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Home / Uncategorized / Terms to Know for Prism and People Analytics

Terms to Know for Prism and People Analytics

  • Analytic – Arrangement of data created to solve problems or make decisions
  • Dashboard – Collection of reports in Workday, typically with visuals and links
  • Dimension – An attribute or characteristic that is analyzed with the metric of an analytic
  • Discovery Boards – Analytic reporting tool primarily used for ad hoc reporting
  • Machine Learning – An application of artificial intelligence (AI) that automatically learns and improves from experience without being programmed
  • Metric – A quantifiable measure that is used to track and asses an analytic
  • People Analytics – Workday delivered workforce analytics dashboard that uses machine learning to presents stories from data trends
  • Prism – Data source tool used to combine Workday data and 3rd party data into custom data sources
  • Scorecard – Reports with a number (total, sum, percentage, etc.) and analytic indicator compared to prior period to show on a “card”
  • Story – An output from machine learning composed of a combination of metrics and dimensions that significantly impacts a business question or analytic
  • Trended Worker – Workday delivered data set for reporting workforce changes like Hires and Terminations

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