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Table Of Contents
Data Fluency
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This book describes data products as the medium for communication in your organization. Data products include the periodic reports that explain what’s happening in a functional area, the dashboards that attempt to provide a high-level view of performance, the spreadsheet models that describe financial projections, and the presentations that tell a story with data. In a blog post about data products, Harlan Harris says, “Data products make it easy for regular people to get what they need without having to dive into a very complex set of data and a very complex set of algorithms.”1
We use the term “products” because they represent the transformation of data into something useful that can be delivered to the people who want to consume the information. The best data products are:
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