Here. Hello and welcome. My name is Shannon Kemp and I'm the Chief Digital Manager of DataVercity. We would like to thank you for joining this DataVercity webinar, a practical guide to implementing effective VI governance sponsored today by Metric Insights. Just a couple of points to get us started. Due to the large number of people that attend these sessions, you will be muted during the webinar. For questions, we will be collecting them by the Q&A. Or if you'd like to tweet, we encourage you to share highlights or questions via Twitter using hashtag DataVercity. And if you'd like to chat with us or with each other, we certainly encourage you to do so. And again, just a note, Zoom defaults the chat to send to just the panelists, but you may change it to send to all attendees as well to chat with each other. And to find the Q&A or the chat panels, you may click on those icons found in the bottom middle of your screen. And as always, we will send a follow-up email within two business days containing links to the slides, the recording of the session, and any additional information requested throughout the webinar. Now let me introduce to you our speakers for today, Mike Smithman and Marius Moscovici. Mike is the VP of Sales and Marketing at Metric Insights and has over 15 years of product and marketing experience in the business intelligence industry. He helped bring analytic products to market with senior roles at Seagate Software, AIM Technology, T-Leaf, Extero, and Good Data. Marius has over 20 years of experience in analytics and data warehousing. Marius is the CEO of Metric Insights, the leading provider of BI Portal that helps organizations organize their BI environments and ensure users are getting the actual data they need. And with that, I will give the floor to Marius to get today's webinar started. Hello and welcome. Thank you, Shannon. Really great to be here. And before we start, just getting a level setting here, we're going to talk about practical guide to BI governance. I'd be good to really understand what BI governance is about. So I want to make sure that we work clear on a level set that when we talk about BI governance and analytics governance, it is often the case that people just think about a data governance when they think about governance. And that can be a very big mistake because in reality, only a small percentage of your user community is consuming your data directly, writing SQL, maybe your data scientists, maybe your BI analysts are writing SQL against the database or using Python or going out of it directly. But the vast majority of the constituents in your organization are going after data using analytics, whether that be a BI tool that's been implemented with the solution or whether that be multiple tools where it's been put together and wrapped to Excel, deploy via Python, whatever might be the solution that you devise. So when you think about governance, it's very important to think about both pieces of these puzzles and come up with a solution that addresses both data as well as the front-end analytics that users are consuming. So with that said, I want to set the stage by something that Gartner has commented on. And they've said that through 2022, only 20% of organizations investing in information governance will succeed in scaling their initiatives across the enterprise. Now think about that for a moment. That means that 80% of the governance initiatives that are going to be attempted throughout this next year are going to fail. That's a staggering failure rate. And that, I think, is sort of shocking in many ways. And yet, I don't think for many of us on these calls that's a big surprise because scaling governance initiatives beyond a small department, getting it to a point where it really is adopted enterprise scale and doing it effectively where you're generating ROI for your effort, is actually a very complex task. And why is that? Well, it's because there are these three gears that have to turn together in unison in order to make it work. You've got to have the right people in the right roles with the right responsibilities. They have to be given a process that really works within your governance framework. And then you have to have technology that meshes with the people and with the process to enable that process to be executed effectively. If any one of these gears does not turn or is not the right size or doesn't fit with the rest, then the whole thing is just not going to work. The machine will not work and the governance initiative will fail. So let's talk a little bit about what each of these gears is about and what involves success in these areas. So first, let's talk about roles and responsibilities. So typically what we've seen is that there are three kind of primary roles that are involved here. There's the business that's imagined this, call this role the business owner. And these are the folks that are responsible for defining the rules, the governance, how the data should be interpreted. What defines sales? What defines revenue? What defines churn? All the main things that are going to be measured and shown in a particular report or dashboard or data science visualization have to have somebody at some point defining what that means. And usually the business has to come up with that consistent definition. So the business owner isn't responsible for that scope of governance. Then you have the BI analyst and essentially the BI analyst is responsible for taking that information. I'm going to be measuring sales. I'm going to build a dashboard that's built on top of sales. Here's how sales is defined. We've gotten that baseline defined for me. Now I'm responsible for both putting together the business logic so that these reports or dashboards are created with a consistent definition for that those particular measures, the implementers of the analytics. And then finally, in some cases, you've got the data stewards. These can be data governance team members. They could sometimes be individuals that are responsible for data engineers that might be doing pipelining, but there are fundamental responsibilities to make sure that the data has arrived in the right place with the right definition that the analytics that are being used are being sourced from the right place so that information is consistent and of a high quality. So these are broadly the roles. And of course, an individual may fit multiple roles. It can be distributed across the entire organization. There can be a lot of complexity around this. But broadly speaking, these tend to be the three large swaths of roles. To look at this as an example, in a practical sense, let's imagine that you have a sales operations use case. So imagine you have a dashboard that's measuring the sales rep attainment against goal in an enterprise. So each sales rep comes in and says, okay, here's how I'm doing relative to my target. Here's what my commission is going to be by the end of the quarter if I continue doing. In this example, the business role, the business analyst would be the business rule that was responsible for defining the business rules. They would be defining, what does attainment mean? What are the territory alignments? How do we measure the progress of this particular sales rep against goal? And how do we measure their compensation? So they would come up with those rules that would be used as the fundamental underpinning of this visualization. Then the analyst who might be like, say, a sales ops report developer, that person would come in and they'd say, okay, let me build a dashboard and make sure that this dashboard, perhaps in Tableau or Power BI, whatever tool they selected, that this dashboard uses these rules that have been agreed upon and visualizes everything correctly based on that. And then finally, from a data validation perspective, perhaps a Salesforce data pipelining engineer or ETL engineer, that person is responsible for making sure that, well, did we get the data from the right place in Salesforce? Is there the right transformation logic to land the data from Salesforce into our data warehouse? Did we pull the targets from the right place in the financial system? Is that all being integrated? And then is that information all available to the business analysts to make sure they're using the data correctly? So you can see how these three roles work together around the governance of both the data and the visualization for this particular analytic. So let's talk about process next. And here, there's just this very common issue that happens all the time. We see this scenario with customers day in and day out. And one of the big reasons that governance initiatives fail is that people try to do this one size fits all approach. So invariably, in an enterprise, nobody really wants to do governance. It's one of these things that you just have to do in order to be effective. But none of the folks in the organization, nobody wakes up in the morning and says, hey, I really want to add documentation and classification and go through process. People want to just go out there and build reports and solve problems. And so it's one of these things that then what naturally happens is that one of two things takes place. Either governance is instituted because it is something that's required. There's regulatory requirements or it's clearly such a mess in the BI infrastructure that you've got to clean it up because your users are screaming because they don't know where to find things. So you've got that driving it. Or in which case you tend to basically go where you build this process that's very heavy and cumbersome and can be very difficult to execute. Or you come up with something super lightweight because you think, well, people are not really going to follow this process if it's too heavy. And so we're going to just go with something really light and made more of a guideline based perspective and make it really easy for people to follow. And if you go with either of those extremes, it doesn't work for many of the assets that you have because some things require more governance, some things require less governance. And the worst of all cases if you just meet in the middle and say, well, let's just make it kind of halfway in between these two. And then you've essentially, you've fit no one. And the analogy I like to use is it's as if you opened up a clothing store that sells suits and you sell everybody walking in exactly the same size, which represents the average size of what people wear. Your likelihood of actually having something fit is very, very low. And that's intuitively obvious if you think about suits. And yet we do this kind of thing all the time with governance and it leads to failure consistently. So don't do that. Don't think of a one size fits all. So what do you do instead? Well, we suggest basically this classification mechanism where you build a content classification grid.  