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

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executive summary

/ɪɡˈzɛk.jə.tɪv ˈsʌm.ər.i/ - n.

1 [colloq.] The only slide that gets read, written by the person who least wanted to read the others.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A short framing of an analysis that states the finding and recommendation before the detail.

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See also
  • data storytellingThe discipline of making a number persuasive before it is correct.
  • executive dashboardThe one dashboard that must never be red while the report is open.
  • hippoThe variable the dashboard was quietly fitted to predict.