{"id":98,"date":"2005-11-21T11:15:29","date_gmt":"2005-11-21T18:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2005-11-21T11:15:29","modified_gmt":"2005-11-21T18:15:29","slug":"voted-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2005\/11\/21\/voted-number-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Voted NUMBER ONE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Working daily with people who are trying to measure and understand their world through the use of technology and BI methodologies I often hear lots of &#8220;things&#8221; that are important to determine.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is this years top 5 products and what is their annual sales growth for the last 5 years?<\/li>\n<li>Which company division has the most profitable customers, and which division has least profitable customers?<\/li>\n<li>What time of day, in a registered website visitors home time zone are pages viewed on our website split by category?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In other words, there are some very specific things people want to know and brag about both within the company and externally to investors, analysts, and the media.<\/p>\n<p>This predisposes me to question numbers I hear anywhere.  What&#8217;s the qualification, what little keyword allows this company to say they are the top in their cateogory?  Company XYZ is the Number 1 in Sales (in Asia Pacific small to midsized healthcare providers not owned by government and groups exceeding 1billion market cap for fiscal year 2003).  We&#8217;ve all seen it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>One of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.totalcountry.net\/\">online music stations<\/a> had a refreshingly simple claim to fame today that made me laugh out loud:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Total Country.  Rated #1 amoungst people who really like us!&#8221; <\/i> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A refreshingly honest figure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working daily with people who are trying to measure and understand their world through the use of technology and BI methodologies I often hear lots of &#8220;things&#8221; that are important to determine. What is this years top 5 products and what is their annual sales growth for the last 5 years? Which company division has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}