BA Learnings

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Art Of Communication: More Than Just Reports First and foremost, the ability to communicate effectively is your Excalibur in the world of business analysis. You’re the translator of complex jargon into the common tongue, ensuring clarity is achieved in every meeting, email, and report. Where you can, try to predict change.

Business Analysis 130

Business Analysis Uncertainty Reporting Management 130

Timo Elliott

JANUARY 4, 2021

With advanced analytics, flexible dashboarding and effective data visualization, FP&A storytelling has become both an art and science. First, because uncertainty exploded. I’ve worked with hundreds of dashboard and data visualization projects over the years. Dashboards and analytics have been around for a long, long time.

Dashboards 139

Dashboards Visualization Data-driven Forecasting 139

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2023

Without visualized analytics, it was difficult to bridge the void between expectation and accurate analysis. The objectives were lofty: integrated, scalable, and replicable enterprise management; streamlined business processes; and visualized risk control, among other aims, all fully integrating finance, logistics, production, and sales.

Key Performance Indicator 98

Key Performance Indicator Sales Manufacturing KPI 98

AWS Big Data

JUNE 27, 2023

We wanted to include interactive, real-time visualizations to support recruiters from one of our government clients. Our previous solution offered visualization of key metrics, but point-in-time snapshots produced only in PDF format. With AWS, we aren’t forced to pay for a bundle with services that we don’t use.

Metrics 98

Metrics Dashboards Interactive Visualization 98

Jet Global

MARCH 20, 2023

Recognizing a need for better operational analytics, insightsoftware leveraged award-winning technology from Logi Analytics to provide Oracle ERP Cloud users the ability to customize, create, and share interactive dashboards and reports across all departments of a business.

Operational Reporting 52

Operational Reporting Reporting Uncertainty Analytics 52

Jet Global

JULY 23, 2020

SAP reporting works like a map through the forest. When companies have an overwhelming amount of data with which to contend, moving quickly in all directions, reporting offers a kind of guidance. That makes it an invaluable asset for preparing insightful reports driven by the best data available.

Reporting 52

Reporting IT Uncertainty Digital Transformation 52

Juice Analytics

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As part of the event, we created this interactive report that lets you explore how socio-economic factors correlate with health conditions. Do we all share the same doubts and uncertainties about life decisions? This is data analysis as a way to highlight health disparities. Am I making the most of my life? We are all a Steve.

Uncertainty 103

Uncertainty Interactive Visualization Reporting 103

datapine

MAY 31, 2022

Be it in the form of online BI tools , or an online data visualization system, a company must address where and how to store its data. To mitigate the various risks and uncertainties in transitioning to the cloud, IT must adapt its traditional IT control processes to include the cloud. It’s completely free!

Risk 237

Risk Cost-Benefit Business Intelligence Data-driven 237

Perceptual Edge

APRIL 21, 2019

This certainly applies to data visualization, which unfortunately lends itself to a great deal of noise if we’re not careful and skilled. Every choice that we make when creating a data visualization seeks to optimize the signal-to-noise ratio. No accurate item of data, in and of itself, always qualifies either as a signal or noise.

Visualization 76

Visualization Statistics Uncertainty Modeling 76

Sisense

OCTOBER 6, 2020

It’s analyzed through numerical comparisons and statistical inferences and is reported through statistical analyses. As quantitative data is always numeric, it’s relatively straightforward to put it in order, manage it, analyze it, visualize it, and do calculations with it. Why is quantitative data important?

Statistics 98

Statistics Unstructured Data Data-driven Visualization 98

Jet Global

AUGUST 6, 2020

I started out as an accountant, but I decided that I wanted to go beyond financial reports and auditing accounts to use my skills in business. Robotic process automation is one example in which money may be wasted when the company could have gotten the same results using Visual Basic and Excel macros, to be quite honest.

Strategy 96

Strategy Finance Forecasting Consulting 96

IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In a world marked by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) building a holistic planning environment is inevitable for successful steering.” They pinpointed ten distinct use cases, like sales planning , financial planning and reporting.

Analytics 88

Analytics Manufacturing Uncertainty Machine Learning 88

IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In a research brief defining “5 trends for 2023,” the IBM Institute for Business Value reports, “In 2023, rapid response is the new baseline. Uncertainty is expected and complexity is compounding. As threats materialize on multiple fronts, organizations must reduce the time from insight to action.”

