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Home > Support > Key Resources & Bookings > Analytics

Analytics

Getting Started

The Basics from Ex Libris

  • Intro video
  • From the Knowledge Center
  • Out of the Box Reports
  • In Presentations and Documents
  • Roadmap

Analytics Basics from PALS

  • Primo VE
  • The Reports Work Group Recordings from May 2020 (Acquisitions, Circulation, Resource Sharing and Resources & Collections)
  • Sharing Reports

PALS Training from fall 2019

  • 1 – Laying the Ground Work
  • 2 – Where in the world is my data?
  • 3 – Getting Started, the ABCs
  • 4 – MacGyvering the Box
  • Cheat Sheet

Intermediate

  • IPEDS
  • OAS training from November 2020 and from November 2022
  • Covid and our Library Stats from April 2021
  • 2021 Master Classes from Ex Libris (Filters and Functions!)
  • 2020 Master Classes from Ex Libris
  • Note that you will only get 2 million cells with the Formatted > Excel export format. Choose Data > CSV to get up to 10 million rows. Read more here. If you want to be sure you don’t miss any data, display the number of rows on your report.
  • Add Primo links to an analytics report
  • Combining Information from multiple sources/reports

Alma Analytics Data Visualization

  • Articles from Ex Libris
  • Videos from Ex Libris (If you want a good review: Analytics Data Visualization in Alma and Primo from 8/10/21)

From Oracle

  • Get Started with Visualizations in Oracle Analytics
  • More detailed documentation

Analytics Advanced Techniques

  • SQL Filter Examples
  • Regular Expression Examples
  • How to concatenate two or more fields in an Alma Analytics report
  • How to conditionally change the text format in an Alma Analytics report
  • How to make the report prompt date begin by default three months ago using SQL
  • How to filter a report by current and previous academic years

For MnPALS members, if you are trying to do something specific with analytics and cannot get it to work, put in a ticket.

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Mankato, MN 56001
Phone: 507.389.2000
Toll Free: 1.877.466.5465

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