Announcement
Exclude partial intervals in Cloud Analytics Reports
By Vadim Solovey
Reports can now exclude partial time intervals, improving accuracy for month-over-month comparisons and preventing skewed heatmaps from incomplete data.
We have released an enhancement to our reporting interface to 'Exclude partial intervals"
When reporting over any time interval (monthly, weekly, daily, etc.) the most current is always partial since that interval has not been completed. This can be problematic for two common reports
- Comparative reports - when looking at % change the change from a completed month to an incomplete month is not relevant to drive decision making. A common report would be
- Month over Month comparison (last 3 months, exclude partial). This will show the previous 3 months while hiding the current month.
- When comparing values its important to think about equivalence between intervals and we believe this should help here
- Row Heatmaps and Heatmap views - partial intervals skew heatmaps by introducing values that shift the highlighted scale dramatically. Being able to exclude these values allows you to focus more clearly on signal and eliminate noise