Jenna Jordan

This is Part 1 of a series of posts about bringing dbt into organizations where new tech usually moves slowly and carefully, like government, academia, and nonprofits.

Welcome to How to build your organization’s first dbt project If you work in data, there’s a decent chance you have heard of dbt (if not, skip to this section).

Photo I took of the Chihuly glass ceiling at the Bellagio, during an excursion with friends while at Coalesce 2025 In Spring 2025, I began serving as an Expert in Residence for BU Spark!

The Coalesce session recording is now available!

Note: An abridged version of this article was published Oct 1, 2025, on The Data Intelligence Platform Thank you Ole Olesen-Bagneux for featuring my writing as a Guest Expert!

The data professionals are not okay.

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Featured Content This post was featured in The Analytics Engineering Roundup weekly newsletter on April 28, 2024.

Many months ago I posted an introductory primer to analytical data warehouses, specifically targeted to folks who were familiar with data work but did not have a lot of experience working with data warehouses.

When I first started working on the City of Boston Analytics Team, I had never really worked with an analytical data warehouse before.

This website, and therefore this blog, has fallen by the wayside since I graduated from library school with my MSLIS in the spring of 2020… in the midst of a global pandemic.

My Carpentries teaching journey started out slow - I taught a couple of times that first year, and stuck to the lesson I was most comfortable with (SQL & Databases).