Occam's Razor

JANUARY 12, 2015

Even if you are in the super-jaded category, this will help you present something to your boss's boss that will get them to finally understand what you do! At the core of everything you will do in digital analytics is the concept of metrics. How do you define a metric: It is simply a number. That is as simple as it gets.

Analytics 150

Analytics Slice and Dice KPI Metrics 150

Jet Global

MAY 1, 2023

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. As a result, end users can better view shared metrics (backed by accurate data), which ultimately drives performance. Discuss, don’t present.

Analytics 52

Analytics Cost-Benefit Visualization Dashboards 52

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 19, 2023

With Power BI, you can pull data from almost any data source and create dashboards that track the metrics you care about the most. Power BI’s rich reports or dashboards can be embedded into reporting portals you already use. But with Power BI, you can simply drag a slider bar to show the impact of changes.

Slice and Dice 124

Slice and Dice Scorecard Metrics Visualization 124

Occam's Razor

JULY 15, 2014

I'm excited about the power of a well created dashboard. Dashboards are every where, we will look at a lot of them in this post and they are all digital. Here's a great dashboard, for the Museum of Art… take a minute to ponder it… Isn't it pretty awesome? And data pukes are not dashboards.

Dashboards 159

Dashboards Key Performance Indicator Snapshot Slice and Dice 159

Occam's Razor

APRIL 19, 2010

"What is the difference between a metric and a key performance indicator (KPI)?" " "Are goals metrics?" There seems to be genuine confusion about the simplest, most foundational, parts of web metrics / analytics. Metric: A metric is a number. But not normal metrics. Dimensions.

Metrics 138

Metrics Key Performance Indicator KPI Business Objectives 138

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Even if you have really amazing why and so what , I've observed many Analysts die at the last mile: Presenting their whys and the so whats, in the form of stories. 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.

Visualization 160

Visualization Key Performance Indicator Slice and Dice Strategy 160

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

There is something magical about taking an incredible amount of complexity and presenting it as simply as we possibly can with the goal of letting the cogently presented insight drive action. Short story #4: Multi-dimensional Slicing and Dicing! You can hover over each box to get a sense of the key metrics.

Visualization 143

Visualization Slice and Dice Predictive Modeling Metrics 143

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

In service of report creation the job includes: Pulling data, writing queries, fulfilling ad-hoc requests, scheduling data outputs (reports, dashboards), liaising with script implementers / IT teams to collect more data, etc. So insist that no piece of data (report, dashboard, sexy table) will ever be presented without relevant segmentation.

Data-driven 140

Data-driven Consulting Reporting Marketing 140