Occam's Razor

JANUARY 12, 2015

Traffic sources, like keywords, referring sites, campaigns, countries, are examples of dimensions. In order for you to really truly understand what is happening to your business, your customers and the yummy business outcomes, you need to be able to segment the data. You need to slice! You need to dice! You need to drill!

Analytics 151

Analytics Slice and Dice KPI Metrics 151

datapine

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The point of such dashboards is not to simplify the working environment and analysis processes since there are massive volumes of data collected on a daily level, and companies need solutions that will bring them to the right answer at the right time. In general, drilldowns can be added to any type of chart.

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Dashboards Interactive Reporting KPI 235

Occam's Razor

APRIL 19, 2010

Point of confusion: People, like me, often also use the term Desirable Outcomes to refer to business objectives. Full disclosure: Depending on the specificity of your business objectives my asking you for your "desirable outcomes" could refer to "what are your goals". They are one and the same thing. See below.]. Truly heart warming.

Metrics 140

Metrics Key Performance Indicator KPI Analytics 140

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 31, 2017

Ten years, and the 944,357 words, are proof that I love purposeful data, collecting it, pouring smart strategies into analyzing it, and using the insights identified to transform organizations. Too many bars, inside them too many slices, odd color choices, all end up with this question: what the heck's going on here?

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Visualization IT Strategy Key Performance Indicator 149

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JULY 18, 2023

While we can count the number of rods that measure a particular length, we struggle to provide a concrete reference value for something like the liberalness of a particular government. Measurement challenges Assessing reliability is essentially a process of data collection and analysis. We highly recommend you read that as well.

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Measurement Metrics Uncertainty Slice and Dice 52

Jet Global

MAY 1, 2023

that gathers data from many sources. Let’s just give our customers access to the data. You’ve settled for becoming a data collection tool rather than adding value to your product. They can be presented in the context of a single chart or in a collection of visualizations in a dashboard. It’s all about context.

Analytics 52

Analytics Cost-Benefit Visualization Dashboards 52