Evidence Newsletter: How to Run an Outstanding Business Review
Evidence Newsletter: How to Run an Outstanding Business Review
Plus, hitting the frontpage of Hacker News and Evidence Cloud Early Access
This is the first newsletter we’ve sent in a while, so, first, hello!
Evidence is an open source publishing tool for data teams. It allows you to build polished data products using SQL and markdown.
Launching Business Reviews
Business Review meetings happen in almost all organizations: where you review key KPIs and decide what actions to take.
When I was involved in these meetings, there were three key frustrations: it was very manual to create the content, discussion often was sidetracked into data quality issues, and completion of actions meeting to meeting was patchy.
A lot of Evidence users are using it to generate reports for business review processes, so last week we launched a slew of content and features for this use case:
A Guide to Running an Outstanding Business Review
See our new guide on how to avoiding the common issues in business review meetings
New Annotation Components
Most businesses need to compare how their metrics are doing vs targets. Our new Reference Line component makes this easy.
Sometimes you need to draw attention to a specific area in a chart. You can do this with a Reference Area.
Use our Business Review Template
Often creating a business review involves business users adding their own commentary to data.
We’ve put together a template (code on GitHub) to show how you can do that, using an integration with AirTable.
Evidence Cloud
Our hosted service for Evidence projects is in early access
On the Internet
We hit the front page of Hacker News (again)
Our new website is live, with an expanded set of examples from the Evidence team and the community
A tweet thread on business reviews that people liked
Want to get in touch? Shoot us a message in Slack, we’d love to hear from you.