Build Power BI Columns That Adapt to Each User
Originally published at https://shai-kr.github.io/data-ninja-ai-lab/blog/2026-05-28-user-aware-calculated-columns-power-bi.html . Power BI calculated …
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Why Analytics Is Product Infrastructure
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I Tracked Revenue Per User for 6 Months — Here's Why ARPU Beats ARPPU for Channel Decisions 2026
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Designing Website Analytics for AI Crawlers Without Surveillance
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Migrating off Google Analytics: Umami vs Plausible vs Fathom
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I Thought “Data Analyst” Was the Whole Game… Then I Entered the Data Avengers Office 👀
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# Mitigating Market Inefficiency in eSports: A Stochastic Approach to EA Sports FC25 Modeling
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Stop Mixing Them Up: SLI vs SLO vs SLA Explained
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I built web analytics with no dashboard, only an MCP
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Eight window-function tricks beyond LAG and ROW_NUMBER
The first post in this series got more reader response than I expected. The comments were full of practical follow-up questions and a few good correct…
30 CVR Improvement Checks for EC Sites — Where to Start When Sales Don't Move
"Ad sessions keep coming in, but purchases are not growing." "Add-to-cart looks fine, but checkout drops off." Every EC operator hits this wall, and t…
How We Keep Mobile Session Replay 17x Cheaper Than PostHog
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Why I Built a Standalone 10M-Row BI Agent in Next.js & DuckDB
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What goes into utm_medium for Meta Ads — the GA4 regex that decides Paid Social vs Organic Social
"We tag Meta Ads with utm_medium=social . It's a social platform, right?" If that's been your team's convention, GA4 has been silently logging your pa…
I scraped every **Show HN** post from May 2025 to May 2026 that crossed **200 points** and ran a quick analysis. There were 334 of them. Here is what landed.
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Introducing Solana Support, Smarter Ask AI, Mobile Attribution, and Dashboard Improvements
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Bounce Rate vs Exit Rate — What Each One Actually Counts in GA4
"Bounce Rate is high, that's a problem, right?" "What's the difference between Bounce Rate and Exit Rate?" These are the two metrics most often confus…
GA4 Events vs Sessions — What Each One Counts and Why They Differ
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Six SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud
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Building CPAi: An AI-Powered Bank Statement Analysis Dashboard
Manually reviewing bank statements to assess creditworthiness is one of those tasks that sounds simple until you realize there are dozens of bank form…
How to Build a Data Analytics Platform: Best Practices
Data has become one of the most powerful drivers of business success. However, managing data remains a significant challenge. Organizations require re…
Sessions vs Page Views vs Users — What Each One Actually Counts
"Sessions are the number of visitors, right?" "Page views are high, so traffic is healthy." These are the most common mix-ups I hear from people start…
Most Internal Dashboards Should Not Start With Real-Time Queries
One sentence shows up in internal-system projects again and again: “leadership wants real-time data.” I usually slow the discussion down when I hear t…
People were exporting data just to trust it
The system already had dashboards. Still, employees exported everything to Excel before making decisions. Not because Excel was better. Because they t…
The Definitive Guide to Web3 Wallet Segmentation and Analytics
Key Takeaways Wallet segmentation groups addresses by type and behavior: hot wallets for real-time engagement signals, cold wallets for high-value hol…