And then based on that fit, then you assign the right level of governance to it. So this grid is broken up into two axes. On the one axis, you look at audience size. So is this visualization something that's being consumed by a small number of individuals? Is it maybe a departmental type solution? Or is it something that's going to go to a very large group of people that meets enterprise wide consumption or very large departments? On the other axis, you look at business impact. Is this analytic that's being governed? Is it something that is going to if something goes wrong, if the data is incorrect, if the data is misinterpreted or used incorrectly, what is going to be the impact? Is it going to have a massive impact on the business? You know, is this the kind of thing that's going out to your board of directors and your executives are making key strategic decisions from? Is it going to have sort of a medium level impact? Well, yes, it's important, but, you know, not the end of the world. Or is it something where, you know, yes, this is important to the person using it, but they might have two or three other things that they're disposed of to tell them that something's going wrong. And therefore it's really low business impact is an issue. And every analytic that you can think of every report or dashboard can be placed in one of these nine quadrants. Let's look at some examples. So let's and then based on that, excuse me, based on that, you then are going to identify who is going to be responsible for governance process, right? So something with low impact and has a small audience, then probably the appropriate governance process for that is just for the BI analysts to be responsible for the entire governance, making sure everything has high quality, making sure the data is good, the analytic uses the right logic and so on and so forth. On the other hand, something that has medium business impact, maybe departmental solution with a medium audience size that has some real impact, maybe a sales report that could be problematic if it provides wrong information, that you might want to involve the business owner in that because they're want to have that extra level of validation to make sure that this is consistent with the latest business rules that have been defined. And you don't want to rely on just the BI analysts to do it because people make mistakes and you want to have a little more assurance. At the other extreme, if you've got something with large audience, maybe a high level of impact, now you really want to surround this with a process that involves multiple parties. It's a three-party governance process where the BI analysts make sure the reporting is correct, the business owner make sure the logic reflects the latest business logic, and the data steward make sure the data is all been sourced from the right place. And following the same kind of approach, you can imagine filling in the grid based on what's appropriating your business for all these different other scenarios. And now you have a mapping that says who should be involved in each step of the governance process for this particular asset that you're working with. So these assets require three-party governance, these assets require one, these assets require two. And that's the starting point by which you can ensure that you're tailoring the governance process to the right audience. And so again, with the effort of making it practical, let's look at some examples. So imagine for a moment that you have a network performance report. So this is something that a network engineer is using to see if the system network is overloaded. So that example clearly is going to be a small business impact and small audience, only a handful of engineers are using it. And if the report is not showing the right number, but the network is performing poorly, they're probably going to know because they're going to be complaining about it. So yes, you want to make sure it's right, but the impact of getting it wrong is not tremendous. In this example, that would fall into that category. And then you would go from there. And there's another grid here on the right, which I'll talk about in a moment, where you can then determine where the process that would be followed to recertify an element would apply as well. So we'll hold off and I'll discuss that in a moment. Another example is the sales quota attainment report. So here for a moment, let's imagine that you've got something, the example I gave you before, where there is a sales report and it's being used by your sales team to be able to determine how they're performing. So that goes as medium business impact, because clearly communicating the right performance versus the target to a sales rep is important. You don't want inaccuracies in that. And it has a medium audience size. It's going to the entire sales team. And again, in here, you would have two different individuals involved. You want the business analyst and you'd want the business analyst and the business person involved in this. And then you would also want to have a process by which maybe this kind of content goes through a decertification process, whereby at the end of every quarter, as the new territory alignments come into place, that content gets decertified and then gets recertified once it's been revalidated by the business with the territory alignments and everything are not changed. And then a final example might be a monthly fiscal report. So this is perhaps a report that goes out to your board of directors and your executives on the performance of your business. It's incredibly high impact. If you get those numbers wrong, it might be there's some Sarbanes-Oxley implications. Maybe there's some fiduciary responsibility issues and liability involved in that. So in this case, even though it's a small audience, closely held data, it has very high business impact. And this is the kind of thing that would require three-party certification. Lots of people involved, lots of processes involved around this and also would be something that probably would be subject to some kind of decertification process that would occur on some kind of a calendar basis. So at the end of the month, you need to reclose the books to validate the financial for the prior month during the period of time when the books are being closed. This reporting would be decertified. And then once the finance team has checked all the boxes and said, yes, these numbers are correct, it will be recertified. And then people consuming it would know that it's good. So that's an example of the different items. Let's talk for a moment about process as itself. So identifying among these different individuals that are involved, there's also different things that you're going to want to do with a particular analyst. So for example, you might want to make sure that the data quality alerts are in place. So whatever it is that you've created, how do you know that the data is good? How do you know that specifically how do you know the data is good today? Maybe the data was loaded correctly last month, but in this month's data, it's not. So what kind of checks need to be in place for that? Second step in the governance process might be to say, well, what kind of data classification fields do I need to add to this content? Do I need to flag this as continuing PII data, or identify that this is internal or sensitive or has to be handled in a special way. So that's a governance layer that it should be added to any visualization. You might want to add documentation, things like release notes, the ability to identify what key terms mean within the report and how that particular report has changed over time so that somebody consuming it is aware of the fact that, hey, we actually changed the business rule here. And this reflects the sales territory alignment that just took effect. So if your numbers look different, that's why. You might want to tag this with glossary terms so that somebody looking at that sales report, they understand, well, what counts of sales? Does this do third-party sales? Is channel sales included in this, or just the sales that I'm selling directly? What exceptions are there to how this works? So all of that kind of terminology when associated with this. And then there's the whole certification process. Ultimately, saying being able to say, well, once I've validated that everything is right, definitions are right, the source is right, okay, now we know we can actually say this was certified and identify who certified it and when it was certified. And then aligning it back to the process that we talked about in the roles, depending upon whether it's a one-party, a two-party, or a three-party certification process, different people will be doing these different steps. So a BI analyst may be performing all these steps for a single-party certification model, a two-party model where the business owner is involved, maybe the analyst is just doing the tracking of data quality alerts and adding the data classification and adding the documentation. But the business owner is going in and tagging to the right glossary terms. They're responsible for really saying, yes, I'm certifying that this is measuring sales in the way that we on the sales ops team have designated as the right way to do it. As well as to finally give it that certification stamp of approval to say yes, everyone in the business can trust this, I verify that this is correct. And then in a three-party certification model where the data steward is involved, then perhaps the data steward is responsible for saying, yes, those quality alerts are in place, you can trust the data, yes, the right data classification has been assigned to this. And then the BI analyst is simply responsible in making sure that the report accurately brings in the data and the right rules are applied there with the business owner having final responsibility around glossary terms and content certification. So you can see, I mean this is an example, but you can see how you can easily craft this in your organization based on your data, your content, the steps that you want to follow in your certification so that it's not a one-size-fits-all. So it's a something where the asset is first classified, it goes into the right model where the how many parties are involved certification process, and then the right individuals are then responsible for the right steps to make sure that certification and publishing of this content is really meaningful and that the right data gets pushed up. You saw this little grid on my last, on my previous slide, I want to kind of speak to for a moment. When you think about certification and publishing content that's certified, it's very important to understand that certification is not a one-and-done phenomenon, right? So you cannot be successful if all you do is certify content and forget about it because invariably over time even content, the content that is absolutely correct today, you know, six months, nine months, a year, year and a half from now, it might no longer be correct. There might be business rule that needs to be revisited. So there needs to be a process whereby you're either automatically decertifying content, like the examples I gave you before with financials where it just gets decertified at the end of every month because it has to undergo a certification process or the sales realignment where the territories get realigned once a year or once a quarter, or if it's something that has to be reviewed for recertification. So many other reports might be, well, they're probably still good, but somebody should check them every six months, every year, every 12 months, every 18 months, whatever the right interval is to determine that they're correct. So for every asset, you need to say, is the subject automatic decertification or should it be reviewed on a regular basis? And then should this process undergo based on a calendar or should it happen based on an elapsed time, you know, as 12 months after it was published, a year and a half after it was published, whatever is relevant in there. And then based on that, you classify the content and then you put it into the appropriate workflow such that this recertification or certification review process occurs as needed to make sure that it's still accurate. And this gives your users a comfort level that when they know they've seen something certified, they know when it was last certified, perhaps when it was last reviewed, and they know that they can really trust. The other key key point here is that we also want to recognize that when content has been certified, when assets have been certified, that if that asset changes, then you need to reevaluate that certification. Now, you might have different kinds of changes. There's high risk and low risk changes, and those should probably be treated differently. So an example of a high risk change would be maybe the logic in the underlying tables that are being used for particular visualizations and modified. In that example, I've changed the logic, the sequel statements changed. Well, that might be caused for automatically de-certifying the content and then revisiting it because maybe there's something clearly changed the metric definition. A low risk change might be somebody just changing a description or something of that nature. And in that example, then maybe all you want to do is review this item to say, hey, there's been some change in here. It doesn't look like a high impact change, but let's go ahead and put this into a pipeline where somebody can review that content for potential de-certification. And so keep it certified, but make sure that the change has been noticed and that somebody's reviewed it and indicated, yes, it's okay. So that has to be a part of the puzzle, along with the automated time base and or event-based review for content to be continuously served. So we've talked about the people and we talked about process. The third really important