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Know Your Data Ingredients

Juice Analytics

These are the ways you slice and dice your metrics. For each one, you’ll want to understand the following: Define - A common definition that everyone in the organization can agree on Calculate - What mathematical operations do you apply to the data before you show the values? 2) Now it is time to get to know your metrics.

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Data Storytelling: What's Easy and What's Hard

Juice Analytics

Here are 25 more lessons we've learned (the hard way) about what's easy and what's hard when it comes to telling data stories: Easy: Picking a good visualization to answer a data question Hard: Discovering the core message of your data story that will move your audience to action Easy: Knowing who is your target audience Hard: Knowing what motivates (..)

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Why Choose a Hybrid Data Cloud in Financial Services?

Cloudera

Let’s start with our definition of a hybrid data cloud. More and more business people want the access to that data to slice and dice as they have business ideas and assumptions that they want to explore. Simple, consistent and intuitive experience for data users and developers. I say “people” intentionally, not “users”.

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Reporting Analytics vs. Financial Reporting: Is There a Difference?

Jet Global

If you are confused about reporting analytics vs. financial reporting, it makes sense to start with a baseline definition of financial reporting. It’s also helpful to be able to “slice and dice” income statements by segregating information for different company divisions, product lines, or subsidiaries. Financial Reporting.

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The Art of Data Storytelling

Juice Analytics

Sure they don’t tell the whole story, but they definitely give more insight into what’s actually happening with your data and can provide some colorful detail in your data story. In the traditional story spine, they refer to it as “because of that…”; for analytics, we call it “slicing-and-dicing.”

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The Complete Digital Analytics Ecosystem: How To Win Big

Occam's Razor

Definition? You need to slice! You need to dice! Repeat after me: Slice, dice, drill!! Please remember this important caveat as you pick KPIs. Helpful post: You Are What You Measure, So Choose Your KPIs (Incentives) Wisely! ]. Now you have your foundation, metrics and KPIs. The next layer is called dimensions.

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Web Analytics 101: Definitions: Goals, Metrics, KPIs, Dimensions, Targets

Occam's Razor

Definitions and standard perspectives on these terms will be covered in this post: Business Objectives. A standard definition will be provided, but more than that my hope is to solidify your understanding with concrete examples and pictures. There are many long and complicated definitions of dimensions. Dimensions.

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