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― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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04 Jun The Tyranny of Measurement: On Invisible Cities and Unquantifiable Value

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Yes, the fault might be our current project on PowerBI, but this month I've been reasoning a lot around our Illuministic obsession over measurements and how that affects our approach to business intelligence in the era of Big Data. On top of this, I've been...

23 May KPIs and Gaming the Metrics

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Earlier this week I wrote about KPIs and how we're using them wrong, l but I fear I left something out, which is how KPIs are used in education. Nowhere is the distortion of goals by poorly chosen KPIs more visible than in the classroom....

21 May The KPI Trap

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How the Wrong Metrics Derail Digital Thinking (and What I Tell My Students About It) One of my students once proudly told me their Revit family—a window—had 42 parameters. They had worked hard on it, tuning and nesting constraints, adding types, and connecting dimensions to carefully labeled...

23 Feb #BIMtool – Qlik

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Lo strumento di questa settimana è Qlik.com, una delle principali piattaforme di analisi dati, considerata da Forbes una tra le 10 migliori. Rispetto ad altre piattaforme, dal mio punto di vista ha tre principali vantaggi: attivare un account è rapido e intuitivo; lavora completamente in...