Introduction to Analytics Connie Braun and Dominic Doneux
Introduction to Analytics Connie Braun and Dominic Doneux © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary
First Steps • Add a sub-folder in your institutional folder to hold the analyses we will create • If more than one person from your institution is participating in today’s training, determine a naming convention (e. g. initials or name to start each saved analysis name) © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 2
Introduction This session will be heavily hands-on • • Examining out-of-the-box reports Scenarios will be presented Analyses will be created Discussion and questions are welcome © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 3
• Overview and Infrastructure • Running and Modifying “Out-of-the -Box” Analyses • Using Analyses Shared by the Community • Creating Simple Analyses © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary
Overview and Infrastructure © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 5
Introduction • Alma Analytics contains • a group of “out-of-the-box” analyses available to all Alma institutions • a group of analyses contributed by the Alma community • a place to store analyses created by participants at an institution for use at the institution • private workspace, viewable only to the operator creating the analyses © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 6
User Roles • Staff operators with the Design Analytics role may create analyses • Staff operators with the Analytics Administrator role may expose results to those without this role © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 7
Running and Modifying “Out-of-the-Box” Analyses © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 8
Out-of-the-Box Analyses • Acquisitions • E-Inventory • Fulfillment • Inventory • Many others also available © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 9
Three Types of Data in Alma Measure © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary Attribute Hierarchy 10
Introduction • Acquisitions • E-Inventory • Fulfillment • Inventory © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 11
Acquisitions © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 12
E-Inventory © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 13
Fulfillment © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 14
Physical Inventory © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 15
Using Analyses Shared by the Community © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 16
Analyses Shared by the Alma Community • Individual institutions • Consortia • Regional User Groups • Many analyses available © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 17
Best Practice For Working with Community Contributions • Analyses found here will run against your institution’s data, so look at and run freely • Please DO NOT modify analyses in the Community folder • Use the Copy and Paste function to make a local copy or Save As to your institution’s folders © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 18
Best Example of Sharing an Analysis © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 19
Analyses Shared by the Community © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 20
Creating Simple Analyses © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 21
Hands-On I Patrons with Expired Records, Owing >$10 Description: This analysis focuses on getting a list of patrons with expiration dates in the past who owe more than $10 in fines or fees Subject Area(s): Fines and Fees © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 22
Getting Started with a New Analysis © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 23
Choose Fines and Fees Subject Area © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 24
Add Columns to Analyses © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 25
Patrons with Expired Records Save the Analysis! © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 26
Add A Filter © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 27
Add Another Filter © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 28
Add Another Filter for Fine Fee Status © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 29
View the Results © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 30
Patrons with Expired Records Save the Analysis! © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 31
Add Another Filter for Original Amount is > 10 © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 32
What the Analysis Looks Like Now © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 33
View the Results © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 34
See Actual $$ Owing Rather Than Rounded Value © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 35
View the Results © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 36
Patrons with Expired Records Save the Analysis! © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 37
Hands-On II Count of Users by Group Description: This analysis focuses on obtaining a count of users by group. Demonstrates how to change an attribute to become a measure. We’ll take it a step further so that we can identify users in a specific group. Subject Area(s): Users © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 38
Getting Started with a New Analysis © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 39
Choose Users Subject Area © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 40
Add Columns to Analysis © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 41
View Results © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 42
Count of Users by Group Save the Analysis! © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 43
Change Attribute to Measure for User ID Column © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 44
Edit the Formula and Insert Function © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 45
Insert Function © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 46
What the Analysis Looks Like Now/View Results © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 47
Count of Users by Group Save the Analysis! © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 48
Tidy Up the Column Heading © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 49
View the Results © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 50
Count of Users by Group Save the Analysis! © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 51
We value your feedback! Please complete the session survey in the schedule section of the app. © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary 52
Thank you! © 2019 Ex Libris | Confidential & Proprietary
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