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Launching the Empowered Community!
We’re excited to announce the launch of our Empowered Community – the online collaboration platform for Empower Architects.
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Setting up for success
Latest research into the future of the finance function and what the millennial finance professionals think
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Effective global management and data-driven insight
What the WPP story can tell us about effective global management, and how analytics can drive sustainable growth
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Coping with market uncertainty Part 3
In the latest post in this series, we look at how better forecasting can help business leaders cope with market uncertainty
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Optical illusion demonstrates how visualisation can trick us
A video of a man moving two pieces of his son’s toy train tracks has gone viral this week. See why the effect has been baffling
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Coping with market uncertainty Part 2
The second post in this series: We look at how different data transformations can help companies face market uncertainty with greater confidence
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The end of quarterly reporting?
Richard Freeman explores how reporting can be reinvented, to more effectively promote and maintain business performance.
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Gartner Summit: the exciting side of governance
Anouska Backshall writes on the recent Gartner BI and Analytics Summit, and how efficient data governance can facilitate effective analytics
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Gartner BI and Analytics Summit: business outcomes are key
Anouska Backshall reports from this week's Gartner BI and Analytics Summit, on how analysis can focus more on tangible business outcomes
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Coping with market uncertainty Part 1
We look at how business leaders can build a proactive approach to coping with market uncertainty
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Data Visualisation for FP&A teams
Simon Bittlestone looks at recent developments in the use of Data Visualisation by FP&A teams.
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Fresh foods sector: understanding profitability
We look at recent data from the UK retail industry, and at how profitability analysis can help make the most of seasonal variations in demand.
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Regulatory risk in food service industry
Following media discussion around the idea of a 'sugar tax' in the UK, we look at how innovation can be managed in response to regulatory risk
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Risk analysis in retail financial services
As UK lenders grant more mortgages for longer than the usual 25 years, we look at how risk analysis can evolve to keep pace
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Demand forecasting in the retail industry
Cat Powell looks at the aftermath of the festive season for the UK's retailers, and the need for better demand forecasting in the industry
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Forecasting for large organisations
We explore how business leaders at large organisations can build a framework for generating effective performance predictions.
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Predictive analytics and industry disruption
Simon Bittlestone looks at how predictive analytics can be used to gain insight on the progress of industry trends and disruption
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A chart chooser for trends
Developing a chart chooser for each of the seven trend categories
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Mis-scaled bar chart
Looking at good examples of a mis-scaled bar chart
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Moving Annual Average - a powerful data transformation
Learn how to use a process to calculating an MAT
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Choosing the scale for a graph
The scale for a graph axis can have significant impact on how an audience interprets a message and is an important part of optimising data visualization.
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Why bars are better than bubbles
The infographic in Raconteur includes a chart that aims to make quantitative comparisons through the use of circles of different areas.
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Today's misleading infographic
The Raconteur supplement in the Times contains a large centre spread infographic entitled “How UK compares to European rivals”.
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A checklist for an effective dashboard
A simple 10 point checklist that we give Metapraxis analysts to use when they create an executive dashboard.
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Today's misleading infographic
A colleague has drawn my attention to this infographic in today’s City AM concerning the cost and value of communications services in the UK.
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Today's misleading infographic
The graph at the top of this article appeared as part of an infographic published by a media company called Raconteur, which was distributed as a supplement to today’s copy of The Times.
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Today's misleading infographic
Infographics are generally designed to do a different job from the visualization of MI in business - their primary purpose is to engage or entertain through design-focused visuals rather than to provide actionable insight. That said, visualization and infographics are on a continuum.
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