LightsOnData

Articles and resources for data management in non-profits, governmental, healthcare and higher-ed organizations

All posts by Nicole Hitner

About the author Nicole Hitner

Nicole Hitner is Content Marketing Manager at Exago, Inc. (https://exagoinc.com), producers of embedded business intelligence for software companies. She manages the company’s content marketing, writes for their blog, hosts their podcast Data Talks, and assists the product design team in continuing to enhance Exago BI. You can reach her at content@exagoinc.com.

What Is ad hoc reporting?

Ad hoc means “for this” in Latin and refers to something done for a specific purpose. Ad hoc reporting, then, is the process of creating reports for a specific occasion (as opposed to for general use). In business intelligence, ad hoc reporting supplements canned reports

The anatomy of a data story

Stories are how people make sense of the world, so it follows that they’d also be our way of making sense of data. As much as technology can facilitate data storytelling, it cannot (yet) perform the pivotal step of placing data into the human context.