{"id":5539,"date":"2013-07-29T17:15:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T15:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?page_id=5539"},"modified":"2024-08-19T18:36:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T16:36:31","slug":"analytics-cartoons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/cartoons\/analytics-cartoons","title":{"rendered":"Analytics Cartoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A gallery of some of my more popular Big Data, Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Performance Management cartoons &#8212; feel free to use these 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<p>Top\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/cartoons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cartoon page here<\/a>, including links to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/cartoons\/analytics-cartoons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">analytics cartoons<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/more-analytics-cartoons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more analytics cartoons<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/cartoons\/yet-more-analytics-cartoons\">yet more analytics cartoons<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/cartoons\/artificial-intelligence-cartoons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">artificial intelligence cartoons<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/marketing-cartoons\">marketing cartoons<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/social-cartoons\">social cartoons<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/innovation-cartoons\">innovation cartoons<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/sustainability-cartoons\" data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">sustainability cartoons<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/cartoons\/work-frustration-cartoons\">work frustration cartoons<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/cartoons\/other-cartoons\">other cartoons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Opinions Are Good. Data is Better.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Bigger-data-690.jpg\">\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/i-have-data_3.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/i-have-data_3.jpg?resize=690%2C342&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cartoon: Why you two have finished arguing your opinions, I actually have data!\" width=\"690\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch out for &#8220;Gut Feel&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/gut-feel-analytics.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20464\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/gut-feel-analytics.jpg?resize=608%2C436&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/gut-feel-analytics.jpg?resize=608%2C436&amp;ssl=1 608w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/gut-feel-analytics.jpg?resize=1024%2C734&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/gut-feel-analytics.jpg?resize=768%2C550&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/gut-feel-analytics.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Strategic Decisions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ive-made-a-strategic-decision.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20466\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ive-made-a-strategic-decision.jpg?resize=608%2C617&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ive-made-a-strategic-decision.jpg?resize=608%2C617&amp;ssl=1 608w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ive-made-a-strategic-decision.jpg?resize=1009%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1009w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ive-made-a-strategic-decision.jpg?resize=768%2C780&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ive-made-a-strategic-decision.jpg?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ive-made-a-strategic-decision.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>The Bad Data Breakup<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/its_not_you.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/its_not_you.jpg?resize=690%2C517&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cartoon: It's not you. It's your data.\" width=\"690\" height=\"517\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Big Data Boasts<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Bigger-data-690.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5285\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Bigger-data-690.jpg?resize=690%2C702&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cartoon: I think you'll find that mine is bigger than yours!\" width=\"690\" height=\"702\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>What You Get If You Don&#8217;t Have Analytics. A HIPPO.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130730-124204.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5564\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130730-124204.jpg?resize=690%2C610&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cartoon: No Analytics? Welcome to the Hippo\" width=\"690\" height=\"610\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Some Middle Managers Don&#8217;t Like Analytics<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cartoon-analytics-cant-cover-up-your-incompetence-new.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-15970\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cartoon-analytics-cant-cover-up-your-incompetence-new.jpg?resize=525%2C659&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cartoon-analytics-cant-cover-up-your-incompetence-new.jpg?resize=816%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 816w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cartoon-analytics-cant-cover-up-your-incompetence-new.jpg?resize=558%2C700&amp;ssl=1 558w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cartoon-analytics-cant-cover-up-your-incompetence-new.jpg?resize=768%2C964&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cartoon-analytics-cant-cover-up-your-incompetence-new.jpg?w=1041&amp;ssl=1 1041w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0There&#8217;s No Reward Without Risk<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/performance-without-risk.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/performance-without-risk.jpg?resize=690%2C639&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cartoon: tracking performance without risk is... shortsighted\" width=\"690\" height=\"639\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0One of The Ironies of Calculating the ROI for BI<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tried-to-build-an-ROI-case-for-BI1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tried-to-build-an-ROI-case-for-BI1.jpg?resize=690%2C474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cartoon: I tried to build an ROI case for BI, but I couldn't access any data!\" width=\"690\" height=\"474\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s the ROI of What You Don&#8217;t Know?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Whats-the-ROI-of-knowing-what-you-dont-know.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Whats-the-ROI-of-knowing-what-you-dont-know.jpg?resize=690%2C496&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cartoon: What's the ROI of knowing what you don't know? (I don't know, either)\" width=\"690\" height=\"496\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Business Intelligence Wish Fulfilment<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/press-this-button-to-save-millions-of-dollars1.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5548\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/press-this-button-to-save-millions-of-dollars1.png?resize=690%2C546&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cartoon: Press this button to save millions of dollars\" width=\"690\" height=\"546\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s The ROI of Business Intelligence? Higher than the ROI of Ignorance.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/whats-the-roi-of-ignorance.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/whats-the-roi-of-ignorance.jpg?resize=690%2C1372&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cartoon: What's the ROI of BI? It's higher than the ROI of ignorance\" width=\"690\" height=\"1372\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Data Quality? Cross Your Fingers And Hope&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/crossed-fingers.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5551\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/crossed-fingers.png?resize=690%2C502&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cartoon: Yes, you can absolutely trust those numbers\" width=\"690\" height=\"502\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>The Daily Life of a BI Incompetency Center<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/biic.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/biic.jpg?resize=690%2C546&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cartoon: A BI Incompetency Center in action\" width=\"690\" height=\"546\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Stop Confusing Me With Facts<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/stopconfusingmewithfacts.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/stopconfusingmewithfacts.jpg?resize=690%2C356&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cartoon: I'm making a decision! Stop confusing me with facts!\" width=\"690\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t Be A Turkey When It Comes To Predictive Analytics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/turkey-predictive-analytics.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5579\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/turkey-predictive-analytics.png?resize=690%2C503&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cartoon: Turkey does predictive analytics just before thanksgiving\" width=\"690\" height=\"503\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>These Analytics Folks Think They Know Everything!<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/know-everything.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5574\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/know-everything.png?resize=690%2C406&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cartoon: these analytics people think they know everything!\" width=\"690\" height=\"406\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Is Everybody Else Doing It While You Just Watch?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cartoon-analytics-worred-that-everybody-else-is-doing-it.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5576\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cartoon-analytics-worred-that-everybody-else-is-doing-it.png?resize=346%2C646&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cartoon: Analytics: worried that everybody else is doing it while you just watch?\" width=\"346\" height=\"646\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Have ERP? Thank Heavens for Analytics<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/analytics-and-ERP.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5559\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/analytics-and-ERP.png?resize=690%2C502&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"analytics and ERP\" width=\"690\" height=\"502\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Data lake? Bring it on!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/data-lake-bring-it-on-2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17204\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/data-lake-bring-it-on-2.jpg?resize=608%2C476&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/data-lake-bring-it-on-2.jpg?resize=608%2C476&amp;ssl=1 608w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/data-lake-bring-it-on-2.jpg?resize=768%2C601&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/data-lake-bring-it-on-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C802&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/data-lake-bring-it-on-2.jpg?w=1492&amp;ssl=1 1492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[NEW: <a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/more-analytics-cartoons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More Analytics Cartoons<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gallery of some of my more popular Big Data, Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Performance Management cartoons &#8212; feel free to use these 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19680,"parent":7229,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5539","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3X9RF-1rl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5539","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=5539"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22054,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5539\/revisions\/22054"}],"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\/19680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}