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What is Data Lineage? Top 5 Benefits of Data Lineage

erwin

The CEO also makes decisions based on performance and growth statistics. An understanding of the data’s origins and history helps answer questions about the origin of data in a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) reports, including: How the report tables and columns are defined in the metadata? Who are the data owners?

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The Role Of Data Warehousing In Your Business Intelligence Architecture

datapine

Data cleansing, metadata management, data distribution, storage management, recovery, and backup planning are processes conducted in a data warehouse while BI makes use of tools that focus on statistics, visualization, and data mining. Let’s see this through one of our dashboard examples : the management KPI dashboard.

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Gartner D&A Summit Bake-Offs Explored Flooding Impact And Reasons for Optimism!

Rita Sallam

SAS created, on top of the traditional statistical and machine learning models to predict events, a set of four unique models specifically focused on helping people impacted by flooding: An optimization network model (cost network flow algorithm) to optimally help displaced people reach public shelters and safer areas.

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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

That metric is tied to a KPI. It's the target for your KPI. For each of them, write down the KPI you're measuring, and what that KPI should be for you to consider your efforts a success. We’re making an educated guess about what could improve the KPI based on what we learned in step 1.

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Best practices for enabling business users to answer questions about data using natural language in Amazon QuickSight

AWS Big Data

Follow along In the following examples, we often refer to two out-of-the-box sample topics, Product Sales and Student Enrollment Statistics , so you can follow along as you go. For example, in the student enrollment statistics example, Q already set Home of Origin as Location so if someone asks “where,” Q knows to use this field (Figure 6).

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