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Back in March 2023 I came across the Forever Pollution Project, a cross-border investigation into PFAS, the synthetic “forever chemicals”. What caught my attention was that the team had published all of their data with the reporting, which I thought was a truly smart move. It meant people like me... Read more: Revisiting the PFAS map, three years later →
This is the third of three posts about the reporting solutions I put together when applying for a position with SERV. The first two describe how the synthetic data was created and how the HTML report was built on top of it. That report is interactive, but only within the... Read more: A dashboard without a BI tool, packed into a Mac app →
With the synthetic data at hand as described here the next step is the reporting part. As said before, having an interactive report, i.e., one that enables to sort, filter, and even cross-filter visuals and tables, does not require an overkill tool such as Tableau or PowerBI. Instead it can... Read more: An HTML report without a BI tool →
When applying for a position with SERV, Switzerland’s export risk insurance, I thought I might showcase a couple of reporting solutions that avoid the typical BI tools. The reporting should work in a transitional phase, where one cannot rely on a top-notch analytics environment (I’m mainly speaking about data availability... Read more: Building synthetic data you can trust →
“Can you pull the new FTS numbers?” The message looks like a thirty-second favour. The first part of this pair followed it downstream, into a wrong number baked into an expensive decision, and landed on a single observation: the recurring failure is a question that was never framed properly before... Read more: The two-way bargain between business and data →