gear here is technology. What good is a great process and people that are willing to engage in it, if at the end of the day, it's onerous. If there isn't the right mechanism in place to make it easy, the reality is no matter what, people will want to spend as little time as possible on governance. So you need to have a technological underpinning that tools in place to facilitate effective governance in a way that is very low touch, that requires very little effort from users and that provides really a lot of transparency and visibility around the whole process. And there are three parts to this solution and we'll kind of dig into details in a moment. The first part is there has to be a place, a portal, a place where all of the governed content can be assembled. So if you think about this governance problem and you consider the fact that if you're trying to do the governance, you have three or four different BI tools and some data, some new reports that people are consuming Excel and PDF and lots of different tools out there, right? If you have that situation, if you attempt to instantiate governance across each of those silos independently, that is just an effort that's doomed for failure. You're never going to even get out of the starting gate on that undertaking. So you have to have a way to pull all that content into a governance space, a single portal, a single access point, where people can get to the content as well as the governed information around that content, the certification, the tagging and so forth, in a coherent and consistent fashion. So that's a key pillar of the technological solution. A second piece of the puzzle is the workflows. So we talked about the fact that there's going to not going to be a one-size-fits-all, that that doesn't work, which means that for the process of classifying content, publishing, certifying, assuming things are tied to the right things, that all has to be governed through a workflow and there has to be some technology to support that workflow effectively so that it is not cumbersome or onerous for the people doing it and so that there's transparency around where things move as they go through that workflow. And then finally, there has to be a compliance and reporting aspect to this. So if you have the portal, if you've got the workflows, but if you can't tell a measure how you're doing, both from a perspective of knowing, are you adhering to the governance policies? Are things being certified? Are there things that have gone through the certification process six months ago, but have not been reviewed and recertified? You know, all those things are so basically checks and balances to ensure that things get escalated and that people are aware of the things that they need to take action on, as well as the measurement of the effectiveness of the process. You're doing this governance not just to ensure security, but to boost engagement, to increase data literacy, to do a lot of things, to improve things in your enterprise. So how do you know whether that's happening? You need to make sure you have the tools in place that measure those things so that you then can say definitively that, yes, this process is working. Or if it's not working, here, let me go make some adjustments. So with that, I'm going to hand you off to Mike, who's going to show you some actual examples of how the portal workflows and compliance can work together to provide the technical support to the governance sector. Yeah, thanks, Marius. So I'm just going to take a second here and switch across to our demo environment. Just give me one second. I'm sharing here this way. This is coming up. So yeah, as Marius said, I'm going to take us through sort of how metric insights implements some of these things. And we'll touch on the three areas that Marius spoke about. So this is concept of having a centralized portal for accessing and governing content and then talking through the workflow pieces that enable you to publish content in a governed way through those different stakeholders and resources that we spoke about. And so the first piece I'm going to look at essentially from the perspective a little bit of sort of the end user and what it means to have access to governed content so that I can better be able to understand the context behind the assets that I have access to. Let's just try and refresh this here. Okay. So what you're looking at here is the metric insights portal, but essentially think of this as a piece of technology, whereas an end user, when I come in, the complexities of understanding where reports and dashboards exist and what technologies they exist in, understanding what I can trust is kind of masks for me and I can come in and access content in one place. So what you're looking at here is sort of a catalog view of content where there's reports and dashboards coming in from multiple tools and essentially I have access to content in one place. And so you'll see I've got stuff coming from Tableau, Power BI, I've got spreadsheets and PDF documents all accessible to me and really I don't even have to understand where they are coming from. And if I click on a particular asset, I get a preview of what that content is. And as we'll see, because this content has been through a governance process like Marius described, when I preview this content, I'm getting a lot of context around what it is. So I'm seeing things like who the owners are, who have been involved in creating and managing this content. I can obviously see what's called and the description of it. I can see how fresh the data is based on the last time it was refreshed in the particular asset. I can see any classification for the content. So is this something that is for internal use only? Does it contain sensitive information? I can see gossary terms that Marius mentioned and we'll look at these in more detail. But this has been tagged with metrics that have been defined and described and that have owners behind them. I can see an image of the dashboard in terms of the last time it updated and what it actually means. And so even before I access this content, I've got some context around what it is, who's responsible for it, what it contains, and whether it's going to answer the question that I have right now. And if it does, then obviously I'm going to want to drill into that. And in the metric insights portal, we basically embed that report now. In this case, it's coming from Tableau, but it could be any underlying technology within this portal view. So it's very simple for the user to be able to interact with it and see the context around it. So at the top, you'll see the glossary terms that we mentioned about. You'll see the classification that we've just talked about and the ownership. You'll see things like documentation that may be related to this content that was added during the publication process. So it could be things like release notes or further definitions or help around how this should be being used. So again, it's not just about sort of publishing content for users. When that content is governed, I get some sort of a sense of confidence as an end user that what I'm looking at is correct and I'm interpreting it and using it in the right way. Another piece of the governance process as well, both from the sort of publication perspective and creation of content, but also can be useful for sort of the end user is this concept of a lineage as well. And understanding if I'm either checking this report as part of the certification process or even consuming it, where did this report come from and where's it being used. And in this case, we can see the Tableau dashboard was coming from a particular instance of Tableau, but also that it's being pushed out in a number of distributions in the organization where people are consuming it and be able to really understand for a particular asset, what are the components that make up that asset and how is it being used. So we've got the context around it. We've also got the context that this particular report has been certified. And we'll touch on how that happens in a minute. But it's important if we're going to publish content to again, not only add the governance layers and context to it, but also let people know that that has been done and it's been checked. And so the concept of a certification stamp of approval is important, having accountability when it was certified. So as a user again, when I come into this, I ultimately know I can trust it and it's something I can be working with. So the general idea within any portal is to bring everything together, to give the context behind it, to have that layer of certification, to be able to organize content in one place and give users this catalog of content where they can come and search through it and understand based on that metadata what it is that's available, filtering out by things like what has been certified. So again, I'm focusing and easily able to find the content that I'm interested in and make sure that it's truly what's answering my questions. So that's kind of the end result that we're trying to achieve with governance is make it easy for people to consume the right content based on what it's trying to achieve, what a particular report is trying to achieve. So again, I'm using the right content, but I'm understanding how it's being created and what it's telling me. So let's transition over and talk a little bit about the publishing process behind this. So as Marius said, one size doesn't fit all. So whatever technology you put in place, you need to have the ability to define a particular publishing workflow. How does the content get into the portal with all that context to the point that we can certify it? And so within metric insights, we have this concept of what we call publishing workflows that can be as simple as I'll show you some some end examples of this can be as simple as sort of a one party, as Marius mentioned before, where it's going through essentially a simple review step before it gets published to the end users in the organization, or as complex as say a three party workflow, where again, the different steps as different constituents, different people responsible for reviewing and adding and checking the data and adding the context to it before it ultimately gets published. So you need a technology that will support different workflows. And if we look at what that looks like from an end user perspective, you know, so what does publishing content mean? Well, it's about pushing it through that workflow. So I'm going to take the very simple example where maybe I'm doing these all these steps of review and publish. So I'm in here with a particular workflow where we've essentially got three steps, new content will come into the workflow, it will go through a sort of a certification process and governance process before it gets published in a complete fashion out to our users. So as a particular user here, John, there's a couple of dashboards that have come into my queue. You'll see again, they're coming from different technologies here. And I in this simple case may be responsible for doing some of the things that we spoke about. So assigning it to a particular category that users have access to, I may then take that across into a stage where I'm responsible for then once it's in progress in the review process for adding in the appropriate metadata. So I may tag it with the key metrics that we've spoken about that are included within this particular dashboard. I may classify it. So this is for internal use, but it doesn't contain any PII data. I may attach documentation to it at this point before it gets sent out. But ultimately, again, whether it's a simple example like this where it's just me doing it or multiple users, at some point, once I'm happy with that, I'm essentially going to save that and move it into a certified state for our users. So in this case, I can move it into our final complete state where it's going to be ultimately certified and available to our end users at that point. And so whether it's a simple process like this, whether it's the other end of the scale that we were talking about, where there's multiple stages where the developers are reviewing it, the business owners are reviewing it, the data stewards are looking at the data before it ultimately gets published. We can manage these different workflows, different users responsible for different pieces. And ultimately, again, what are