Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2014

My last post, perhaps provocatively, called for a reduction of data in executive dashboards (digital, online, offline). More English (IABI, specifically) would lead to a smarter understanding of performance, and of course glory for data practitioners. See: Best Metrics For Digital Marketing: Rock Your Own And Rent Strategies ).

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datapine

JULY 11, 2019

The rise of innovative, interactive, data-driven dashboard tools has made creating effective dashboards – like the one featured above – swift, simple, and accessible to today’s forward-thinking businesses. Dashboard design should be the cherry on top of your business intelligence (BI) project. Now, it’s time for the fun part.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

FBe's recommendation was (paraphrasing a 35 min talk): Don't invent new metrics, use online versions of Reach and GRPs to measure success. From the data presented, there is no way to tell if the Facebook campaign worked or not. I don't think it is simply a metrics/measurement problem. Metrics are a problem.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The very best analysts are know what matter’s the most are not the insights from big data but clear actions and compelling business impact from usually a smaller subset of key data. People ask me this seemingly simple question all the time: What Key Performance Indicators should we use for our business ?

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datapine

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

4) How to Select Your KPIs 5) Avoid These KPI Mistakes 6) How To Choose A KPI Management Solution 7) KPI Management Examples Fact: 100% of statistics strategically placed at the top of blog posts are a direct result of people studying the dynamics of Key Performance Indicators, or KPIs. What Is KPI Management?

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JULY 17, 2019

Experts predict that by 2025, around 175 Zettabytes of data will be generated annually, according to research from Seagate. But with so much data available from an ever-growing range of sources, how do you make sense of this information – and how do you extract value from it? Looking for a bite-sized introduction to reporting?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 27, 2022

Today, many CIOs feel the same way about metrics. Metrics are only as good as their source. Too often, technology companies pay consulting or analyst firms to create metrics based on the best characteristics of their offerings,” says Judith Hurwitz, CEO of Hurwitz Strategies, an emerging technology consulting firm.

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datapine

MAY 20, 2020

A CRM dashboard is a centralized hub of information that presents customer relationship management data in a way that is dynamic, interactive, and offers access to a wealth of insights that can improve your consumer-facing strategies and communications. Let’s look at this in more detail. What Is A CRM Report? Follow-Up Contact Rate.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

However, the metrics used to evaluate CIOs are hindering progress. As digital transformation becomes a critical driver of business success, many organizations still measure CIO performance based on traditional IT values rather than transformative outcomes. The CIO is no longer the chief of “keeping the lights on.”

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datapine

APRIL 22, 2020

“Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the web like deer on a freeway.” – Geoffrey Moore. And, as a business, if you use your data wisely, you stand to reap great rewards. Data brings a wealth of invaluable insights that could significantly boost the growth and evolution of your business.

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datapine

MAY 27, 2020

In recent years, analytical reporting has evolved into one of the world’s most important business intelligence components, compelling companies to adapt their strategies based on powerful data-driven insights. No more sifting through droves of spreadsheets, no more patchwork data analysis, and reporting methods.

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datapine

APRIL 12, 2019

Also, implementing effective management reports will create a data-driven approach to making business decisions and obtaining sustainable business success. Working with project dashboard software that can create extensive analytical reports will bestow your strategic activities with all of these key attributes. Centralized data.

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Smart Data Collective

JUNE 25, 2021

Big data has been incredibly important in the marketing profession. Marketers need to rely heavily on big data technology to reach customers more effectively. Big data technology isn’t just important for making better insights. Visual marketing dashboards are prime examples of using big data effectively in marketing.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 28, 2011

Web Analysts are blessed with an immense amount of data, and an amazing amount of valuable, even sexy, metrics to understand business performance. Yet our heroic efforts to report the aforementioned sexy metrics lead to little business action. These metrics are super lame because. Sounds better right?).

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Monitoring data pipelines in real time is critical for catching issues early and minimizing disruptions. AWS Glue has made this more straightforward with the launch of AWS Glue job observability metrics , which provide valuable insights into your data integration pipelines built on AWS Glue. Choose Add new data source.

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datapine

JANUARY 21, 2020

Big data plays a crucial role in online data analysis , business information, and intelligent reporting. Companies must adjust to the ambiguity of data, and act accordingly. Business intelligence reporting, or BI reporting, is the process of gathering data by utilizing different software and tools to extract relevant insights.

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datapine

AUGUST 12, 2020

In your daily business, many different aspects and ‘activities’ are constantly changing – sales trends and volume, marketing performance metrics, warehouse operational shifts, or inventory management changes. Interdepartmental communication can then effectively utilize findings and the content can be shared with key stakeholders.

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datapine

JUNE 5, 2019

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”– Data is all around us. Data has changed our lives in many ways, helping to improve the processes, initiatives, and innovations of organizations across sectors through the power of insight. Let’s kick things off by asking the question: what is a data dashboard?

