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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

In this type of an environment, I've frequently stressed the value of identifying targets for your key performance indicators. should be 1,356,000), you've set a clear line in the sand as to what performance will be declared a success or a failure at the end of the measurement time period.

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7 Data Presentation Tips: Think, Focus, Simplify, Calibrate, Visualize++

Occam's Razor

A vast majority of occasions where data is presented (reports, executive dashboards, conference presentations, or just plain here's a automated emailed thingy from Google Analytics ) end up being abject failures because most of the discussion is still about the data. When you design dashboards this is absolutely critical.

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Great Storytelling With Data: Visualize Simply And Focus Obsessively

Occam's Razor

We send out our multi-tab spreadsheets, our best Google Analytics custom reports , our great dashboards full of data , and more to the tactical layer of data clients. Second, between 2012 and 2013. You are just comparing performance, and the numbers would only clutter the slide. It is really 88%. : ). The reason is quite simple.

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What Is Embedded Analytics?

Jet Global

Companies like Tableau (which raised over $250 million when it had its IPO in 2013) demonstrated an unmet need in the market. Their dashboards were visually stunning. In turn, end users were thrilled with the bells and whistles of charts, graphs, and dashboards. Yes—but basic dashboards won’t be enough.