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Remove Your Rose Tinted Glasses: Data Visualizations Designed to Mislead

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1) Misleading Data Visualization Examples. 2) How to Avoid Misleading Visuals. 3) The Impact Of Bad Data Visualizations. But while that may be the case, people are duped by data visualizations every day. Bad data visualizations come in many forms, with some more obvious than others. Table of Contents.

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NHL turns to venue metrics data to drive sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

In October, the league, with partner SAP, launched NHL Venue Metrics, a sustainability platform that teams and their venue partners can use for data collection, validation, and reporting and insights. Mitchell says the league is thinking of NHL Venue Metrics in the same way. “We SAP is the technical lead on NHL Venue Metrics.

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Top 10 Management Reporting Best Practices To Create Effective Reports

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When these reports are backed up with powerful visualizations developed with a dashboard creator , no information can stay hidden, eliminating thus the possibility of human errors and negative business impact. Contrasting different KPIs and metrics against each other. They’re also slow.

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Create threshold alerts on tables and pivot tables in Amazon QuickSight

AWS Big Data

Now, QuickSight supports creating threshold alerts on tables and pivot tables—our most popular visual types. In this post, we share how to create threshold alerts on tables or pivot tables to track important metrics. In addition, you can create multiple alerts off of one visual, and rename them as appropriate.

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It's Not The Ink, It's The Think: 6 Effective Data Visualization Strategies

Occam's Razor

There is only one simple message above, and just two metrics that matter. Delete anything that's redundant, and simply visualize what's left for sharper focus. The challenge of course is that it is quite odd to see that the 2,120k number is on a graph that is visually lower than 106k. My approach was simple.

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A Guide To Starting A Career In Business Intelligence & The BI Skills You Need

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics also states that in 2015, the annual median salary for BI analysts was $81,320. To simplify things, you can think of back-end BI skills as more technical in nature and related to building BI platforms, like online data visualization tools. This beats projections for almost all other occupations.

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PASS Financials: past, present and the Future:

Jen Stirrup

My analysis is based on the Financial statements put forward by PASS using some basic metrics; until you do that piece, you can’t move forward to compare and contrast it with other data since you have not done your ‘descriptive statistical analysis’ first to ensure that the comparison is valid. million). Let me draw that out for you.

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