{"id":21513,"date":"2023-11-05T12:25:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T11:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?page_id=21513"},"modified":"2024-08-19T18:43:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T16:43:08","slug":"yet-more-analytics-cartoons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/cartoons\/yet-more-analytics-cartoons","title":{"rendered":"Yet More Analytics Cartoons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[This is a follow on to the More Analytics Cartoon page<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please feel free to use these cartoons in your presentations, university courses, books etc, for free, as long as you drop me a line to let me know what you have planned (telliott at timoelliott dot com),<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top\u00a0cartoon page here<\/a>, including links to\u00a0analytics cartoons<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0more analytics cartoons<\/a>, yet more analytics cartoons<\/a> and\u00a0artificial intelligence cartoons<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0marketing cartoons<\/a>,\u00a0social cartoons<\/a>,\u00a0innovation cartoons<\/a>, sustainability cartoons<\/a>, work frustration cartoons<\/a>, other cartoons<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note that I am not a gifted artist! While I drew the simpler drawings myself, the more impressive art is the work of ChatGPT, typically with a lot of combining and corrections in Photoshop to get the image I want.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A classic situation — lots of analytics, but still no information:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No, I’m afraid we can’t just make it up — this is business, not politics!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Facts can be annoying to some managers…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s really important to have a clear data strategy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s clear that we need more data…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Virtual reality analytics? Sure. But how do I get it into Excel?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More whimsy is needed in digital dashboards!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We’re pretty sure about the data quality in this<\/em> box…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A sobering thought!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finally, a data visualization you can get your teeth into!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s important to try new ways to get the data across to people….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Excel is really not the best tool for complex analytics… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SO many organizations still rely on spreadsheets for things like complex planning, when they really shouldn’t (there are now much better alternatives)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Data is like children. It’s constantly on the move and loves to get dirty \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How was I supposed to clean the data, then?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is not what people mean by a data dump…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An increasing number of “Key” Performance Indicators is not a sign of progress!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In an ever-changing market environment, maybe you do need a crystal ball!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When did your data last enjoy itself?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A very niche Belgian data lake joke (this is the Mannekin Pis statue in the center of Brussels). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s a rare sighting of a data miner in action!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Data visualization doesn’t work if the underlying data isn’t good (and that’s usually the case) — so it can be “lipstick on a pig”. And yet… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I hate the analogy of “data is the new oil” (dirty, polluting, unsustainable), and prefer “data is the new soil”. Here’s a… variation on that: what if data were… shit?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Using facts and data for analytics can be really tedious when there are other ways of doing things… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And even if not knowing about survivor bias never did you any harm, that doesn’t mean it’s not real!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Data quality? Too hard to fix, probably… so let’s go ahead anyway!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Go back to the earlier Analytics Cartoons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This is a follow on to the More Analytics Cartoon page] Please feel free to use these cartoons in your presentations, university courses, books etc, for free, as long as you drop me a line to let me know what you have planned (telliott at timoelliott dot com), Top\u00a0cartoon page here, including links to\u00a0analytics cartoons,\u00a0\u00a0more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21755,"parent":7229,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21513","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3X9RF-5AZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21513"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22057,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21513\/revisions\/22057"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}