data empowerment with governance, and finally build a self-service setup that actually works.

🎯 What you’ll learn in this episode:
1️⃣ The root causes of the self-service paradox and how to spot it early.
2️⃣ Why semantic data models and conversational UIs are the missing link.
3️⃣ How OWOX BI helps teams replace chaos with clarity — and scale trust in data.

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📊 Ever feel like you're spending more time cleaning your data than actually using it? In this episode, Vadym and Helen dig into one of the most common — and costly — problems in analytics: fragmented, unreliable, and inconsistent data.

Learn why business-ready data is essential for decision-making and how OWOX BI helps teams automate transformations, manage orchestration, and stay in control — all without needing a full data engineering team.

💡 What you’ll learn in this episode:
1️⃣ The key challenges in turning raw data into trusted insights.
2️⃣ How OWOX BI simplifies transformations, orchestration, and scaling analytics.
3️⃣ Why our new JS Data Connectors are a game-changer for analysts and marketers.

🔗 Effortlessly collect data with free OWOX JS Connectors

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