Dashboards

Throughout this chapter, you have been moving to higher levels of collection and aggregation: from collections of individual records identified through search and tagging, to standard report, to summary and matrix reports, and to collection of data for trend analysis with analytic snapshots. The greater the aggregation of data, the more far-reaching and potentially valuable the information you can extract.

But you cannot keep increasing the complexity or size of your reports as you increase the amount of data used for the report, as the key points in the report will be obscured by its complexity. To solve the problem of making data understandable, without sacrificing either the aggregation or the ability to easily drill down to determine ...

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