Entries by Adam Smith

Part 4: Dashboards are Like Plants, They Need Tending

Building Great Dashboards Series Part 4: Dashboards are Like Plants, They Need Tending This is the fourth, and final, part of our series on building great dashboards. If you have not read the earlier posts you can find them here: Part 1: Gathering Requirements Part 2: Creating a Mock-Up Part 3: Solicit Feedback While Building […]

Part 3: Solicit Feedback While Building a Dashboard

Building Great Dashboards Series Part 3: Solicit Feedback While Building a Dashboard This is part three of our four-part series on building great dashboards.  If you have not read Part 1: Gathering Dashboard Requirements or Part 2: Creating a Dashboard Mock-Up, you may want to go back and read them. In our previous blog post, we explained the […]

Part 2: Creating a Dashboard Mock-Up

Building Great Dashboards Series Part 2: Creating a Dashboard Mock-up This is part two of our four-part series on building great dashboards.  If you have not read Part 1: Gathering Dashboard Requirements, you may want to go back and start there. In our previous blog post, we described how to have a productive requirements gathering meeting, […]

Part 1: Gathering Dashboard Requirements

Building Great Dashboards Series Part 1: Gathering Dashboard Requirements Self-service dashboards have been growing in popularity for many years, but the truth is, for many teams, stakeholders still rely heavily on having a Data Analyst to walk them through the process and come up with thought-provoking questions to ask.  When teams were working in the […]

5 Takeaways from Tableau

In October, SIGMA Data Scientist, Adam Smith attended Tableau’s coveted conference in New Orleans. Today he shares his biggest takeaways: 1. Mobile is now One theme across many conference sessions included the importance of creating dashboards that work across screen sizes: desktop, tablet, and mobile. Fortunately, Tableau has a Dashboard Layout tool that allows you […]

Jump Start Your Bank’s Data-Driven Marketing Program

Data has been the buzzword de jour over the last five years. Still, most banks haven’t moved beyond data being “nice to have.” On September 24th, SIGMA Data Scientist, Adam Smith, will be speaking at the ABA Bank Marketing Conference in Baltimore and giving a presentation about Data and Machine Learning Worth Your Time and […]