Analytics
A practical guide: the Central Analytics Standing Group is working to bring together the best resources for the information you most seek as indicated in the 2019 survey.
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General
Introduction
Introduction to Analytics
Covers menu structure, icons, and structure of Analytics. This also demonstrates how to copy and paste an analysis, addresses a few key issues you might encounter, and covers some details about displaying the reporting and rearranging columns in the display.
Analytics 101
From the 2019 Summer Meeting
Dashboards
Creating a Dashboard
Dashboard Prompts
Annual Reports
Coming in December 2019
Service Area Reports
Circulation
What books loaned the most last year
Collection Services
Tracking the Age of Collections
Resource Sharing Fulfillment (RSF)
Advanced
SQL - Structured Query Language
Analytics 201 – SQL Statements in OBI
Derive hour, day, etc. from date; date arithmetic; tops, bottoms
Tips and Tricks with SQL Statements
Use of timestampadd and functions on CURRENT_DATE for loan information.
Loans Over the Last Three Days - PDF, Bill Kelm, Willamette, (July 2016)
Show loans for the past three days using TIMESTAMPADD, making a graph & widget.
Primo
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