You may have heard the hype about integrating Google Search Console and Google BigQuery using the new Bulk Export feature. If you’re like me, you recognize the power of analyzing SEO data with SQL or the BI tool of your choice (you’ve probably heard of Looker and Looker Studio.) Or you might be thinking to …
Google Search Console Bulk Export for BigQuery: The Complete Guide Read More »
I’ve had a few SEO consulting projects lately that have given me a chance to work with a lot more keywords than anybody should be working within a spreadsheet. When I come across these types of projects, I use the same workflow: bring all the data into a database and run the analyses in SQL. …
SEO Analytics in SQL for Beginners: A step-by-step tutorial Read More »
The SQL LISTAGG function in Snowflake or Redshift (or STRING_AGG in BigQuery) are aggregation functions that condense textual data into easy-to-view reports. Similar to other aggregation functions (like SUM or MAX), these functions aggregate data according to the column names in a GROUP BY clause. This is a common pattern for rolling up a column …
A better way to LISTAGG in Google Sheets (with Pivot Tables) Read More »
Like many data geeks, Google Analytics was the thing that first sparked my curiosity. Last week, Census released our Google Analytics integration. I could write a long list of game-changing applications for creating custom dimensions in Google Analytics from data in a Snoflake data warehouse but I’ve been swirling around one that I find particularly interesting. Here’s what …
Writing Custom Dimension to Google Analytics from Snowflake DB Read More »
In the first post in the Minimum Viable Data Stack series, we set up a process to start using SQL to analyze CSV data. We set up a Postgres database instance on a Mac personal computer, uploaded a CSV file, and wrote a query to analyze the data in the CSV file. That’s a good …
Setting up Airbyte ETL: Minimum Viable Data Stack Part II Read More »
“A spreadsheet is just data in single-player mode” Last week I made a mistake. I boldly claimed that “A spreadsheet is just data in single-player mode.” And while I stand by that claim. I didn’t expect to be called to account for it. As it turns out, the post was pretty popular and I think …
From Spreadsheets to SQL: Step One towards the Minimum Viable Data Stack Read More »
As a data analyst, your credibility is as valuable as your analytical skills. And to maintain your credibility, it’s important to be able to answer questions correctly and consistently. That’s why you must be careful to integrate reproducibility into your SQL analyses. This tutorial is going to show you how you can use Redshift User …
Intro to SQL User-Defined Functions: A Redshift UDF Tutorial Read More »
As a digital marketer, I use SQL every single day. And looking back on my career so far, it would be fair (though a bit reductive) to say that I could define my career by two distinct periods: before I learned SQL and after I learned SQL. The two periods are distinct for three main …
Getting Started with SQL for Marketing (with Facebook Ads Example) Read More »
This is part t in the $10k Technical Skills for Digital Marketing Series. Part one introduced the importance of learning client-side technologies and offers a plan to learn Javascript, HTML and CSS for digital marketing. This post broadens the picture by introducing server-side programming and databases, which together compose web applications. Understanding how web applications work …
Learn Programming and Databases for Digital Marketing | $10k Tech Skills 2/4 Read More »
