CHAPTER 14

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Reporting Design

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

—Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), American writer and cartoonist

People use reporting in every aspect of their daily lives. Reports provide the local weather, the status of the morning train, and even the best place to get a cup of joe. And this is all before getting to work! Once at work, reports include enterprise dashboards, system outage reports, and timesheet cards. Any way you slice it, reporting is something that everyone uses.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could understand how that reporting works? How the reports get put together and how the ...

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