DataDrive

We help fast-growing mid-market organizations break free from spreadsheet chaos by delivering comprehensive data strategies and automated data pipelines, all within a centrally managed, governed, and interactive reporting environment.

Our offerings include:
🔹 Data strategy development
🔹 Actionable insights to decision-makers
🔹 Hassle-free data automation and reporting platform
🔹 Ongoing staff training and support

We fuel data-literate cultures and enable data-informed decision-making, providing scalable internal and external reporting capabilities through our managed modern analytics services. Utilizing enterprise-grade secure cloud infrastructure and a proven delivery and adoption framework, DataDrive ensures your organization is set up for success.

We place a strong emphasis on the 'last mile' of analytics delivery, crafting compelling stories and insights tailored for non-technical audiences through our Human-Centered Data approach. By prioritizing people in the design process, we ensure project outcomes deliver actionable and measurable business value.

Experience the power of a data-driven future with DataDrive. Get in touch today: Luke[at]goDataDrive.com

Managing Director | Founder

Entrepreneurs'​ Organization

Chapter Officer | External Engagement

Twin Cities Tableau User Group

Coordinate logistics, event planning, data viz competitions, community engagement, social media marketing for 300+ active community members.  I often speak at monthly community events on various data visualization and analytics topics.

Co-Founder | Leadership Team

Personal Sabbatical

In pursuit of a personal goal, I spent time with my wife experiencing cultures and lifestyles outside of the United States.  After touring 28 countries across Europe, Asia, and Oceania, we gained new perspectives on how closely connected the global community is and redefined priorities in living a fulfilling life.  

I maintained a travel blog to capture our thoughts while traveling.  I also consulted with data analytics for U.S. clients during my travels.

World Traveler | Aspiring Travel Blogger

Slalom

Minneapolis' 1st Analytics Hire | Analytics Lead

Cargill

Data Engineer

Digital Serendipity

President | Co-Founder

UW-Eau Claire Center for Service-Learning Office

Database Administrator | Web Developer

Delivering unfair data advantages for the mid-market with ‘Data Analytics as a Service’– trusted insights, automation, and ongoing support that grows with you

𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐀 𝐀𝐃𝐕𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐆𝐄 – 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐋𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐍 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐌

Organizations are drowning in data but struggle to take advantage of actionable insights and prescriptive decisions.  

Companies instead have internal staff spend untold hours manually copying data across spreadsheets, shared drives, and email inboxes.  Any attempt to create insights with untrusted data is seen as a burden and a waste of time.

But if you don’t harness the power of data in your digital transformation, 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍.  

In 2022, 87% of surveyed executives stated that ‘data-driven decision-making’ is one of their extremely or somewhat important organizational priorities to thrive in 2023. 

𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞’𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐭.

"With DataDrive, we've been able to provide our customers with custom data-driven dashboards to monitor the success of their campaigns in a way we had been trying to unlock for years."
- Ashley Steckler, Lawyerist

”Analytics allows us to take action and ask 'why' vs. doing the same things we've always done - just because we think it works. The DataDrive team provides that clarity for us."
- Reed Daniels, Red’s Savoy Pizza

“We factually prove to our own clients that we deliver results and achieve ROI on pricing and revenue management engagements with DataDrive's help."
- Brad Beakley, Hospitio

Learn more about how they achieved their data advantage at 𝐠𝐨𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞.𝐜𝐨𝐦/𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐌 83% 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐄𝐎𝐒 𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐄

Business leaders want their organizations to be more data-driven.

However, investing in data talent and technology is cost-prohibitive.  Having your team actually access, interpret, and act on data-driven insights requires continued care and attention.

Building a data capability is a long, expensive, and risky initiative. 

𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐃𝐎 𝐈 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒

With over a decade of analytics consulting, I've implemented and trained users on the modern data stack for over 150 organizations.

I've seen the pitfalls, struggles, and poor investments. But there is an easier way.

𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐀 𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐌, 𝐃𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐃.

DataDrive delivers data capabilities to scale with fast-growing organizations - without the hassle of hiring a team, managing infrastructure, and negotiating with 10+ software vendors.  

And it's cheaper than a data engineer's salary!

Learn more at 𝐠𝐨𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞.𝐜𝐨𝐦

Luke Komiskey

Jump - Advisor AI

Staff Data Engineer

Orem Data

***Currently only taking advisory clients***

Modernizing data processes and tools to help startups drive revenue. I also do developer advocacy including technical writing as part of my independent work. 

● Managing full business operations, from client acquisition to solution development.
● Designing data strategies tailored to client needs, selecting the right tools, practices, and constructing a comprehensive data roadmap.
● Engineered an open-source-focused serverless stack with DuckDB, SQLMesh (Python models with Ibis), and S3 for a client.
● Developed data transformations in Python Polars while mentoring and empowering a data science team.
● Revamped and optimized a dbt project by automating the generation of source models from YAML and SQL files.
● Built an automated data system that parses emails, extracts attachments, and saves data to Google Drive.
● Producing technical content, blog articles, LinkedIn posts, and book(s) to educate, inspire, and support fellow data professionals.

