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Know Your Data Ingredients

Juice Analytics

1) Separate your metrics from your dimensions. Metrics are the data values that measure performance. The metrics are often the stars of the show ( Metrics are the Characters of Data Stories ) — like the proteins of your dishes. These are the ways you slice and dice your metrics.

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5 tips for excelling at self-service analytics

CIO Business Intelligence

Having that roadmap from the start helps to trim down and focus on the actual metrics to create. Have a data governance plan as well to validate and keep the metrics clean. As soon as one metric is not accurate it is hard to get the buy-in again, so routinely confirming accuracy on all analytics is extremely important.”

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Current Financial Performance at Your Fingertips: Financial Ratios

Jet Global

They take raw data and translate it into informative metrics that highlight your organizational health and underscore what’s going right and wrong in the process. Financial ratios can’t reveal the future, but they do offer important perspectives into the past and present that decision makers can’t afford to ignore.

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Do I Need Both BI Tools and Augmented Analytics?

Smarten

A BI tool is crucial for business users to monitor and present data. KPIs allow the business to establish and monitor KPIs for objective metrics. Business Intelligence. Dashboards. Business users should have the ability to design personalized dashboards in minutes, without knowledge of any programming or SQL queries.

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The Complete Digital Analytics Ecosystem: How To Win Big

Occam's Razor

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.

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

Occam's Razor

I'm assuming for the rest of this post that either you are the person responsible for presenting the output of the analytical efforts OR you are working with a person who will present and that they are curious and will commit the time and intellectual horsepower required. Let's go, and have some sexy data presentation fun!

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13 power tips for Microsoft Power BI

CIO Business Intelligence

With Power BI, you can pull data from almost any data source and create dashboards that track the metrics you care about the most. Integrate with Office If your users prefer to slice and dice with Pivot tables, Power BI data can also be used in Excel. You can also create manual metrics to update yourself.