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datapine

MARCH 25, 2019

In our data-rich age, understanding how to analyze and extract true meaning from the digital insights available to our business is one of the primary drivers of success. Despite the colossal volume of data we create every day, a mere 0.5% is actually analyzed and used for data discovery , improvement, and intelligence.

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datapine

JANUARY 28, 2020

The ability to monitor, visualize, and analyze relevant data gives today’s businesses, across a host of sectors, the power to understand their prospects, make informed decisions, increase efficiencies, and work towards a set of rewarding long term goals. The Value Of Different Dashboard Ideas & Designs. 1) Marketing KPI Dashboard.

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datapine

APRIL 23, 2019

In today’s business world, competition is fierce across all industries and sectors, which means that to survive and thrive, working with measurable online data analysis and performance metrics is essential. Exclusive Bonus Content: Helpdesk performance metrics: A summary! What Is A Helpdesk KPI?

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datapine

MARCH 8, 2021

Rapid technological evolution means it’s now possible to use accessible and intuitive data-driven tools to our advantage. We’ve delved into the impact of big data in healthcare. Without healthcare data reporting, it’s unlikely healthcare institutions will ever reduce these figures to an acceptable level on a sustainable basis.

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datapine

JUNE 27, 2019

And to gain greater vision, you need to embrace the power of digital data. By leveraging smart online data analysis in the right way, you will gain access to insights that will help you develop strategies that foster growth and innovation while keeping your staff motivated, engaged, and happy. Wider accessibility to important data.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

First… it is important to realize that big data's big imperative is driving big action. 7: 25% of all analytical effort is dedicated to data visualization/enhancing data's communicative power. #6: Reporting Squirrels spend 75% or more of their time in data production activities.

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DataKitchen

MARCH 16, 2023

How to measure your data analytics team? So it’s Monday, and you lead a data analytics team of perhaps 30 people. And she is numbers driven – great! But wait, she asks you for your team metrics. Like most leaders of data analytic teams, you have been doing very little to quantify your team’s success.

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datapine

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Management reporting is a source of business intelligence that helps business leaders make more accurate, data-driven decisions. They collect data from various departments of the company tracking key performance indicators ( KPIs ) and present them in an understandable way. They’re also slow.

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JUNE 18, 2019

These are powerful tools that you can apply to increase internal business performance. A data-driven finance report is also an effective means of remaining updated with any significant progress or changes in the status of your finances, and help you measure your financial results, cash flow, and financial position.

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datapine

AUGUST 7, 2019

If you’re part of a growing SaaS company and are looking to accelerate your success, leveraging the power of data is the way to gain a real competitive edge. Data analysis like never before. With so much data available in the digital age , knowing what’s valuable and what’s redundant is essential to success.

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Smart Data Collective

JUNE 21, 2023

We have talked about a number of the ways that business leaders are investing in big data technology and analytics. There are many reasons that the demand for big data in the human resources sector is growing so quickly HR professionals are using big data to make strategic decisions. Big data analytics can help firms save money.

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Andrew White

APRIL 5, 2019

An oft heard inquiry from clients is, “What is the right metric to use?” The context might be for: Defining data quality. Reporting the business impact of a data governance initiative. Monitoring the progress of a digital or data-driven transformation. Yet here we are, being asked by clients for the right metric.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 15, 2014

digital performance. It also handy explanations of the metrics, with key context where necessary. is yearning for some segmentation, or at least for some comparisons of current performance to past performance for context. Yes, it does summarize data from many reports into one. They are data pukes.

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datapine

AUGUST 28, 2019

By gaining centralized access to business data and presenting it in a visual way that follows a logical path and provides invaluable insights on a particular area or subject, you stand to set yourself apart from your competitors and become a leader in your field. Exclusive Bonus Content: Your definitive guide to data storytelling!

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datapine

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Today’s digital data has given the power to an average Internet user a massive amount of information that helps him or her to choose between brands, products or offers, making the market a highly competitive arena for the best ones to survive. First things first – organizing and prioritizing your marketing data.

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datapine

OCTOBER 29, 2021

4) Top Elements Of A Weekly Performance Report. Businesses have been analyzing their performance for decades through traditional written reports, but with the amount of data being produced every day, the need for more frequent reporting is growing. 3) Weekly Report Templates & Examples. Let’s look at it more in detail.

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datapine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As in many other industries, the information technology sector faces the age-old issue of producing IT reports that boost success by helping to maximize value from a tidal wave of digital data. The purpose is not to track every statistic possible, as you risk being drowned in data and losing focus. Let’s get started.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2024

Regardless of where organizations are in their digital transformation, CIOs must provide their board of directors, executive committees, and employees definitions of successful outcomes and measurable key performance indicators (KPIs). As a result, outcome-based metrics should be your guide.

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datapine

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Studies suggest that businesses that adopt a data-driven marketing strategy are likely to gain an edge over the competition and in turn, increase profitability. In fact, according to eMarketer, 40% of executives surveyed in a study focused on data-driven marketing, expect to “significantly increase” revenue. Still unsure?

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