Depict Data Studio

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

I took her Soar Beyond the Dusty Shelf Report mini course and I am now working through her Simple Spreadsheets data analysis course. When I founded Community Evaluation Solutions (CES), I told myself it was: okay to make mistakes, and I never wanted to stop learning. Our Organization’s Transformation.

Reporting 101

Reporting Visualization Data Processing IT 101

datapine

JUNE 5, 2019

We’ll discuss the primary features or benefits of BI-powered dashboards in due course. However, what you (the end user) see are simple tables, charts, and graphs – all in real time. One of the biggest advantages data dashboards have over more traditional spreadsheets is that they are almost infinitely customizable and flexible.

Dashboards 316

Dashboards KPI Sales Visualization 316

Depict Data Studio

JUNE 2, 2020

One of the primary reasons for taking Ann’s data visualization course, Great Graphs , was to learn better ways to use Microsoft Excel as a visualization tool. Here’s how my own work and my students’ work evolved after taking the data visualization course. My Own Challenges to Communicating Results.

Visualization 52

Visualization Statistics Reporting Finance 52

Depict Data Studio

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Ben joined as a special guest at Office Hours (special live sessions for full course students where we share ideas and give feedback on each other’s projects). He started his own business 5 years ago teaching online courses using Google software. Prior to that he was an accountant which is how he got his start with spreadsheets.

Dashboards 52

Dashboards Consulting Visualization Software 52

Jedox

DECEMBER 3, 2020

How will you keep the user experience as simple as possible? Legacy solution users will also want to look for familiar features: an in-memory OLAP database, an easy to model multi-cube architecture and cell-based spreadsheet style reporting. Cost, of course, is always an important consideration.

OLAP 56

OLAP Cost-Benefit Data-driven Finance 56

Jet Global

APRIL 9, 2021

Of course, Oracle provides native reporting and analytics tools in Oracle ERP Cloud, but in many cases, those tools do not address the specific needs of finance teams. Finance teams no longer have the luxury of time to manually copy and paste data from multiple systems into Excel spreadsheets for analysis.

Operational Reporting 52

Operational Reporting Reporting Finance Interactive 52

Jedox

MAY 7, 2020

To successfully move from outdated spreadsheet workflows to using integrated financial planning, there are important considerations on this path. The recognition that old structures in FP&A must be revamped is of course old news, yet many organizations are still struggling with doing the needed revamp.

Uncertainty 86

Uncertainty Digital Transformation Finance Risk 86

Jet Global

JANUARY 6, 2020

Arming decision-makers across the enterprise with the best, most current information helps them bring the future into focus while making the right course of action clear. Hubble removes the IT team from the equation by offering users at all levels a reporting toolkit that’s simple enough to facilitate true self-serve reporting.

Reporting 83

Reporting Finance Consulting Software 83

Jet Global

MARCH 23, 2020

It explains what forces led the company to its present position, what that means for the stakeholders involved, and what the next course of action should be. These visualizations were available before, of course, but they were extremely time- and labor-intensive to produce, and rare as a result.

Visualization 59

Visualization Advertising Data-driven Finance 59

Depict Data Studio

JULY 13, 2021

They were recently guest speakers in our Simple Spreadsheets course and had so many great insights! – — Thank you to Ann Emery, Depict Data Studio, and her Simple Spreadsheets class for inviting us to talk to them about the use of statistics in nonprofit program evaluation! & Alison Nagel, Ph.D

Statistics 98

Statistics Testing Recreation/Entertainment Experimentation 98

Juice Analytics

MARCH 1, 2022

Of course this isn’t a problem created by Tableau. Rename or alias field names to be clear and simple, especially for Quick Tableau Calcs. Instant Juicebox Score: 4 This is an important concept: you don’t want to expose your dashboard audience to the messy data field labels that come from your spreadsheet or database.

Dashboards 64

Dashboards Visualization Interactive Data Processing 64

Jet Global

JANUARY 22, 2020

Turning raw data into actionable or strategic insights typically involves putting it through a financial reporting process based around the ERP and an army of static Excel spreadsheets. Common as this problem may be, the solution is surprisingly simple: Take the heavy-lifting out of financial reporting.

