Coronavirus: Know the terms, stay the course
Jim Harris examines coronavirus terms that are crucial to data-driven decisions in the pandemic.
Tag: dashboards
Digging into coronavirus testing terms: What you need to know
In the third post of his series, Jim Harris looks at types, terms and timing of coronavirus tests.
Coronavirus testing: The terms you need to know
Could you pass a test on coronavirus testing terms? Jim Harris can help.
8 terms you need to understand when assessing COVID-19 data
Dashboards and metrics support data-driven decisions – if you understand the terms.
Considerations and tips for big data integration
.@philsimon asks some fundamental questions about taking the next step with #bigdata.
How to partner with IT to build a dashboard for community college administrators
It's a common problem in any industry: getting a large number of similar requests for information. But with limited resources and an already overburdened staff, how do you handle it? At El Paso Community College, analysts from the Institutional Research (IR) team enlisted the help of IT to create a data
Poder Analítico, el grial de su negocio
Si entre las preguntas que se plantea en su gestión están ¿cómo mejorar la presentación de mis reportes?, ¿cómo puedo comunicar a la organización información clave de una forma clara, sencilla y oportuna? Entonces le interesará saber cómo la Visualización Analítica ayuda a las organizaciones en el mejor entendimiento y
External data: Radar for your business
How much of your business performance (profit) is driven by external factors versus internal? A figure of 85% compared to 15% was mentioned at last month’s Manufacturing Analytics Summit, and although I could not find the study mentioned to confirm, it feels about right to me. Certainly more than half,
Metrics – Too many different ways of keeping score
You’ve likely played an organized sport at some time in your life - How many different ways were there to keep score? How many different ways were there to determine the winner? Just one – right? It was goals, or runs, or points, or something, but never goals and/or assists,
Conversational analytics
When you begin your career your most important skills are your hard, technical skills; the finance and accounting, the statistics and economics, the physics and chemistry, the engineering and calculus. But as I tell my business school mentees, as your career progresses, the emphasis changes such that much sooner than
Data + Context = Business Intelligence
“Our performance last month was 46.” Oh, you don’t have to thank me, I was just doing my job. Not very well, I might add. 46? 46 what? Or 46 who’s? Without context, 46 is just a number, just data. In context, perhaps that’s 46 out of 48 (not too
What’s a Budget for?
With the exception of the occasional James Bond movie that proves the rule, we don’t as a matter of course combine our modes of transportation into one all-purpose vehicle, and we even tend to park our cars, boats and planes in separate facilities. But when it comes to financial management,