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K has a number of helpful Dashboards and Insight pages to support Data Managers and Data Governance

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This page will share some tips around how to make the most of these insights

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Only available to Data Managers and Data Governance Users

Overview of the Insights Dashboard

For Data Manager and Data Governance Manager, the first icon on the side bar is the Insights Page.

You will land on this page automatically when you log in.

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The insights page is divided into 6 tabs:

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Ecosystem: Explore usage at at data, content or user lens

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Usage: Drill down on usage information for a specific source or tool

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Map: A visual representation around how your ecosystem is connected

  • This feature is currently in Beta (as at March 2022)

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Manages to manage and govern the Data Ecosystem. These include:

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  • Usage Insights - Deep dive on data usage

  • Complexity insights - Understand the degree to which your data assets are connected

  • Governance Insights - Drill down on governance information for a specific source

  • Data Quality Dashboard - View DQ metrics across sources, domains, collections and by DQ tool.

  • Issue

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  • issues raised on data and content

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  • Owner Dashboard - View a snapshot of key data metrics for data assets specific to a Data Owner

  • Steward Dashboard - View a snapshot of key data metrics for data assets specific to a Data Steward

  • Data Load Dashboard - View the current state of metadata loads from your connected sources

Tips on how to make the most of Insights

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Insights Tab

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Scenario

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How K can help

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Ecosystem

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You want to see the overall effectiveness of your data ecosystem

Select the different categories; data, content and users; to see the the total usage of these asset types over time. Identify if the trend of usage matches expectations.

Use the Usage Tab to drill down into specific sources or tools

You can also click on each chart to drill down to asset level detail.

Dashboard data is refreshed daily by default. Your K admin can specify a more frequent update schedule are run an adhoc refresh via Batch Manager in Platform Settings.

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Insights and Dashboards are only accessible to Data Managers and Data Governance Users


Usage Insights

The Usage Insights page allows users to drill down on usage information for a specific source or tool. This can be particularly useful when planning migration activity.

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Insights on this dashboard are designed to support data optimisation or migration efforts.

When selecting the By Sources tab, K also provides of Insights and Recommendations on which data assets you could review to help optimise costs through decommissioning activity or uplift data governance by highlighting which unclassified tables should be reviewed.

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Below is a table explaining how usage is calculated.

Usage Frequency

Calculation Method

Daily

Data asset was used 10+ weekdays over the last 3 weeks

Weekly

Data asset was used in 3 different weeks over the last 4 weeks

Monthly

Data asset was used in 3 different months over the last 4 months

Infrequent

Data asset was used at least once within the last 4 months

Unused

Data asset has not been used within the last 4 months


Complexity Insights

Use the Complexity insights to understand how connected your data assets are to each other

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You can select different views including both upstream/downstream complexity or just upstream or downstream.

You can also customise the ranges of complexity by selecting the settings icon on the right hand side.

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Governance Insights

Use the Governance Insights to track classifications, ownership and lineage quality across data assets that are being used.

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The Governance Dashboard also provides helpful Recommendations one data assets for review and data assets missing Data Owners or Data Stewards.

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Data Quality Dashboard
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The Data Quality Dashboard provides an overview of data quality across the ecosystem. Drill through to DQ by Source, Domain, Collection or DQ tool.

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Select a specific domain, or collection to drill through to details about DQ for assets that belong to that domain or collection.


Issue Dashboard

The Issue Dashboard provides an overview of all the current issues raised in K. Download an Issue Report to see all issues and their current status.

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Under Recommendations you can also quickly locate which open issues currently have no assignee.

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Data Load Dashboard

Use the Platform Load Dashboard to see the current state of source loads into K.

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Data Owner and Data Steward Dashboards

The Owner Dashboard displays all of the data items that a Data Owner or Data Steward manages and provides a snapshot of key governance and quality metrics.

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Tips on how to make the most of Insights and Dashboards

Insights and Dashboards

Scenario

How K can help

Usage Insights

Your are planning a migration activity

Selecting the data source, you can explore how heavily it is used and which are the key teams you need to engage

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Map

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You want to view how all the data and analytical content sources are connected

Use the Map to view the different sources; what assets they contain; what domains and classifications they belong and drill down for further details

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Governance Dashboard

You want to track the overall progress against Data Governance KPI’s

Use the Governance Tab to track classifications, ownership and lineage quality across data assets that are being used.

Identify gaps to address across your data assets that matter (used) vs. data assets that do not matter (unused).

Data Quality Dashboard

You want to track DQ trends across critical domains

Identify which assets within a domain are creating significant impacts to data quality.

Issue Dashboard

You want to identify the current state of data quality issues crowd sourced by your Data workforce

The Issue Tab provides a overview of all the current issues raised in K. Download a report to see all issues and their current status.

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Data Load Dashboard

You want to check the current state of the K platform.

Use the Platform Tab to see the current state of source loads into K.