Reporting 78

Reporting Snapshot Data-driven Uncertainty 78

Sisense

JANUARY 7, 2022

” Despite the need to be agile, efficient, and transparent in managing risk, alarmingly, some corporations are still using spreadsheets instead of robust learning management systems. The reinsurer now plans to roll out the DGF course within the IT division as mandatory training. Minimising risk by ‘infusing’ AI.

Risk Management 52

Risk Management Risk Management Dashboards 52

Jet Global

JANUARY 4, 2021

Capturing data from an organization’s frontlines within the framework of continuous financial planning is not always so simple. Organizations faced many critical business decisions throughout 2020, and their ability to take the best course of actions often hinged on the results of proactive assessment.

Forecasting 98

Forecasting Finance Testing Sales 98

Sisense

JANUARY 13, 2021

Building trust in the accuracy of the data and the BI system was an important step in encouraging departments to begin using the new system instead of spreadsheets and manual processes. . Reducing the number of human touchpoints and Excel spreadsheets from different departments in the process has improved accuracy. Mobile data access.

Sales 59

Sales Dashboards Management Finance 59

Smart Data Collective

MARCH 5, 2022

Since it’s so simple, you can start and run your own dropshipping business , you just need to get the basics set up. Of course, there is also the great platform of Sellvia that will help to get your side hustle set up and started. It’s the perfect side hustle to start, as it’s so easy to do.

Data mining 131

Data mining Big Data Data-driven Data Science 131

datapine

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

How many spreadsheets have you scrolled upon and lost hours of work in searching for the right information? This example shows how the performance of the sales department can be viewed through a strong pipeline created with a simple dashboard. Interactivity.

Dashboards 220

Dashboards Cost-Benefit Sales Metrics 220

Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

Even simple questions like “ How effective is our analytics strategy? elicit a complicated set of answers, instead of a simple picture the CxO can internalize. I’ve intended to create a simple visual that absorbs the scale, complexity and many moving parts. I have experienced these challenges on numerous occasions myself.

Analytics 93

Analytics Metrics Strategy Measurement 93

datapine

MARCH 20, 2019

This is where companies can run into trouble, using legacy methods (such as one massive spreadsheet that multiple users have access to) rather than reaping the benefits of financial reporting by utilizing financial dashboards instead. For the simple reason that governments will always collect taxes from businesses.

Reporting 248

Reporting Finance Snapshot Dashboards 248

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 31, 2017

Very often the output of our work with Big Data or Small Data, Google Analytics or R, will end up in a few cells of a spreadsheet or a table in Word/Keynote/PowerPoint. It is a simple yet hard to solve problem. Obsessively simple, pressing the right emotional buttons. The above should be a table with two rows and three columns.

Visualization 148

Visualization IT Strategy Key Performance Indicator 148

Depict Data Studio

JANUARY 29, 2024

Here’s what’s in store for 2024 related to: Online Courses, Private Training, Conference Keynotes, and My Personal and Professional Goals. Online Courses The biggest improvement for 2024 is that all 6 courses will be offered LIVE (!!!). The #1 roadblock is that participants don’t have time for recorded courses.

Dashboards 52

Dashboards Consulting Reporting Software 52

Cloudera

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The return on investment of training is always a thorny issue because of the difficulty to conveniently measure it in a spreadsheet but, with this experiment, I hope I have shown that the lack of skills should be a major concern for any organization running Spark workloads. file I created a new file called prepare_data.py cast( 'integer' ).cast(

Measurement 56

Measurement Testing Cost-Benefit ROI 56

Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 30, 2019

If a small business relies on something like a spreadsheet to manage IP addresses and connected devices instead of a managed IT services provider , there is the risk of duplication and outage. They’re fairly simple to install. Of course, a network will have computers and devices too. Selecting a Router. Computers and Devices.

Internet of Things 41

Internet of Things IoT Consulting Management 41

FineReport

APRIL 26, 2023

To build insightful solutions and drive value for your enterprise, consider exploring some of the best Big Data Courses to acquire knowledge and expertise in big data tools and technologies. Because FineReport can be seamlessly integrated with any data source , including multiple databases, spreadsheets, and other sources.

Big Data 52

Big Data Data Analytics Analytics Cost-Benefit 52

O'Reilly on Data

AUGUST 4, 2022

The hard work has been done and reaching AGI is now a simple matter of scaling. You can run a small business using office tools, such as spreadsheets, and a social media page. Reaching Amazon-scale is not a matter of bigger spreadsheets and more pages. And what if you can’t see the summit? How much of AGI is performance?