Independent Consultant

Estuary

Content Partner

Humana

● Leading the BI user group across the department, delivering live training and consultations on BI implementations.
● Spearheading a CI/CD initiative using Azure DevOps for BI artifacts, enhancing the analytics lifecycle management.
● Managing stakeholders across teams and departments, ensuring seamless communication and collaboration on analytics projects.
● Developing end-to-end BI solutions, from gathering business requirements to building data models, metrics and visualizations.
● Integrating Azure Synapse Analytics with Power Platform (Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps) to streamline BI solutions.

Senior Business Intelligence Engineer

Packt

I wrote "Polars Cookbook":
- Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Polars-Cookbook-practical-transform-manipulate/dp/1805121154
- Packt:https://www.packtpub.com/en-us/product/polars-cookbook-9781805121152

Author

MasterControl

Business Intelligence Engineer

Data Clymer

● Implemented ELT pipelines and dashboards using Fivetran, BigQuery, Snowflake, Looker, Sigma, and Power BI.
● Developed a Fivetran custom connector in Python/Cloud Functions to unlock new data sources for analysis.
● Automated data pipelines to streamline investment decision-making, reducing manual effort by ~5 hours per week.
● Built an advanced Power BI data model supporting dynamic unit of measure conversions and analytics across multiple fact tables.
● Worked within an activity schema framework to standardize data modeling processes.
● Led business discussions to ensure technical solutions aligned with strategic objectives.

Analytics Engineer

Amplify Consulting Partners Inc

Working on the Microsoft project

● Led BI data model optimization efforts, reducing the dataset size and total refresh time by 50%~.
● Reengineered a dashboard, cutting the finance team’s manual workload by 40 hours per week, saving an estimated $100K annually
● Facilitated communications between business and the reporting team to translate the requirements into BI solutions.
● Acted as a bridge between business and reporting teams, ensuring effective translation of requirements into BI solution.

Analytics Consultant

Health Catalyst

Worked with/for Stanford Healthcare

● Developed Power BI solutions with advanced SQL, DAX, and Power Query to enhance visualization and analytics.
● Led a security initiative implementing a row/object level security along with metadata deployment in Power BI.
● Advised on BI architecture improvements to optimize data processing and modeling frameworks.
● Served as an internal BI expert, providing strategic guidance and best practices within the professional services department.

Analytics Engineer Intern

DigiCert, Inc.

●	Developed a Python package for upsert operation and improved the runtime of an ETL job from 3hrs to 10s.
●	Helped implement and maintain ETL jobs for our data warehouse with dimensional modeling.
●	Created a Python script to scrape over 1000 tables through web pages on Netcraft.

Data Engineer Intern

Analytics Engineer | Data Consultant

I'm currently working at Jump full-time. I still do independent consulting work in a limited capacity though. 

Reach out to me:
- yuki@oremdata.com
- https://oremdata.com
- cal.com/yuki-kakegawa

Blogs:
- https://thedatatoolbox.substack.com/
- https://stuffbyyuki.com/

Yuki Kakegawa

You might think your decision was a waste of money and time.

For example, spending a lot of money to attend university.

Maybe 90 out of 100 classes you take aren't that useful.

But you might find 10 classes useful and be using what you learned to this day, with or without you knowing. 

And even if you think you paid just for those 10 classes, it might be worth it. 

This is just an example but I believe there are many more things like this in life. 

You might be benefiting from what you believed to be something completely useless and wasteful. 

#life #learning

Data @ Jump | Independent Data Consultant

A perfect guide to be successful as a husband:

1. If your spouse asks you to do something, do it yesterday
2. You keep everything in the house clean so your spouse doesn't even think of a need for cleaning
3. Cook or order the food your spouse loves before she knows she wants it

Anything I missed? 

#life #marriage #husbandcareer

Sometimes all you need is another set of eyes.

Your colleagues bring a different perspective you’d never think of.

They bring insights into your ideas because they come with different experiences than yours.

You might have an experience where you were struggling with a problem for hours and had someone take a look at it and they solved it in minutes.

That's the power of collaboration.

When you invite others into your thought process, you borrow their clarity.

You shorten your path to the solution and you learn faster! 

#careers #learning

My wife and I are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel of this parenting challenge. 

The key has been both getting some outside help and being more observant about the situation. 

You're always learning as parents...

Open article: An Unexpected Parenting Challenge by open.substack.com

We often forget to be grateful for what we already have.

It's great that you work towards your goals but sometime it's as crucial if not more to take a step back and realize how far you've come.

And see what you've accomplished and realize that you have enough. 

Maybe that's all you need to do to find happiness and satisfaction in your work. 

#careers

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