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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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actionable insight

/ˈæk.ʃən.ə.bəl ˈɪn.saɪt/ - n.

1. Term struck pending the definitions of action, owner, and decision right it claims to carry; absent those, the insight is observed but not actionable.

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See also
  • data storytellingThe discipline of making a number persuasive before it is correct.
  • drill-downThe feature requested in every demo and used the day after the number is already wrong.
  • vanity metricA number that goes up to make a slide feel better and a quarter look busier.