Data Management and ETL/ELT: Discipline and Order Are Your Choice
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Data Management and ETL/ELT: Discipline and Order Are Your Choice

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“There is nothing wrong in doing things right, first time” is Reason’s motto. Make Sense of your Data and ETL/ELT quality management. When it comes to data management and all ELT/ETL and data lineage matters in business, one can see what is physical such as cables but not what is travelling inside the cables and…

How we present information matters as much as if not more than information itself
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How we present information matters as much as if not more than information itself

ByReason Praxis | Make Sense

Something a bit more enjoyable for Sunday: two visualisations reminding us that how we represent information is as important as the information itself. This point is often overlooked. Many visualisations focus on either the Wow! effect (with a sad “So what…”  question following as the reader can’t make any sense of the visualisation), or hold…

DataVirus threat: targets are now your brain and decision-making
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DataVirus threat: targets are now your brain and decision-making

ByReason Praxis | Make Sense

Do you know what it is about behind the data you trust and use? Recently I had the opportunity to contribute to a LinkedIn post on what new can be said about data that wouldn’t have already been said. A rather difficult but very good question. Most approaches to data usually relate to the importance of its…

Corporate Insights and ‘Single Version of the Truth’ Principle
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Corporate Insights and ‘Single Version of the Truth’ Principle

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From assertive goodwill to consistent reality: Why Praxis matters. Clarifications about a highly underestimated strategic question. When it comes to Reporting, Analytics and Insights, there is little more important for organisations than the principle of a Single Version of the Truth (SVoT). This principle often expresses the data warehousing design ideal, at IT level, with…

Covid-19 Big Picture Insights
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Covid-19 Big Picture Insights

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Try our Desktop or Tablet design-intended Dashboard – Now with the 9th of July data snapshot added Using official public data and Tableau technology, reason presents a visualisation focusing on the Covid-19 virus’s big picture understanding. The visualisation has now an additional data set dated 9th of July. Access the visualisation by clicking on the image above…

Introducing New Funnel Visualisations
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Introducing New Funnel Visualisations

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We are pleased to introduce an original funnel design visualisation, based on Tableau technology. We are pleased to introduce an original funnel design visualisation, based on Tableau technology. The funnel’s shape will change accordingly to displayed values and users’ filter selection. Various design options are possible. An online interactive version of the funnels is available here….

How to evaluate a business outcome’s performance?
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How to evaluate a business outcome’s performance?

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Illustration with mathematics teaching policies in the US and Japan. When analysing data or information, whether quantitative or qualitative and even policies, history matters. Indeed, history shows us the evolution and direction taken by events, which we can then appreciate against given quality assessment criteria. To those who believe that “good” and “bad” criteria don’t…

Is leaving the EU leaving the EEA?
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Is leaving the EU leaving the EEA?

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This article is a continuation of the last “How to visualise supranational bodies the UK belongs to?”, as it answers now the question raised at the end of it: “Is leaving the EU leaving the EEA?”. Our analysis is that by leaving the EU, in a no-deal scenario, the UK would get back to existing…

How to visualise supranational bodies the UK belongs to?
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How to visualise supranational bodies the UK belongs to?

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Illustration with the EULER diagram The UK is part of thousands of international treaties or bodies, most known being the Commonwealth, the UN, the EU, the EEA and the Council of Europe. If we limit our purpose to the continent and specific supranational bodies the UK and other continental countries belong to, the EULER diagram…

Lots of information circulates on global warming and man’s role in it
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Lots of information circulates on global warming and man’s role in it

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A few facts to help and think about. At reason, we know that looking at facts is the beginning of the understanding of a topic, and an issue if it is seen as such. The Global Carbon Atlas is a good place to start when looking at facts about CO2 emissions. The below map shows the 2017 world’s…