Dashboards are a sacred artifact in the syncretic religion of data analysis. At various points I've used them for reporting, automating analyses, making basic tools, storing groups of thematically related queries, generating viz in EDA when I'm too lazy to fire up a notebook ...
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Collaborative tools like this one can be useful for teaching interested folks how to do analysis better, but one major problem dashboards attempt to solve is there are a lot of people who just do not care about doing data analysis.
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And you know what? That's fine. That's why businesses pay for data scientists and analysts--to provide a service that other people can't or aren't interested in doing.
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To be clear, I do think tools like this will help pull more people into the fold of data savviness. I just don't think they can solve all the problems dashboards currently solve, particularly the problem of giving numbers to an exec who couldn't care less about how they got there
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