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Best Practices


From Guts to Glory: Making the Plan
Having a plan to tackle your analyses will not just save time—it will save effort, cost, and resources.

Lisa Ciancarelli
Nov 25, 20259 min read


Analyses to Drive Executive Action
When you meet executives where they are, speaking in terms of revenue, strategy, and tangible outcomes instead of asking them to translate your analysis into their priorities, something fundamental shifts.

Lisa Ciancarelli
Nov 18, 202510 min read


Smart Analyses: Impactful Numbers
This article shares my own strategies to turn any analysis into something executives embrace.

Lisa Ciancarelli
Nov 11, 202510 min read


Trusted Insights When Time is Short
Your stomach drops. You've got spreadsheets scattered across three folders, data from four different sources, and exactly two and a half hours to make sense of it all.

Lisa Ciancarelli
Nov 4, 20257 min read


Transforming Data into Actionable Insights
This article walks through five connected practices that consistently turn scattered metrics into recommendations stakeholders trust and act on quickly.

Lisa Ciancarelli
Oct 28, 20258 min read


Build Trust & Influence With Your Data
Shifting from reporter to advisor boils down to five practices that make your analysis auditable, understandable, and defensible.

Lisa Ciancarelli
Oct 21, 20258 min read


Win the Room With These Storytelling Tactics
data storytelling—the disciplined practice of presenting evidence so stakeholders immediately understand what matters most, why it's changing, who it affects, and what opportunity lies ahead.

Lisa Ciancarelli
Oct 14, 202511 min read


Visualization: Making Insights Impossible to Ignore
You already have everything you need to make your data visualizations powerful and persuasive. What you might be missing is the strategic framework to channel that power effectively.

Lisa Ciancarelli
Oct 7, 20257 min read


The 5 Habits of Highly Effective Spreadsheets
Your spreadsheet isn't just a calculator—it's a strategic weapon.

Lisa Ciancarelli
Sep 30, 20256 min read


Power Shift: Data-Driven Decisions
This guide will show you exactly how to transform raw numbers into winning strategies that get results.

Lisa Ciancarelli
Sep 2, 20255 min read


Insight to Influence: 5 Tactics to Drive Trust in Your Analysis
How the most influential analytics professionals use ethical practices to earn a seat at the executive table—and keep it.

Lisa Ciancarelli
Aug 26, 20257 min read


Driving Real Business Impact by Changing Your Perspective
Our most powerful insights come when we truly focus on what the data and our stakeholders are trying to say.

Lisa Ciancarelli
Aug 19, 20255 min read


Data Driven Case Studies
Case studies are a valuable tool for businesses to express value and elevate their profiles.

Lisa Ciancarelli
Aug 12, 20256 min read


ATSC 3.0 Explained: How It Will Transform US Broadcasting by 2030
In my interest to better understand what ATSC is all about, and hoping to share a point where others can add, refine and even revise, I thought I'd pull together some insights to provide a compilation of thoughts and information.

Lisa Ciancarelli
Aug 6, 20257 min read


Best Practices for Making Strategic Decisions on KPIs
An understanding of company goals, well defined questions, collection of the data to track and manage the KPIs, who is owns the tracking, transparency on the reporting and interpretation of the data supporting them, are all part of something that seems so simple at first glance.

Lisa Ciancarelli
Aug 5, 20257 min read


Turning Data & Insights Into Action
The difference between reports that get filed away and those that drive real change? Clear writing that tells a story.

Lisa Ciancarelli
Jul 29, 20256 min read


5 Organization Tips to Transform Your Analyses
The solution isn't about becoming a data science wizard or mastering complex statistical methods. It's about something much simpler: getting organized.

Lisa Ciancarelli
Jul 22, 20256 min read


Numbers to Stories: Best Practices for Data Visualizations
Every data analyst faces this same challenge: transforming raw numbers into insights to make an impactful statement without getting carried away

Lisa Ciancarelli
Jul 15, 20259 min read


Spreadsheets to Strategy: 5 Ways to Make Your Analysis Irresistible
Transform your data analysis from ignored reports to executive action. Learn 5 proven tactics from a seasoned analyst to make your insights impossible to ignore.

Lisa Ciancarelli
Jul 8, 20257 min read


From Guts to Glory: Where do I Start My Analysis?
Transform business problems into data insights. Step-by-step guide for college students and new professionals starting analytics careers.

Lisa Ciancarelli
Jun 3, 20256 min read
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