Occam's Razor

APRIL 13, 2015

I recommend that periodically you gather folks around you for lunch, pull up Adobe Analytics on the big screen in the conference room, let each person expose one hidden report or feature. In that context, Real-Time reports are an impressive feat of engineering by the team at Google. There is a difference between reporting and analysis.

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Analytics Reporting Metrics Slice and Dice 155

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.

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Slice and Dice Scorecard Metrics Visualization 126

IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 6, 2023

India’s Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report (BRSR)—a framework for environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting—comes into effect in 2023. This set of disclosures within the BRSR is aimed at helping organizations demonstrate how their operations impact environmental and social metrics.

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Reporting Slice and Dice Insurance Metrics 55

datapine

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In essence, in this post, we will explain all the details needed for dashboard reporting and creation, compare interactive vs. static reporting, and provide tips and tricks to make your business perform even better. Interactive Dashboards vs. Static Reporting. Let’s get started. Benefit from amazing interactive dashboards!

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Dashboards Interactive Reporting KPI 235

Jet Global

DECEMBER 2, 2019

If you’re stumbling across this post through the sea of results researching “business intelligence vs. reporting,” then maybe you’re already familiar with the unlimited interpretations and definitions of these two practices. How to Compare Reporting & BI Solutions. in “business intelligence vs. reporting” is a bit misleading.

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Business Intelligence Reporting OLAP Data Warehouse 69

DataRobot Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

By tracking service, drift, prediction data, training data, and custom metrics, you can keep your models and predictions relevant in a fast-changing world. Model Observability compounds performance stats and metrics across the entire model lifecycle to provide context to problems that can threaten the integrity of your models.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 25, 2023

Recently, Amazon FinTech migrated all their financial reporting to QuickSight. This involved migrating complex tables and pivot tables, helping them slice and dice large datasets and deliver pixel-perfect views of their data to their stakeholders. For example, a customer 360 report sliced by different regions.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 31, 2017

Too many bars, inside them too many slices, odd color choices, all end up with this question: what the heck's going on here? There is only one simple message above, and just two metrics that matter. That's the difference between someone who reports data to someone who drives change in behavior.

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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.

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Metrics Key Performance Indicator KPI Business Objectives 138

IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Left to their own devices, they had resorted to using legacy reporting tools such as Excel that required manual gathering, slicing and dicing of data. Consequently, this data was siloed, unshareable, hard to use, lacked quality and governance controls, and could not be used in automated processes.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

I can report on pageviews and bounce rates and sessions and all the other lovely metrics we normally obsess about. Now, all those other metrics suddenly have a purpose and context. This the reason I love setting engagement goal types (remember though, don't call the metric Engagement, it's an excuse and not a metric).

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Analytics Metrics Key Performance Indicator Slice and Dice 80

Occam's Razor

JULY 15, 2014

It also handy explanations of the metrics, with key context where necessary. Yes, it does summarize data from many reports into one. These will sound like: Metric x is down because of our inability to take advantage of trend y and hence I recommend we do z. You are just acting as a glorified report writer.

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Dashboards Key Performance Indicator Snapshot Slice and Dice 159

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The difference between a Reporting Squirrel and Analysis Ninja? Do you see how far away a Reporting Squirrel's job is from that of an Analysis Ninja? 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.

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Visualization Key Performance Indicator Slice and Dice Strategy 160

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Short story #4: Multi-dimensional Slicing and Dicing! You can hover over each box to get a sense of the key metrics. It is created using the All Traffic Sources report in Google Analytics, and clicking Source (rather than the default Source/Medium). Short story #1: Treemaps, Sunbursts, Packed Trees, Oh My!

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Visualization Slice and Dice Predictive Modeling Metrics 143

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

12: Almost all reporting is off custom reports. #11: 6: All automated reports are turned off on a random day/week/month each quarter to assess use/value. #5: Reporting Squirrels vs. Analysis Ninjas. No company hires anyone called a Reporting Squirrel. It is specific, it is, this will not surprise you, impactful. #12:

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Jet Global

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Take financial reports as an example. If the metrics in those reports are off in any way, it gives decision makers a skewed perspective of enterprise performance. Depending on the error, executives and department heads (or anyone else who relies on the reports) may have a wildly inaccurate understanding of performance.

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Slice and Dice Reporting Finance Risk 75

Smarten

JUNE 22, 2022

Embedded BI and Augmented Analytics includes traditional BI components like dashboards, KPIs, Reports with interactive drill-down, drill through, slice and dice and self-serve analytics capabilities.

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Jet Global

MARCH 20, 2024

But a hidden roadblock can impede your progress: report generation. Traditional reporting methods often require technical skills to build queries and wrangle data, creating a bottleneck for finance teams who lack in-house expertise. Inefficiency and Bottlenecks: The reliance on IT for custom reports creates a bottleneck.

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Slice and Dice Finance Reporting Cost-Benefit 52

Jet Global

MAY 12, 2023

Analytics is vital now because providing end-users with the ability to analyze, slice, and dice data within the context of their application is essential to staying competitive in today’s fast-paced digital world. Any data covering any metric your users might want to see. What data does it provide?

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Analytics Slice and Dice Sales Cost-Benefit 52

Jet Global

MAY 1, 2023

But many companies fail to achieve this goal because they struggle to provide the reporting and analytics users have come to expect. These tools prep that data for analysis and then provide reporting on it from a central viewpoint. These reports are critical to making decisions. It’s all about context.

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Jet Global

DECEMBER 7, 2021

We should be clear from the outset that BI is fundamentally different from reporting. Virtually every business on the planet has some kind of reporting mechanism in place–even if it’s just a simple set of off-the-shelf printouts that come from basic accounting software. Business reporting is more operational in nature than BI.

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Business Intelligence Slice and Dice Recreation/Entertainment Reporting 52