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Quick Data Lessons: Survivorship Bias

At Geckoboard, we’re on a mission to help people use data more simply and effectively. We’ve...

  • by Adele Simor
Common pitfalls to avoid when setting team goals

Common pitfalls to avoid when setting team goals

  • by Laura Tyson

How to get your team really engaged with your company goals and dashboards

You’ve spent hours identifying the metrics that matter for your business or team and experimenting with data...

  • by Simon Whittick

7 tech founders lift the lid on how they set goals

We believe the best insights for scaling a company come from other founders who have or are currently...

  • by Laura Tyson

Vanity metrics on your dashboard: Are they always so bad?

“Vanity metrics are dangerous.” - Eric Ries, The Lean Startup There is certainly a lot of truth to...

  • by Adele Simor

Build better dashboards by iterating

Great designs rarely come about by accident. Behind almost every successful product or piece of software, a large...

  • by Nick Smith

How to communicate goals to employees for alignment

We’ve talked about setting priorities and choosing metrics that align with those priorities, but if you don’t communicate goals to employees then key metrics remain buried in the document where they were jotted down, and nothing changes because the wider team will be oblivious to them....

  • by Laura Tyson
How to choose the right metrics and set business goals

How to choose the right metrics and set business goals

  • by Laura Tyson

8 Ecommerce Metrics to Track for Black Friday and Through the Holidays

It’s nearly the most wonderful time of the year! This means ecommerce businesses everywhere are revving up...

  • by Laura Tyson

New Feature: Visualizing key metrics from any source just got easier with our Datasets API

Today we’re really excited to announce the launch of our brand new Datasets API, which makes it...

  • by Nick Smith

Location, Location, Location: Where to Put a TV Dashboard in Your Office

You’ve identified a few select metrics to focus on for the quarter that will have a meaningful...

  • by Nick Smith

What’s the Best Way to Visualize Your Data? A Handy Flowchart to Help

One of our engineers, Klara, was curious whether there was a set of guidelines to help people choose...

  • by Nick Smith

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