Katie Bauer!

They're tremendously useful, and as this article says, way better than previous tooling. I remember once spending days debugging a giant financial report that was broken because someone accidentally overwrote a cell in the Excel workbook with a space https://towardsdatascience.com/dashboards-are-dead-b9f12eeb2ad2 …

Even so, I'm skeptical that a drag-and-drop tool is what we'll need to replace dashboards. Removing the need to write SQL will help a lot (and will also save data scientists a shitton of time) with getting new people in the funnel, but it won't automatically produce GOOD work.

Data democratization often means democratizing the process of finding telemetry bugs and spurious correlations. The process of doing in data analysis is more than writing queries and creating charts. You do need some training (and discipline) to know how to interpret what you see

Collaborative tools like this one can be useful for teaching interested folks how to do analysis better, but one major problem dashboards attempt to solve is there are a lot of people who just do not care about doing data analysis.

And you know what? That's fine. That's why businesses pay for data scientists and analysts--to provide a service that other people can't or aren't interested in doing.