Data-driven 77

Data-driven Cost-Benefit Uncertainty Dashboards 77

Jet Global

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

With the volatility of the market and increasing uncertainties that arise within your business, you need actionable insights to contend with competitors buoyed by digital transformation efforts. It sure isn’t happening in the visualization layer! Unlock insights from ERP Data to Deliver Actionable Insights Let’s face it.

Business Intelligence 52

Business Intelligence IT Operational Reporting Reporting 52

Data Science and Beyond

JANUARY 7, 2019

Therefore, bootstrapping has been promoted as an easy way of modelling uncertainty to hackers who don’t have much statistical knowledge. Don’t compare confidence intervals visually. Confidence intervals are a common way of quantifying the uncertainty in an estimate of a population parameter.

Statistics 77

Statistics Uncertainty Testing Modeling 77

Jet Global

MAY 18, 2020

But without establishing a centralised rapid reporting rhythm, fed by real-time data and supported by automated reporting processes, finance runs the risk of things dropping off into silos. And that’s the last thing you want during in periods of uncertainty where things are changing on a daily basis.

Finance 64

Finance Reporting Uncertainty Testing 64

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 27, 2023

Nearly half (49%) of IT leaders participating in this year’s research report directly to the CEO, and CIOs themselves have retained oversight of some of the newer C-level positions. Chief security officers and chief analytics officers are also more likely to report into IT leadership.

Strategy 109

Strategy Digital Transformation Insurance Technology 109

Jet Global

MARCH 13, 2020

Traditionally, this meant tracking a small set of numbers at occasional intervals, such as in the month-end close or the quarterly financial report. That includes things like reading financial statements, balance sheets, and cash flow reports. Your Reporting Lags Because You Lack Real-Time Capabilities. Your Reports Are Static.

Finance 64

Finance Snapshot Reporting Advertising 64

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

MARCH 13, 2017

Typically, causal inference in data science is framed in probabilistic terms, where there is statistical uncertainty in the outcomes as well as model uncertainty about the true causal mechanism connecting inputs and outputs. Our code has details (there are probably other reasonable visualization approaches that work just as well).

IT 70

IT Visualization Modeling Uncertainty 70

Juice Analytics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

As part of the event, we created this interactive report that lets you explore how socio-economic factors correlate with health conditions. Do we all share the same doubts and uncertainties about life decisions? This is data analysis as a way to highlight health disparities. Am I making the most of my life? We are all a Steve.

Uncertainty 52

Uncertainty Interactive Visualization Reporting 52

AWS Big Data

AUGUST 7, 2023

Forecasting acts as a planning tool to help enterprises prepare for the uncertainty that can occur in the future. to create forecast tables and visualize the data. Time series data is plottable on a line graph and such time series graphs are valuable tools for visualizing the data.

Forecasting 91

Forecasting Data Warehouse Machine Learning Modeling 91

Sisense

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

And we could easily visualize how a fix could impact our warranty claim forecast. Here at Skullcandy, we’re happy to report that “dropping in” to the predictive and sentiment analytics game was worth the initial uncertainty. Full circle data experience: achieved. Lessons Learned.

Predictive Analytics 75

Predictive Analytics Predictive Modeling Data-driven Forecasting 75

Smarten

JULY 18, 2022

The path to Citizen Data Scientist does not have to be fraught with uncertainty.’. These individuals may already be ‘power users’ of business applications and may have developed and reported or presented data to others with an eye toward clarifying their decision-making. Training is a key component of this success.

Uncertainty 52

Uncertainty Predictive Analytics Forecasting Analytics 52

IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Government executives face several uncertainties as they embark on their journeys of modernization. Throughout the visual representation of the journey, pain points are plotted accordingly.

Data-driven 85

Data-driven IT Measurement Cost-Benefit 85

Depict Data Studio

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Here’s a common data visualization challenge: Slides with some, but not all, of the chronological data included. . Using Dotted Lines to Show Uncertainty. Dotted lines are great for visualizing estimates or uncertainty. The Challenge. What type of graph should it be? How should it be formatted? Here’s the edited version.

