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Combine transactional, streaming, and third-party data on Amazon Redshift for financial services

AWS Big Data

The following are some of the key business use cases that highlight this need: Trade reporting – Since the global financial crisis of 2007–2008, regulators have increased their demands and scrutiny on regulatory reporting. You can run a direct query from QuickSight for BI reporting and dashboards.

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Five Strategies for Slaying the Data Puking Dragon.

Occam's Razor

Your recent audit of the output of your analytics organization found that 160 analytics reports are delivered every month. Your digital performance dashboard has 16 metrics along 9 dimensions, and you know that the font-size 6 text and sparkline sized charts make them incomprehensible. What do you do? How do you cull? Kill the rest.

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Knowledge

Occam's Razor

Delibrate Your Data, Dig Into Your Data, Reimagine Content Reporting. The Difference Between Web Reporting And Web Analysis. Refuse Report Requests. Consultants, Analysts: Present Impactful Analysis, Insightful Reports. The Awesome Power of Visualization 2 -> Death and Taxes 2007. The Best Web Analytics Report.

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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. Circle of Friends was a social community built atop Facebook that launched in 2007. Online, offline or nonline. Yet this structure rarely exists in companies.

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"Dear Avinash": Be Awesome At Comparing KPI Trends Over Time

Occam's Razor

In this post we'll cover a topic near and dear to all our hearts, comparing trends of our Key Performance Indicators and two specific strategies you can use to drive action. We make some reports that track month over month change and others with year over year change. Let's go. the question first.

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How to Choose the Best Analytics Platform, and Empower Business-Driven Analytics

Grooper

Traditional data sources like end of month statements and quarterly reports are no longer enough. It includes the reports, charts, dashboards, and terminology unique to your organization. Key Language of Applied Analytics. The vocabulary of applied analytics includes words and concepts such as: Key performance indicators (KPIs).