we trying to do here? We're trying to, if we go back to our portal, end up with a set of certified content that the end users will have access to. So everything in one place, publishing workflows to get it out there in a governed way, and being able to do that in oftentimes a pretty distributed format. So it's not as simple as having one analyst in your organization to do this. There's probably multiple teams publishing content in different workflow formats that we've spoken about. The third piece of the puzzle for the last five minutes here that we'll talk on is around sort of measurement of the process as well. So Marius mentioned before about having sort of the checks and balances to say, is the governance process affecting how we use data in an organization? Is it improving the way we use data? Are we getting better engagement with the BI assets that we are putting out there for our business users? And in order to do that, one measurement of that is essentially looking at how content is being used. And any portal that you put in place like this needs to be able to measure usage at really any touch point within the organization. So I could be accessing reports and dashboards within the portal like we've looked at here. But equally, I may be consuming it because it's gone out in a distribution to my email. And that's ultimately where I'm accessing the content, or I could be bookmarking it in the online tool, or I could be accessing it on my mobile device. Anywhere a user is touching a piece of content, we want to make sure we're tracking that and using it as a gauge of how well our assets are being used that we're publishing. And so within metric insights, we report on that information. So obviously I can look at views of content over time, but more importantly, I can see on a rolling basis, in this case the last 60 days, what content is actually being used, what's increasing in popularity, what's decreasing over time, what's going unused. And getting a view for either as the library of content as a whole or the content that I'm actually responsible for, the ones where I've actually pushed it or created it, pushed it out through our workflow process, I should be able to see how that engagement is happening. And down to a pretty detailed level as well. So oftentimes we'll look at usage at a very high level. In this case, our Tableau sales analysis dashboard was viewed 747 times in the last 60 days. But I need to really understand the user journey with that content. Was that because I published it 60 days ago when 747 people came in to see what it was all about, but decided it was actually not that useful and never went in again? Or is it something getting continual engagement over time? And so being able to look at some sort of visualization like we're looking at here where we're sort of simulating over that 60 days, which users or user groups were coming in and engaging with that content? Are they coming in regularly, are they bouncing in and out and looking at it on an ongoing basis? Or did they kind of look at it once like John here and never come back in again? And so by understanding that engagement, understanding who's looking at it, being able to better either promote or categorize that content so that people get better usage out of it is important. Another way to think about sort of the effectiveness of governance when we're talking about the categorization content is understanding whether people are even finding the content. So one thing that categorization allows us to do as we saw within the search is make sure that people can actually find the things that they're looking for. And so tracking things like search performance, when people enter search terms into the portal, are they getting results? Are they actually clicking on content and it's a successful thing because they found it? Are they searching for things where either there's no results coming back or they're unsuccessful because they're not clicking on any content in those search results? And again, using that to better understand how should we categorize content or if this content isn't available, it may be candidates for things that we should be building in the future. And then the final thing for usage, understanding that over time, are we getting better engagement with BI in general across our whole body of content? If we look at sort of 30, 60, 90 day usage of content, are we seeing positive trends where that's increasing because we're seeing better engagement and we're seeing people finding the things that they really need. So again, in summary, and we'll open this up for questions in a second, then in summary, three things, portal, get everything in one place, make sure people consume content and that they can find it, have the necessary publishing workflows to be able to get it out there with context and then measure that and understand what effect it is having within the business. So I think we're right on 1145 here, Shannon. Why don't we see if there's some questions? Thank you both so much for this great presentation, lots of questions coming in. And just to answer the most commonly asked questions, just a reminder, I will send a follow-up email to all registrants by end of day Monday for this webinar with links to the slides recording as well as anything else requested throughout. So lots of great questions coming in here. So diving in, how is a data steward for BI analytics governance different from the data steward for traditional data governance? I think it's a, it can be a broader role. It kind of depends a little bit on how you define it, but traditionally kind of a data steward in a more just purely focused on data governance is just looking at the providence of the data itself, you know, how does it come in, the quality of it. I think it's important to maybe expand that stewardship role a bit more in this context to really understand, to have that data steward also understand, you know, what analytics are sourcing this lineage a little further upstream than just the final landing place of the data and the data warehouse, because again, it's a holistic approach. So if you take the traditional data governance role plus add the ability to really explore and understand lineage into the analytics where the data is consumed, right, and, and validating the quality around that entire process. And I would say not just it did the data in the warehouse land correctly, but do we have quality all the way into the analytic? Do we have the right dependency checks to make sure that that Tableau dashboard is pulling the data at the right time, right? All then, then that becomes the full on a stewardship role that that's covered in the BI governance scenario. So that's a great question. So what components and thresholds would be set in order to fire data quality alerts? If the system has a lot of content, where would where would be an ideal starting point for a BI analyst to start in order to set appropriate alerts? Yeah, I can take this one. So I think this is an interesting one. So if you think of the typical flow, there's often sort of checks and balances happening within your sort of ETL processes. I think this, you know, interpreting this question, I think it's important to have the checks and balances from from a BI and analyst perspective as well. And the way we see that happening is, and we actually have some alerting capabilities that we didn't get to within within the demo there, but is being able to, yes, have some alerting around some of the sort of more technical aspects of your dashboard. So oftentimes, analysts will set up alerts in our customers where they're looking at things like the the size of the data set that is is driving a particular dashboard, you know, the number of rows that typically get loaded. And if there's an anomaly, you know, suddenly one day we get half as many rows as we usually do, then that could be an indicator of a data quality issue. But also setting up alerts around sort of the business metrics within the dashboard, because if you've got a sales dashboard like the one we're looking at, and suddenly there's a drop in sales significantly on a particular day, well, reality is that could be a business issue, in which case you want to be alerted to it. But by alerting the analysts to that issue first, it could also be an indication that actually something happened with the data. And you know, you may want to check on that before it goes out to the general population. So I'd say set up alerts that kind of yes touch on sort of some of the technical aspects, but also use that business metric KPI alerting to use it as sort of an early warning that something might be might be wrong with the data. And if it isn't and you check it, then alert the business users because something's going on in the business. And I would add to what Mike said is, you know, to the vein of where should I start, because you can't boil the ocean, you can't check on everything on day one. Well, use that same classification grid that we showed you, right? Look at what are those assets that you have today. They fall into those those parts of the grid where they have high business impact, high user volume, and then, you know, you work your way down to that high impact line. And those are the items that you want to validate using those two mechanisms. Mike said, you know, validating for all of our role counts is like that. But then the metric itself, if it's changed the significant way, I know to find that. Perfect. So do you have any suggestions for tracking the impact of some of the certification process? Any rule of thumb to build this review into the process? In terms of tracking the certification process? Yeah. So I think the key there is whatever workflow you use, whatever tool or technology or capability you use, the key is to ensure that there is logging around that, right? And that there's reporting around the logging that takes place. So for example, if there's the expectation that something gets certified or get through the public move to the published process and certified in within a week, then you check to see the things that don't get that haven't started the process and have not ended should get should get escalated to somebody via notifications. If there's the same thing, if there's the expectation that you're going to recertify after a certain period of time, having that log such that you have reporting that goes out to the appropriate party to say, hey, your content that you've certified six months ago is subject for recertification, go in there and then you hit this link and go to recertify. So making that really, really easy and transparent are the other two key things. Yeah. And I add to that. And I'm scanning questions here. And I know we're going to run out of time. I think related to that, there's a sort of a lot of questions around sort of ROI and budget and, you know, your BI practices in general, you know, measuring the, the, the certification itself as well. So if you've got a body of content that you're expecting to be certified, how much is certified is the stuff that certified getting better engagement because people are trusting it or, you know, compared to the stuff that isn't certified, you know, if an analyst is responsible for a body of content, how much of his or her content have they certified versus not, you know, measure the process but measure what you have as well within that library of BI content that you're managing? Yeah. Shannon. Sorry, I was talking to my meat button there. Yeah, we do, we, what I was saying is we do get a lot of questions around ROI. It is a really calming question. And so all too often there seems to be low utilization, which tends to cause management to become hesitant for continued budget allocation. So you want to expand on that? Yeah, I can, I can start with that. So, you know, I think that's, that's, you know, been the reality with, with BI over the last couple of decades, right? And I think in some respects, it's because we've become almost a victim of our own success in terms of we've made it too difficult for people to, to use content, right? It's easier for a business user who's got a couple of minutes every day to pick up the phone and ask for a set of data or some report, rather than go and find it themselves, because there's just thousands of reports out there that he may, he or she may have access to. So, yeah, I think the way to, to start is by getting your BI