Count + dbt: Making your data models radically transparent
Written by The Count Team
"Revolutionize data modeling with Count + dbt: Import, analyze, and export models seamlessly for radical transparency and collaboration."
dbt has fundamentally changed how most data teams work. It lets them create, and maintain complex data transformation models that power nearly every dashboard, report, and insight within an organization. While the Count canvas is already a valuable way to explore anddebugyour dbt models, today’s launch significantly improves that experience.
By connecting the Count canvas to your team’s dbt Cloud instance you can not only see relevant metadata (e.g. test results, freshness) on your tables before querying them, but you can reanimate the logic behind your models in unprecedented ways. Each model (and its parents) can be imported to the canvas, and its CTEs decomposed into a DAG of cells and run against your live database. This means you can: