Understanding Business Analysts' Needs for Data Report Authoring
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Date
2022
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
Business analysts often create static, data-driven reports to summarize and communicate findings from marketing dashboards. However, the requirements and workflow for creating data-driven reports in business analytics have not been fully investigated. In this work, we interviewed fifteen professional analysts to understand their unique needs for data-driven report authoring and identify gaps between their goals, technical skills, and existing reporting tools. Our findings suggest eight fundamental takeaways for report authoring, such as the need for persistent interactive experiences combined with more robust narrative authoring for linking story pieces and customizing the narrative layout. Based on these interviews, we synthesize the results into five design guidelines to direct future analytic reporting tools.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:eurova.20221076,
booktitle = {EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA)},
editor = {Bernard, Jürgen and Angelini, Marco},
title = {{Understanding Business Analysts' Needs for Data Report Authoring}},
author = {Zhang, Zhuohao and Malik, Sana and Guo, Shunan and Hoffswell, Jane and Rossi, Ryan and Du, Fan and Koh, Eunyee},
year = {2022},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2664-4487},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-183-0},
DOI = {10.2312/eurova.20221076}
}