under control with some of the techniques that we've been talking about, and it's less about volume, and it's more about quality and making sure that what you're making available to business users is the stuff that they should be using, and that they can easily find and stumble across that content if they need it, so that it's easier to do that than, again, pick up the phone and ask for something else, because reality is a lot of BI teams spend 24 seven fighting fires, rather than what they've been recruited for, which is probably to do more advanced analytics and, you know, move the business forward. So I would say, you know, the way to start is getting your environment under control, focusing on the body of content that's important, have a process to publish that content in a governed way, measure that it is being used and actually change the paradigm and show your management some higher engagement figures, and, you know, map that back to your BI tool usage, right? You know, reality is, you know, are you utilizing the licenses that you're paying for based on the engagement that you're getting with the content, because if you're not, maybe there's an opportunity to reallocate some of the things that you have or focus in different areas. I think what Mike said is exactly right, and it reminds me of that old sort of Stephen Covey saying that when there's no gardener, there is no garden, right? And this governance process is about creating a garden, right? It's about creating an environment that has the content is curated that that's useful and meaningful. So, you know, yes, there are all these measurements and numeric ROIs, but at the end of the day, many times, if you're very in numbers, you already have how much engagement is out there, how much duplicative content there is out there, how much content is not going unused out there in and of themselves, themselves, you can use that to generate ROI to just say, look, there's a tremendous opportunity to turn this jungle that we have here into into a well governed, well manicured garden. And I think we have time for a few more questions here. So one question is, you know, I'm having a hard time seeing how analyst governance is different from data governance except the different topic. You know, is there something different? Is there something extra that's needed? Is there data governance for analytics? Yeah, I think that the major distinction we were trying to do, I think that the speaker is the person who asked the question that he hit on a point that there's very similar principles here. The point is that historically, if you look at most organizations, you look at the data governance functions that are happening in there, they're very narrow in scope. They're focused around, you know, that when the data gets into the data warehouse, then that's where the responsibility ends. You know, so basically saying, well, how do, how does the data get in? What kind of, who do we allow this to consume this data? What is the classification around those data? So, you know, to stop at there is just, it's, that's all necessary, but it's insufficient from a BI governance perspective. So the way to think about BI governance, it's a broader umbrella that encompasses data governance, but also extends the principles you use in data governance to the analytics themselves, to those visualizations, to those dashboards, to the, to the spreadsheets that are created off of this data and then are consumed by the end user. I think that's a key point as well. I think, you know, oftentimes governance happens in a vacuum divorced from the users themselves and hopefully some of the things we showed, you know, show how actually governance can be helpful to the end user rather than just sort of this checks and balances thing that happens behind the scenes, right? You're going to put this effort into, you know, check the data and categorize it and tag it and certify it, you know, expose that to the end user through analytics governance practices so that they can, they can have benefit out of that. You're mute again, Shannon. So what about tools? How do you add tools to the mix, tools and environments? How does that fall into analytics governance? Yeah, I mean, so I guess I can start. I think, I think the challenge with, with a lot of environments is, you know, we're, we're all reporting in many different tools and technologies, everything from Excel to, you know, reporting in our operational systems to, you know, oftentimes multiple BI tools within an organization. I think the challenge doing that in that sort of environment is, you know, some of those tools may have some governance capabilities, others may not, you know, anywhere in between. And so, you know, I think it's very difficult to implement governance in a heterogeneous environment like that. If you don't have some sort of layer of technology on top, you know, and obviously whether that's metric insights or something else that allows you to manage governance independent of the underlying tools where the content exists, I think is important to really be able to do it successfully. Otherwise you just end up with governance happening in a lot of different vacuums across the organization. And then it becomes very difficult to report on that and understand how well it's happening. Yeah, and I think I don't know if that's what the person was getting to him from that question, but the other aspect of this is the governance of the, of the technologies. And I think there's an aspect where this enables that as well in the sense that, you know, if you're measuring utilization at a very detailed level, you can do things like, you know, look at how licenses are being used and by whom and be able to effectively, there's another area of ROI as well, effectively reallocate the license usage in such a way that you're better governing the usage of the tools that you have today, right? And there's a number of ways, we didn't really have time to get into it, but there's a number of ways in which the portal should enable that as well. And then finally, the governance process, the workflow process that might show you can also be integrated into a multi-environment scenario where you are saying, I'm going to move this content in my QA environment through in multiple stages. And as a final step, it's actually going to be going into production. There should be automation around the automatic synchronization of content into the workflow so that you can determine, you know, which is the, which are the things that are subject for promotion and certification, as well as on the back end, potentially, which are the things that are subject from going from QA to production. So there's lots of complexity around that can be integrated in the more complex enterprise environments. Well, thank you both for this great presentation and for the Q&A, but I'm afraid that is all the time that we have for today. And thanks to all of our attendees for being so engaged in everything we do. We just love all the information. We'll get you all their contact info so you can and get them the additional questions that we didn't have a chance to get to. So we get your answers to those. And just again, a reminder, I will send a follow-up email by end of day Monday with links to the slides and the recording, as well as the additional contact information for you all. Thanks again to Metric Insights for helping make this webinar happen. Really appreciate it, Mike and Marius. Thank you so much. Thanks everyone for joining us. Thank you. Bye-bye. Thanks all. Have a great day.


The Bemidji Fire Department is looking to the future and new ways to serve greater Bemidji's estimated 35,000 residents. Josh Peterson shows us how a fourth fire station will enhance and provide additional jobs for the department. The Bemidji Fire Department is looking to the future and has plans to expand their services to a growing area by adding an additional fire station. The new Northern Township location would be strategically placed so it has easy access in all directions. We've got a lot of population in our northern service area that we serve along with a lot of building value so it really makes sense for us to have a fire station up in that area. The fire station would lease space in a current building located near Highway 71 and Winter Sumac Road northeast. Through a cost sharing measure between the city of Bemidji and the Rural Fire Association the city would cover nearly 58 percent of the cost while the Rural governments pay 42 percent but a new location isn't the only addition. The department is looking to add eight additional on-call firefighters to the staff. We're looking at adding eight additional paid on-call firefighters to our roster. I don't know if all eight of them will be assigned up there. We'll look at that internally. At tonight's Bemidji City Council meeting council members had the opportunity to ask questions regarding the proposal and echo the fire chief's words. You have had the conversation with the relief association and the relief association is okay with adding the additional eight. You say you have room for up to 12 more. The opportunity with residents living there to respond to that station or for the net benefit that helps the property protection for the people that are fire department serves. Bemidji's fire department serves 522 square miles and depends on the teamwork provided by the Rural Fire Association. Bemidji Mayor Rita Albright said this was the right thing to do. We need their help to help to protect the city of Bemidji as well and so this seems to be a way that we can show our support for that. Receiving a unanimous vote of support the fourth fire station will move forward. In Bemidji, Josh Peterson, Lakeland News. The fire department hopes to move into the northern township location by July 1st. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Is What's good Josh your boy Ross back again with another video, so Tonight was an amazing night for wrestling. I must say that It was it was dope to see two different shows two different companies NXT AEW Dynamite putting their best foot forward and I guess you can say, you know, we had the Monday Night Wars back in Early 90s and mid mid 90s and now we got the win that Wednesday Night Wars So I'm gonna give my thoughts on both shows after the end of this reaction. I did see this live This was pretty dope John Moxley attacks Kenny Omega's a pretty sick table spot. The crowd was hyped I I was hyped.  Like this was this was pretty dope very entertaining I feel like both shows put the best foot forward for us fans wrestling fans And at the end of the day, we all win as wrestling fans We all win when it comes to just being entertained So I'm gonna give my thoughts on both shows, but let's check this out real quick Make sure y'all like the video make sure y'all comment down below What was your favorite part from each of the shows man? Let's let's start a discussion in the comment section, but I love interacting with y'all So let's get into it When you hear the crowd like pops That's so great That crowd was alive. Oh man This was so dope He pushes the camera out of the way. This is just this was just chaotic.  He was supposed to have a match Well, he was in a match a six six man match and he just got broken up by John Marksley. I love it This is so then he puts the security guy. I don't know if you saw that he puts the security guy So they go back to the match at hand. It's 3v2 situation, but they cut back to this This is so dope Just Man, this is so just lively.   That was a nice little spot.  