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11. Drill down and Drill up

Adam Aspin1  
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STAFFORD, UK
 

Delivering actionable analytics goes beyond just creating visuals. Interacting with the data in a dashboard can be a vital part of how users discover the salient information that the data may contain.

One fundamental way of analyzing data is to drill down into hierarchies of data to see how the data points that make up a visual are collated. This can help you to see “the wood for the trees” and to tease out the nuggets of vital information that a top-level view of the data may be concealing.

Drill down is built into the ...

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