Thoughts, musings, and, hopefully, not too many redundancies on the world of business data. If you missed the irony in the previous sentence, you may struggle with my writing style.
As I wrote in my last post, I’ve been spending a lot of time building out Excel-based dashboard structures and processes of late. I also wrote a few weeks ago about calculating trend indicators. A natural follow-on to both of those posts is a look at the “metric widget” that I use as a basis [...]
Put this down as one of my more tactical posts, brought on by a fit of lingering annoyance with the use (and by “use” I mean “grotesque misuse”) of trend indicators on reports and dashboards. The trouble is that trends are a trickier business than they seem at first blush, and, at the same time, [...]
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