It's a little quick clip, man. That that was to me one of the highlights of AEW Dynamite. I also enjoyed I forgot his name is what his name or what he goes by now, but it was used to be Jack Swagger and WWE And I believe he went to MMA. I He was doing well in MMA He was doing well in MMA I think he's undefeated in MMA and then now well, he was doing some like I believe after he left WWE He was doing some wrestling things and went to MMA did well there now. He's back with AEW. He was pretty much attacking Cody Rose Dustin Rose Who else was there in the ring at the time of the Young Bucks? They basically was beating down the baby faces and it looks like Jericho has a nice little heel faction I don't know maybe so we can see but it was cool seeing him the crowd really pop But for me, that was like that was pretty dope That was one of the highlights segments of the show the John Moxley Attacking Kenny Omega. They're really putting fuel to the fire with their feud. I'm looking forward to their upcoming pay-per-view I believe it's in November. I'm not sure correct me if I'm wrong but yeah, man, uh, this was just overall the feel of AEW this very first show you can tell by the skill like it was legit showed out You know how WWE say they're sold out But a lot of times you can't really see like the the audience on the hard camp side So there there'd be like a lot of empty seats, but you wouldn't see it You know I'm saying this was legit looks like it was sold out. The venue was packed. It was lively. The crowd was energetic There was some pretty good matches. I I enjoyed the women's match. I enjoyed the very first match Cody Rose had I forgot the dude's name correct me correct me in in the bottom Correct me in the chat not chat in the comment section I forgot his name, but that match was entertaining once again a lot of these wrestlers from on this company I'm kind of new to so it's gonna take me a while to get accustomed to who they are the names and Get their background information, but that's the brilliance of this I'm I'm kind of new to this group of wrestling wrestlers so for them other than ones that I know Park and Hangman page and a decent alright match, but For the most part this was for me.   He's basically going to be back on NXT now, which honestly I Can understand why they do that. They don't really have a need I mean they they could use him on the main roster, but they're not going to effectively in my opinion So the fact that he's back On NXT is pretty cool he was kind of giving a Adam Cole the the look over like a I'm back on NXT now. So don't get too comfortable with that championship of the match with Adam Cole and what's the other dude's name Matt Riddle thing. There we go. I had I knew I I don't know what's going on with me, man, but yeah, it was Matt Riddle. That was an interesting match I enjoyed that for sure. That was definitely interesting That was a in that was a NXT takeover worthy championship match I knew Matt Riddle wasn't gonna win, but Adam Cole did win for the most part clean It was an enjoyable match the Shayna Baszler versus Candice Loray. That was an enjoyable match. I enjoyed that match. Um, I want to say Johnny Gargano versus, I don't know the other dude's name coming down below. I forgot his name That match was pretty cool. I enjoyed that and overall this that whole NXT show for For tonight was pretty good. It was it was definitely good. I enjoyed it I think one of the biggest highlights obviously Tommaso Ciampa coming back Staring down the NXT championship aka Goldy just staring staring it down Letting Adam Carl know your time is almost up breath. I'm coming back for Goldy I'm coming back for my title. So I'm looking forward to what these shows are gonna be producing for the next couple of weeks NXT was definitely more wrestling oriented. It was a lot of great wrestling and AEW Dynamite was more so it has some good wrestling in it, but it was more so like Spectacle it was more so Just the atmosphere and just you know, like really I guess you could say progressing storylines It was it was it was some storylines being progressed for feuds and potential feuds and stuff like that But it wasn't as much heavy wrestling oriented Like NXT was tonight. So but honestly, they both killed it tonight. If I had to go With one if I had to choose and this one's tough I'm not gonna lie if I had to choose who won the first week of these Wednesday wars.  They were hot, but it's full sale. It's not as big of a venue You know, so it's it's more confined more and intimate as an AEW that would that one looked like a premier like a premier pay-per-view event how lively and energetic the crowd was like you only see those type of crowds on WWE main roster like on the major wrestling Pay-per-views or like a Monday night Raw after WrestleMania, it's only time you really see those type of crowds and maybe like the wrestling cities like Philly, Chicago New York, but this crowd was just am so I'm gonna give the slight edge to AEW just because of the atmosphere along and it was new and they it was just entertaining and I'll give them a slight edge with NXT killed it on the wrestling aspect They were hella entertainings too as well. I would honestly say this was a mini takeover episode Honestly, so they both killed it slight as AEW comment down below Who do y'all think won the war tonight? AEW Dynamite or NXT comment down below. Let's give a discussion whether y'all looking forward to are y'all looking forward To next week to see where things go with storylines Which shows are y'all gonna watch more are y'all gonna watch AEW more next week? Are y'all gonna watch NXT more next week or y'all just gonna watch both and it doesn't really matter and it's just great wrestling finally One day out of the week in multiple companies more than two different companies I mean NXT has always been killing it for the most part, but now you can see it on like national television It was only on the WWE Network, but now it's on national television So a lot more people can get you know get their eyes familiar with these different characters on NXT and AEW is Trying to create new stars man. Appreciate y'all kicking it with me


So what's going on everyone, got our brand new movie review for you guys today and today I'm discussing Bohemian Rhapsody, ready Freddy? Let's talk about it. Bohemian Rhapsody chronicles the life of Freddie Mercury leading up to the live aid concert. Of course this film was one of my most anticipated films for the rest of the year, one being I'm a big Queen fan, two being Queen's one of the best bands ever made and three being it has stars Remy Malek, one of the most underrated talents who's still coming up in today's age. He's very young in his filmography so it's cool to see that he's going to play Freddie Mercury in here. This film made me realize three things. One, I'm so jealous I will never ever be able to see Queen live, especially with Freddie Mercury singing. Rest in peace man, you are where a talent. Two, it made me appreciate Queen even more. Three, Remy Malek is going to be the next Daniel Day Lewis. You heard it here first. With that last statement I should probably address some big performance in here. I mean the movie does not work without your lead performance being excellent. And I think Remy Malek pushes this film above excellency because of how well he transformed into Freddie Mercury. I mean in a sense Mercury would be so proud to see this movie. He'd be so happy because he's represented so well in this movie and Remy Malek understood that he knew if he couldn't do it right then what's the point of even doing this kind of movie. And he embodied him in every ounce of the way his mannerisms, his singing, the way that he just was. You watch any live concert, any interview with Mercury, you see that. And Remy Malek just embodied him. Not in just the way that he looked, but again within his mannerisms, his energy, his charismatic love. And just you can tell he had so much passion going into this person. And it just, you feel it. In a sense, I'll even go as far as say I don't see why you should even have a best actor category at the Oscars this year because you mail him the award at this point because Malek killed it. He transformed in it and there was not one point in this movie. I was like, oh that's Remy Malek. No, that is Freddie Mercury. You brought him back to life in some way shape or form. Every other performance in here really works to tooth and nail. Everyone just brings their A game, especially, might I say, Mike Myers in a very small role that I hope to see later on the role that he does just do more stuff. I miss you, Mike Myers. If you're watching this review, please do some more movies.  It was nice seeing you in Bohemian Rhapsody. And one of the most brilliant parts about Bohemian Rhapsody was the way that the story was told, the way that it chronicles Freddie Mercury's life. You get to learn more about him and just who he was as a person. There were some things that I would have liked to be touched on a little bit more of, and I even think the film could have even benefited from being even a little bit longer. I think you could have added maybe 25 more minutes. Maybe that's just me, but the pacing was so fast, especially within the first act where at times I will admit, the first act is a little choppy, but it got better and better and better, which is probably the more beneficial thing to have within a movie is to have the film get better as it goes on and not get worse as it goes on. The reason I feel like the first act kind of was a little too fast. It wanted to get us to the Queen moment. I wanted to get a little bit more of Mercury's home life and to get and establish his family life in a sense. We didn't get much of that. And I feel like the film could have tackled it a little bit more with his family and even with the bandmates. I think we could have tackled more elements of them because as great as the bandmates are, you don't know much about them. They're very surface leveled in this movie and very one note. The performances are great. And when they're getting emotional, they're getting emotional, but you never get to know more about them. I understand this is a Freddie Mercury biopic, but they're a part of the story. They're a part of his family in a sense. You want to know a little bit more about them. This is the Freddie Mercury biopic. One of the best things about the film is the way that it is a coming of age story for a guy. That's a really heartfelt story of a guy who's just trying to find himself in this world. We'll go through these parts of our lives where we just want to find out who we really are. And in a sense, Mercury is finding himself within this story. He's going through the motions.  And it is tackled in such a heartfelt and passionate way within this movie that I was so appreciative to see it because I didn't know how much they were going to tackle it. And they tackled it very well. And I think that's what one of these kind of a stories is. It's a coming out story. It's a coming of age story in a sense for Freddie Mercury himself and getting to know more about him, getting there about the man himself and understanding him more. As it leads up to the finale, it gives one of the best third acts in any film. Just mostly because it's just building up to this ferocious concert live aid that they recreated to perfection. I mean, to perfection. I've watched real life footage of this before on YouTube. And it was great to see what they show here and how they recreated. I don't know how they did, but man, there has to be some acclaim for all the cast and crew involved on that part. Bohemian Rhapsody. A Chronicles Freddie Mercury's life. And in a sense, this film is a champion of its own. It will rock you. And it's something different. It redefines a lot of the musical biopics that we have seen before. And I think touches it in a lot of great ways. This is easily one of the best performances in a long, long time. And man, I'll be shocked if he does not win. And especially if he does not get nominated.  I loved Bohemian Rhapsody even with the small nitpicks that I do have with it. It is the biggest recommendation I can give to Queen fans, to biopic fans, and to musical fans of all alike. Even if you're not a big Queen fan, I think this film is worth checking out. So with all that said, I'm going to give Bohemian Rhapsody an A. Almost great. And I can't wait to hear your guys' thoughts on the movie. So comment down below and tell me what your thoughts are on Bohemian Rhapsody. Are you excited for it? Let's talk about it down below. And guys, tell me what is your favorite Queen song? Let's discuss it right down there as well. Personally, my favorite is another one, Bite the Dust. I love listening to that song. I listen to it every single day. And it's just one of those songs that you can just get down to you. But don't get me wrong, Bohemian Rhapsody, that song is... It's a classic. You gotta listen to it. So guys, if you guys are new here and you guys want to check out some movies early, go hit up Sandwich on Films also down below, because right down there you guys can get into advanced movie scenes. You can check out some movie news and even some movie reviews. But guys, of course, until next time, stay classy.


