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Who should answer your analytics certification questions, and in what order?
Analytics certifications settled by sixteen questions sorted by who can answer them: the issuing body, your employer, and somebody who already holds it.
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Analytics careers framework: which axis to grow
An analytics careers framework on four axes: technical depth, domain, communication and ownership, plus a rule for choosing which to develop.
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Analytics tools metrics: measuring a purchase
A practical approach to analytics tools metrics: set baselines before purchase, track operational measures afterward, and assess what changed.
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An invented forecasting rebuild: scoring, cutting a definitional break, matching granularity
An invented forecasting rebuild: scoring the existing forecast, cutting a definitional break, matching daily granularity, and what failed along the way.
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Forecasting mistakes seen from the repair side
Forecasting failures that survive a good model: single numbers, targets in disguise, missing baselines, unlogged overrides and forecasts nobody scores.
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Lessons hiding in the dashboards examples
Twelve dashboards panel shapes chosen by the question asked: what each layout answers, and the specific way each one fails when it is misapplied.
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A business intelligence framework with governed, curated, and sandbox tiers
A three tier publication model for analytics artifacts: what governed, curated, and sandbox each promise, how numbers move up or down, and who decides.
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Data analysis questions: what people ask and what is true
Data analysis questions to ask in the room: about the number, the picture, the comparison, what is missing, and whether a movement is real at all.
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Can a reporting pack survive contact with its own audience?
Reporting built to survive: agreeing the close, reconciling to an anchor, automating the pull but writing the narrative, and retiring a pack on purpose.