Dashboards and Reports Share Evidence, but Serve Different Jobs
Compare Build Dashboard and Build Report: their audiences, metric models, evidence requirements, acceptance criteria, and delivery conditions.
Knowledge path
Data Agent
Reproducible Calculations Make Charts Credible
How Jupyter Notebooks and Visualize Data connect reproducible calculations, chart contracts, and honest presentation in a Data Agent workflow.
Data Quality and Validation: Two Gates, Two Risks
Separate checks on source data from independent checks on analytical claims, including grain, missingness, joins, denominators, and causal interpretation.
How Big Is the Market? Deliver an Estimate You Can Interrogate
How Market Sizing fixes boundaries and units, separates facts from proxies and assumptions, and uses sensitivity to pick what to verify first.
When Metrics Drop: Reproduce the Change Before Discussing Causes and Actions
How Metric Diagnostics reproduces a change before explaining it, splits drivers by numerator, denominator, and group, then scopes the cause.
From Defining Success to Sustained Operations: The Complete KPI System Loop
How Design KPIs filters candidate metrics, layers outcomes, drivers, and guardrails, and which six definitions to lock before reporting.
Gather Enough Business Context to Continue
Use search anchors, an evidence funnel, conflict handling, and stopping rules to build a Context Note that keeps a data agent focused on the decision.
Who Routes the 15 Data Analytics Skills?
A practical reading of the Data Analytics Index: eligibility, lead-skill routing, source control, delivery routing, and the completion gate.