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So me and Davey had to get stoopling quantity too, and this was the look that I was planning on wearing I even considered going like full scene girl with my hair kind of like a throwback to my younger self But then the show got cancelled and then I thought well at least I can show you the look that I was planning on wearing It's kind of a mixture between my usual style and that kind of a old style scene girl It's really easy to create just a few simple steps. So let's get started creating this look So we're going to start by applying an eyeshadow primer all over the lid This is going to create a blank canvas for us to work on give us a really good base Especially when we are going to be applying black so it's really important to prep the lid even though back in the day I should have cameras were not a thing However, the next step was kind of a thing using a NYX jumbo eye pencil or some sort of a cream eyeshadow And applying this onto the lid and then up to the crease kind of a little throwback And then I also wanted to go a little old-school by using a shadow shield I haven't used one of these in so long But it's a great way to get matching angles for your wings and because we are going to be using a black matte eyeshadow I will take all the help I can get so I'm going to start by painting over a little bit of the nude Eyeshadow over the top of the tape to create the angle and create a good base for the black The great thing about scene makeup is the freedom to be just a little bit messy So you don't have to be too perfect with it apply the black and don't be scared of it because we have the base underneath Which will create a good grip so you don't have to worry too much about fallout But then we also have the tape there to create the angle so just really get it on there and This is bringing back so many memories. Does anybody else feel it or is it just me? Are there any seen people or emo people out there? Let me know because you know the funny thing I used to go from being preppy girl to skater girl in like one weekend I just loved expressing myself in so many different ways Once we have the black on there We're then going to be using a lighter matte nude shadow just to set the cream base and just to blend out any harsh lines that we might have with the black and then you can go ahead and remove the tape and I like to buff the Edges just to make sure it's not too harsh on that outer edge Just with whatever is left over on the brush and then just bring it up into my crease and just blend around the crease area You can even add a little bit of your bronzer or even a little bit of your blush just into that crease area to bring the entire look together Apply some mascara and some lashes before moving on to the lower lash line Which we're seeing girl was so important almost as important as the upper wing I also love this brush by Blancow's cosmetics I am a brand ambassador but the e44 is like an old favorite that has become my new Newest oldest favorite. It's so amazing. I forgot how good it is. Definitely check it out I'll put a link below you want to apply the black underneath the lower lashes on the outer third to outer half of the lash line Now I am a little bit old to be pulling this look off But hey, you know what if you can feel it you can rock it go ahead and do it But just make sure that you are smudging it out with a deep brown This will just soften out any harsh lines and just give you more of that blown-out effect Which actually opens up the eyes and makes them look a little bit bigger and that is the finished look It's more of a wearable seen girl who's in her mid 30s now and still wants to give a little hint back to her younger self Now if I could only find my stripy socks and arm warmers, I would be good to go I hope you guys had a great week Let me know if you were gonna go to the concert because I wish I could have seen you guys there And hopefully I'll see you when it gets rescheduled and let me know if you were a seen girl Or maybe you still are which is really cool But whoever you were or you are now just remember to be kind to yourself Be kind to your younger self and I will see you in a video really soon


Nicholas says that there's a fine, Nicholas Rare, your teammate. Yeah. He says there's a fine for too many questions in the offensive line. Has he been fined a lot this year? I don't think it's Nick should be discussing our fine system. And that will probably turn into a fine. Is he the guy who likes to ask a lot of questions then? Yeah, I think our room is, I think our room is, we do a good job of keeping it light with the guys that are in there. But at the same time, we're in there to learn. And we're in there to work on our techniques. And I don't think anybody should ever feel uncomfortable asking a question. So he does a great job of asking questions, but a lot of guys do too. Did you dislocate a finger or something on the first play the other night? I'm not here to disclose injuries. But clearly something was bothering you. How frustrating was it that you were in? I had something on my finger that came out. And I had to do a couple of plays with one hand. And we went in there and we had a great training staff. And they put it together or whatever it was. And I went back in and did the plays I needed to do. You still got a couple of weeks to go. But how has this camp been as far as getting you primed and ready for the start of the season? Yeah, I mean, I think every day is being, you got to do your best to be as diligent every single day. You get like 25 practices or however many it's been since we've been here.  It seems like Groundhog's Day every single day. And it's your job as professional to make sure you work on that 1% every single day. So it's a difficult thing to do because the practices get long. It's hot out here and everything. But I think every day I'm getting better towards where I need to be at week one. And I think it's been a relatively consistent camp. We got some really good talent on the other side of the ball that I'm going against. So I'm confident. Has you spent more years in the league? Do you find yourself using more tricks and more things that maybe Wiley veterans know about that young guys don't to get the job done? There's things you can do in certain situations. I think when people start learning tricks, especially in offensive line, they tend to kind of go a little overboard with it. Like I'm going to do this all the time and make it my fastball. My goal in camp, I have my change ups that I like to do that have been really good for me in the past. So I have those and I sharpen those up when the time is right, whether it's doing one-on-ones or in the run game in certain situations. But for me, in these situations, going against a guy like Bud and Harold and Ola, and we've, it's good to work on the fastball, the right technique that they want you to do. There's going to be times when you get yourself in a pinch and you're out leveraging a lot of ways and you have to do a couple of those Wiley things you were speaking of. But in practice, for me, it's really about getting those fundamentals done the right way. And then in the game, that's we can do a couple of things to help you out here and there. Giving you some pretty good looks out there? Yeah, Bud's a stud. I think it's a really good example of two guys going out every single day and we're both learning each other every single play. And so there's days I get the best of him and vice versa. So it's been a, I've been very fortunate to go against Bud this camp. Been just for myself and my growth and continuing to try to get better in year nine. He's an explosive and powerful player and it gives me a great opportunity every single day. How much of a difference do you notice in him from last year when he was coming off the maze? Yeah, he seems like it. He's going. So I'm excited for him. And us both going through the same injury last year and both having our ups and downs throughout the season, it's nice to get out there and both of us feel good playing. Taylor, you hear a lot about O-line continuity. And this is the first time in a while where you've had a couple of positions where it seems like guys are fighting for it, even shuffling spots today. Are you comfortable with where the continuity is right now that you'll be where you need to be on September 11th? Yeah, I think every single day, regardless of who they put in there or who's in the game, there's a standard that this O-line has and we're graded on three separate things. And I think every single guy on this roster put into this situation, regardless of talent level, is going to fill those three things. And I think that's a huge change that we've had, especially since Vrabel and Keith have been here. Those three things. I can't tell you, that's interior stuff, baby. That's a need to know basis. That's a fine for both of you. You just pointed JJ Watts, not going to be here this week. A little bit, yeah.  People get on him.  But at the end of the day, he's a stud football player and it would have been really a good thing for me to go against him. But they got, they got, they got studs over there. You know, they got some good players. So another opportunity this week, I think we handled Tampa Bay coming in the right way. I think the guys were there and it's, you know, we talked about this in the beginning of camp how no one really likes joint practices. None of the players go in there and go, yes, because it's football with no rules.  So, you know, these guys were going to handle it the same way we handled it with Tampa Bay and going there with an attitude to get better. And, you know, it's unfortunate he's not going to be there, but whatever he's doing, I'm sure it's important. Question asked, but you got to go and take a minute. You got to, to series the other night. Do you want to play more this week, especially after last year, you've talked about being healthy and going, do you want to see significant action Saturday night or how do you feel about that? I'll do whatever Vrable wants me to do. Whatever Vrable and John decide they want me to do, I will gladly, and I will gladly do that. I don't know how you feel like the group as a whole maybe is from a readiness standpoint for the regular season and what maybe would you like to do here the last couple of weeks before you get going? I think the group has been doing a great job.  This last pre-season game, you know, we got some hands on some pass breakups. We got some forest fumbles. Great tackling by my boy Kalu. As overall, we had good communication and so far I think we've been doing a great job. Did you get out of Saturday where you were looking to do playing a few reps? Yeah, I got a couple of tackles. You know, I got my body on some of the running backs and saw some looks that I wanted to see live action and I was able to get those. What have you seen from Lonnie Johnson since he came in? I remember he had like a pick in his first practice, made some nice plays in the pre-season game. How have you seen him acclimate himself with it kind of being closer than to training camp? Yeah, I mean, he got here and he was ready to learn. You know, he's a guy that he came out the same time I did. I trained with him a little bit down in Florida and so I knew him a little bit from there but I mean, fast kid, athletic kid, and smart kid. I mean, he's came in here, we've thrown a lot at him and he's been able to pick a lot up. We just had some time early on here and camp was, was that frustrating for you when you're looking to try and build on what you did last year? Yeah, it's frustrating. But then again, you know, I want to make sure I'm fully healthy.  