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Systems thinking vs. ad hoc analysis - Power BI Tutorial
From the course: Power BI Mistakes to Avoid
Systems thinking vs. ad hoc analysis
- [Instructor] A seasoned business intelligence developer knows how to take a systems approach to their analysis. This kind of approach helps you eliminate human errors and build reports much faster. When I first started my consulting agency, I often took a reactive approach to my client engagements. They would approach me with a problem, then I would get to work digging through the data to analyze that problem. Conducting analysis just as questions arise, is an ad hoc approach to analysis. This means you're building one-time reports to address specific questions, and there are a couple downsides to this approach. Namely, it is time consuming, so you take a lot of time to manually create these reports every time, and since you're manually creating these reports, they are prone to human error. After consulting for a few years, I realized that I needed to take a more proactive approach to my consulting interactions. So I…
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