Machine Learning 260

Machine Learning Modeling Statistics Software 260

Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Do something simple. Present a yummy spreadsheet that quantifies the cost of inaction , how much money you’ll lose by not delivering a 25% improvement every week. Mine is simple: A gentle incentive that creates a shift in behavior. Completely non-PII based social proof, a simple cumulative trend of the number of customers.

Strategy 124

Strategy Cost-Benefit Testing Sales 124

Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

Sometimes, we escape the clutches of this sub optimal existence and do pick good metrics or engage in simple A/B testing. Let's listen in as Alistair discusses the lean analytics model… The Lean Analytics Cycle is a simple, four-step process that shows you how to improve a part of your business. But it is not routine.

Metrics 156

Metrics KPI Analytics Key Performance Indicator 156

Alation

MARCH 16, 2023

Spreadsheets. In the past I have listened to BI team members in various organisations bemoan the fact that they are being asked why the data in their BI report does not reconcile with a business user’s spreadsheet. A wise person said to me years ago that ‘you will never get rid of spreadsheets’. They were so very right.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Management Interactive IT 52

Occam's Razor

MARCH 30, 2017

Here’s a really simple example, easily accessible. Let me share a simple definition that helps me understand each phrase. Oh, and of course if your company’s data is not limited (and you have solved identity , please, please solve identity) you can leverage ML to do the above campaign across Search, Display and Video. (Be

Marketing Analytics 166

Marketing Analytics Marketing Analytics Deep Learning 166

Depict Data Studio

AUGUST 21, 2023

Master dataset : This is a direct synonym — and this is the term I learned in undergraduate and graduate statistics courses — but we don’t use slavery terms anymore. If you’re in Simple Spreadsheets then you’ve heard me talk about this a lot. Tabulations are tables where the datasets are summarized.

Dashboards 52

Dashboards Visualization Statistics Interactive 52

Depict Data Studio

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

I was going on and on about all my great spreadsheet skills. These days, I spend most of my time training others on data visualization—which means I spend less time inside spreadsheets. Download the spreadsheet here: Download the spreadsheet. Download the spreadsheet here: Download the spreadsheet.

Testing 118

Testing Visualization Strategy IT 118

Depict Data Studio

JULY 20, 2021

He was a guest speaker inside our data analysis course, Simple Spreadsheets. Bill’s first spreadsheet experience. Bill shared that his first time with a spreadsheet of any sort was in 1984 while he worked for a company that sold computer software. I recently had the honor of speaking with Bill Jelen, a.k.a.

Consulting 98

Consulting Software IT 98

Depict Data Studio

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

You can learn more about cleaning, recoding, and transforming datasets inside Simple Spreadsheets , my prerequisite course. You can walk through each of the steps in more detail, and download the spreadsheets to follow, and come to live Office Hours inside the Dashboard Design course.

Interactive 69

Interactive Dashboards Slice and Dice IT 69

datapine

JULY 1, 2020

This reduces the reliance on software developers or IT personnel for simple analysis and reporting. Saves time and costs: Modern ad hoc reporting tools are designed to save countless hours since their interface is designed to be simple, yet powerful. What Is Ad Hoc Analysis?

Reporting 260

Reporting Cost-Benefit Dashboards Visualization 260

Depict Data Studio

MAY 25, 2020

We did the spreadsheet math a dozen times. I finished building my Great Graphs: Design Principles course from the Airbnb during the day, and we relaxed in the hot tub at night. I designed and recorded my entire Report Redesign online course while looking out at the ocean. I wanted to be with my family all the time. esque vibe.

Visualization 111

Visualization Consulting Cost-Benefit Recreation/Entertainment 111

datapine

MARCH 25, 2020

These reports have the power to store all your data and generate beautiful dashboards that can tell your data narrative in a simple, visual way. Live dashboards and/or secure viewer area: If you want to share or send your whole dashboard, a simple URL is all you need. In marketing, this notion is precious. click to enlarge**.

Reporting 209

Reporting Dashboards Manufacturing Visualization 209

datapine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Of course, it is also important to choose the right KPI. This type of analysis is not feasible with traditional paper reports and spreadsheet tools. It is as simple as choosing the right type of dashboard. Of course, there is overlap between the two genres and dashboard naming conventions are evolving with the field.

Dashboards 263

Dashboards Analytics Key Performance Indicator Sales 263