So, and I was able to be out here last couple of weeks and able to get some reps versus the Bucks and then be out there live action. What do you guys, week one last year, does that add any excitement to getting them out here on the practice field this week? Yeah, definitely. I mean, having a quarterback that can move around, run around like that and a spread offense that can throw the ball and receivers can run. I mean, we had a great mix this preseason.  And now we're about to be a passing team we're going to go against. So it's going to be a great practice for us to go against. Well, what do you tell the young guys? Obviously, cuts going on. There'll be a lot more next week. What do you tell young guys that are in the room who obviously know what's coming to kind of focus and not pay attention to it? Is that hard to do, you think?  But I mean, we just tell our guys to keep competing and keep playing. Like, I mean, no matter what's going on, if you just full go, keep learning, keep listening. I mean, it's not just the Titans that are looking at you. There's other teams around the league that are looking at you. So just do it for the teammates and then do it for yourself and then go out there and finish. It's a great week. I mean, it's great importance for that.  So I mean, you just gotta make sure that as a leader that we can build that room up, make sure guys that are buying in.  How's camp been as far as getting your prime for the season? I don't know whether you guys still hit a wall in the camp with the way the schedule is now, the regeneration days, or how you think the team has managed it as a whole? I think it's been a great camp.  I mean, since I've been here as far as, you know, coach taking care of us, making sure that we have certain temples in practice where, you know, guy might not be full goal. He might be jogged through for this period. But I think we've done a great job preparing for the season to start. I mean, we haven't had as much injuries as we had last year going into the season. I know we had a lot during the season. We want to make sure that we minimize that. So you physically know there's a difference with how they're kind of managing things? Yeah, you can tell the difference. I mean, I feel like last year it was a little bit longer days, a little bit more contact days. And this year it's more managing. And I think you're doing a great job because we're still out here working, still out here getting all the physical stuff that we need to get done that we're getting accomplished. How big has that been for both sides of the Baltas generally to have that opportunity to build consistency day to day? It's very big. I mean, we want to stack our days. We want to stack victories and stack Ws, whether that's in the game or whether that's just a daily, day to day basis and just throughout practice. Theo Jackson returned today, but obviously missed a lot of time. Do you, when you see a rookie miss so much time, is there anything you feel like as an older player that you want or need to say to a guy like that just to stay patient? Yeah, for that it's just, you know, get healthy and then just stay in the playbook because when you get back, you know, you can't be far behind. You got to be right where we are as far as details and what we're doing as a scheme wise. But for that, you know, he's got to make sure he's get back healthy and then make sure he's just not falling behind. Yeah, you know, we went back in the red zone, which was, I thought, good. You know, that's critical. Talked about how much of the game is spending red zone in two minutes. So we got both of those in there today. You know, worked in some heat. I thought, you know, continuing to work on our conditioning, which is critical. First until you're playing left side and right side and you said you can't have any complications, Annabelle. How impressed have you been with him? Just with how he's able to work at both of those positions? Well, I mean, I think that that's something that we're always looking for. Is that you have some versatility and flexibility to play more than one position?    Dylan kind of in a situation where you're able to use his versatility, get him some work at guard and all. Yep, just trying to shuffle guys around. Just really just trying to shuffle guys around and see, you know, we've got had some guys out and just trying to figure out where guys are gonna be best served for themselves and for us. Well, always just seeing how they protect.  You know, whether that's the running back, but especially the quarterback. You know, when you talk about linemen in general, it's how they function through, you know, movement and post snap and where their awareness is to be able to work to certain guys. Things are changing. The center's making calls and that happens pretty quickly. How they process that with their level of finish and how instinctive they can be when things start moving. Could happen this week, they could change your mind from which way you're leaning either way right now.  You know what I mean? Guys playing well and, you know, continuing to improve. I think it's something that I'll always look for that we're continuing to show improvement. We should make there's some things a little bit different against, you know, this week against Arizona. What might those practices look like over your go?  Yeah, we'll probably, you know, we'll only practice against them on Wednesday, you know? So, you know, just from a health standpoint, you know, Cliff and I decided that that was best for our football teams at this point in time. A lot of good one-on-one work, you know, receivers and DBs and, you know, getting some pass rush in, getting some seven on seven. And then we'll split up, we'll do some work against ourselves, you know, Tennessee on Tennessee and then we'll come back together for two minutes.  What's your, I guess a week away from final roster cuts. How much do you tell guys, don't worry about it, do you notice guys' nerves a little bit more? I mean, I don't think so. I mean, we just played a game, we came in, made corrections and, you know, looked like everybody that was available was out there trying to work and compete. Yeah, I mean, I just don't really want to start counting. You know, I just want to see them do things that are going to, you know, force them to be on this football team. So, you know, now's not the time to start counting. There's a lot of practices and the valuations left. How much is race improved as a route runner beyond just a deep post or a go route? I mean, I think he's improved in a lot of facets. I think he's more comfortable just in the verbiage and the terminology and where he's lining up. There's a lot to it. And so I think he's gotten a lot more comfortable on just, you know, understanding where he fits and just overall on the receiver and special teams. And so we just have to keep improving.  You know, the other night, I just, you know, the thing we told him was that he's got to try to go up and attack it.  So just go up and try to attack the ball like we've seen him do. A guy like Weaver, you know, who's doing some things that takes the practice field, the game field, and gets rewarded. How important is that in the teaching process? Well, the only way, yeah, the only way that, you know, I mean, it's like we talk about how you develop players or called coaches or people. And I think you have to be able to identify what they do well. And then you have to identify the area of focus and try to be creative in how you come up with ways to get them to improve, whether it be drills or film. And then obviously, as they start to improve, there has to be some small victories along the way, whether that's they move up in a depth chart, you know, they get reps earlier in the game, playtime. Recognition in front of the team, I think, is always something that these guys that we all appreciate. And so having some small victories along the way certainly reinforces the improvement. Chick, take the touchdown in the game and build on it out here in the practice field? Yeah, I thought there was some good things. You know, look at the film. But he's trying to figure out how to play fast. He's got to be able to work through some traffic. You know, I think Malik and, you know, on the touchdown that you referenced, Chick probably had the easiest job and he kind of took a right turn and took the long way to get over there, but the protection was fantastic and Malik was good in the pocket and worked through the progression. So Chick had no choice but to catch it. How are your builds down trail, Ben, since he's been here and with the full off season and now a training camp? Has he been able to expand his role and what he's capable of? I think we're trying to do more with him based on his skill set. And, you know, the thing I'm probably the most appreciative about down trail is how interested in making a role and defining a role on special teams. I mean, he's lining up and says, I want to be the PP, you know, I want to be the personal protector and we know how important that role is and that's probably been the thing that I've appreciated the most is not only what we're trying to do and the role that he's trying to create on offense is his willingness to say, I want to have a role on special teams. With that specific role, Kevin's done it for so long and been very valuable for them. Would there be a value to get a guy like Kevin who does so much for you defensively out of that role and find somebody else or do you think about it much? Yeah, Kevin hasn't been our PP for a couple years. So he didn't do it last year, but he has done it. You're exactly right. We did that. I listened to you and I did it a year earlier than what you wanted. So that's the quarter, you know what I mean? For that play, that guy's the quarterback.  There's a lot to that. So Kevin was good at it.  I mean, they're very coachable. You know what I mean? Coming out of that game, you know, those backs were a bright spot on offense, thought that they ran hard and they both did some good things on special teams as well. This time, last week, you mentioned Hassan had impressed you with his past protection and made it a little bit easier for him in the route game and stuff. Do you think those things are, were still true in the game with Tampa? Yeah, Tori got more of the protection. Lux, the Blitz pickups, Hassan, you know, may have had a few opportunities and I think he was, you know, ready for him. I don't think there was anything claring that he missed. Me saw the route that he caught when Malik, you know, extended the play. You know, that's pretty unique from a running back.