Uncertainty 40

Uncertainty Visualization Reporting IT 40

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

Nearly all respondents reported promising early results from gen AI experiments and planned to increase their spending in 2024 to support production workloads. Here are some areas where organizations are seeing a ROI: Text (83%) : Gen AI assists with automating tasks like report writing, document summarization and marketing copy generation.

Cost-Benefit 89

Cost-Benefit Manufacturing Modeling Interactive 89

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 23, 2024

Crucially, it takes into account the uncertainty inherent in our experiments. Figure 4: Visualization of a central composite design. In this section we’ll discuss how we approach these two kinds of uncertainty with QCQP. It is a big picture approach, worthy of your consideration. production, default) values.

Experimentation 52

Experimentation Optimization Uncertainty Metrics 52

Jet Global

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Among several services my organization provides; we help individuals, enterprises, and public agencies plan, prepare, and manage through the uncertainty, demands, and challenges of the future. They range from automating repeatable processes to improved analytics and reporting, to better integration with other organizational functions.

Digital Transformation 59

Digital Transformation Finance Experimentation Data-driven 59

Perceptual Edge

MARCH 21, 2018

Even in this case, however, I would not ordinarily report to others what I’d discovered about rates of change using a graph with a logarithmic scale, for all but a few people would misunderstand it. This works because units along a logarithmic scale increase by rate (e.g., There are many different ways to estimate and compare income.

Uncertainty 66

Uncertainty Visualization IT Reporting 66

Sisense

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Without robust in-house expertise and support to build the necessary dashboards and run queries, many institutions are instead forced to rely on canned reports that can’t be customized. This insight can inform future partnerships, and reduce uncertainty about which services will be most relevant and useful.

Data-driven 59

Data-driven IT Business Intelligence Cost-Benefit 59

Darkhorse

AUGUST 26, 2016

You have devised a number of time-tested shortcuts to deal with uncertainty. But he has a hard time explaining why it says so.When you question him about the data quality, he waves it away and mumbles something about sample size.Whenever he submits a report, it reminds you of that 4th year econ course you almost failed.

Uncertainty 40

Uncertainty Data Quality Modeling Visualization 40

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JULY 11, 2017

The data consist of the weekly initial claims for unemployment insurance in the US, as reported by the US Federal Reserve. There are also plotting functions that you can use to visualize the regression coefficients. Figure 1 shows the motivating data set from Scott and Varian (2014), which is also included with the bsts package.

Forecasting 66

Forecasting Statistics Modeling Software 66

Jet Global

MARCH 2, 2021

Yardi offers a variety of different tools for reporting; unfortunately, each has its own unique shortcomings. Reporting in Yardi: the Default Options. There are no options for modifying the format of these reports, and in many cases, they may only provide a subset of results.

Reporting 98

Reporting Slice and Dice Finance Operational Reporting 98

Juice Analytics

APRIL 17, 2020

As I was listening to a Data Visualization Society round table discussion about the responsible use of COVID-19 data (properly distanced and webinar-ed, of course), a few thoughts seemed most relevant. And in this particular case, the uncertainty bands are huge, because there’s just so much about this virus that we just don’t understand.

Forecasting 101

Forecasting Snapshot Dashboards Uncertainty 101

Depict Data Studio

MAY 12, 2020

In April, I sat down with Amanda Makulec, one of my longtime data and evaluation friends, to learn about visualizing COVID-19 responsibly. Amanda is the Data Visualization Capability Lead at Excella; a co-organizer for Dataviz DC; and the Operations Director for the Data Visualization Society (DVS). Data Visualization Society.

Visualization 52

Visualization Uncertainty Data Collection Data Quality 52

O'Reilly on Data

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Our call for speakers for Strata NY 2019 solicited contributions on the themes of data science and ML; data engineering and architecture; streaming and the Internet of Things (IoT); business analytics and data visualization; and automation, security, and data privacy. ML and AI topics claim top spots.

IoT 23

IoT Big Data Data Warehouse Uncertainty 23

Domino Data Lab

JULY 22, 2019

He also really informed a lot of the early thinking about data visualization. It involved a lot of work with applied math, some depth in statistics and visualization, and also a lot of communication skills. If you look into the middle bucket, they have three things that they report in common. What do they report in common?

Data Science 109

Data Science Machine Learning Data Governance Modeling 109