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A lot of requests to BI teams are simply “what’s the <metric> for <some set of dimensions> for the last/next <timeframe>”. Literally, thousands of analysts just
by sologoub 9y ago
A lot of requests to BI teams are simply “what’s the <metric> for <some set of dimensions> for the last/next <timeframe>”. Literally, thousands of analysts just answer these one liners day in and day out.
More diligent/experienced people will know to ask the “whys”, and recommend better insights, but generally it’s not much more than that and Alex can handle a lot of these provided there is a robust enough dataset/reporting API behind it.
- sgt101 9y agoNot convinced, these kind of asks can get mopped up with a web app if there is a robust dataset/API available. BI teams get used / needed when the data needs fixing and also when the question appears to be of the form above but in fact is of the form "I have a new metric I want to explore across dimensions that are not in the data set"