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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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headless bi

/ˈhɛd.ləs ˌbiːˈaɪ/ - n.

1 [colloq.] Business intelligence with the part that asked the business removed.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. An architecture that exposes governed metric definitions through an API, decoupling the metrics layer from any single visualization tool.

Evidence
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See also
  • data platformIt did not fail to create ownership. It succeeded at revealing there was none.
  • metrics storeA store for the definitions everyone agreed to centralize and continued to override locally.
  • semantic layerThe place where the company agreed what 'revenue' means, except for the four teams that didn't get the invite.