There’s no cookie-cutter way to choose metrics that will work for all startups. In fact, what the history shows us is that everybody who’s tried to come up with a better metrics framework has made progress but has ultimately failed…
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As an analyst, you probably spend a lot of your time creating dashboards and other reports to help your teams and Top Brass track metrics. And you probably spend at least some of this time grinding your teeth, because you…
Continue reading KPIs, OKRs, OMTM: The History of Modern Metrics & Why It Matters for Analysts
Recently, Panoply held a webinar with Nathan Patrick Taylor, the CIO of the Symphony Post Acute Network. The focus of the webinar was on what Nathan calls the scalability paradox—the dilemma of focusing too early or too much on scalability,…
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You know the drill: Sometime in mid-December, a tsunami of planning will crash into your company as teams frantically scramble to figure out their initiatives and KPIs for next year. And as they scramble, every single one of them will…
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As today’s number one CRM platform, Salesforce provides support to a variety of business processes within companies. With that in mind, you can only imagine the huge amounts of data stored in Salesforce databases. Used properly, that data can significantly…
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MongoDB is fantastic…and challenging. This database is popular among developers due to its flexibility, but getting your data out of Mongo and into a BI tool isn’t a plug-and-play cakewalk. If you’re looking for a tool that can easily convert data…
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Experienced data scientists and developers are spoilt for choice when it comes to data analytics tools. But for those who don’t hail from a data-centric background, it can prove to be quite a challenge.Data operations platforms like Keboola are valuable…
Continue reading Top 5 Keboola Alternatives: Weighing Expertise and Ease of Use
Data provides the foundation for innovation and enhanced efficiency. But anyone who’s worked with it will tell you that it can be quite challenging. Without the necessary expertise and the right tools at your fingertips, it’s sometimes difficult to derive…
Continue reading Top 5 Domo Alternatives: Capabilities and Usability Go Head-to-Head
If you’re building a data warehouse, you need ETL to move data into that storage. To do that, you first extract data from an array of different sources. Then you apply transformations to get everything into a format you can…
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Finding the right ETL tool for your business is essential. ETL pulls data out of a source (extract), makes changes according to requirements (transform), and then pushes the transformed data into a database, data warehouse, or BI platform.From cost to maintenance,…
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SQL and pandas are both invaluable tools for any analyst or data scientist. They tend to be mentioned in the same breath when talking about data manipulation and analysis—and can do a lot of the same things—but they have pretty…
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We now generate more data in an hour than we did in an entire year just two decades ago. The same old tools simply don’t cut it anymore. That’s why Amazon came out recently with new tools like AQUA for…
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