Looker 6.24 introduced conditional alerting for dashboard content. The new feature fills a much-need gap beyond the standard scope of “scheduled looks”, but at first glance appears limited to static threshold alerting. Here we demonstrate how one can leverage the feature’s underlying flexibility to create advanced alerts with self-adaptive thresholds. …

Case Study: Cookie Monster’s Monster Cookies — Purpose We’ll implement an end-to-end system that tracks variable costs for different goods sold at a transaction level. The results give a detailed view of variable costs to help with strategic decision making for departments like procurement, supply chain, and inventory management. The files for this case-study can be found here…

Self-guided Quarterly Training for Linear Programming — Data analytics mostly falls in the descriptive realm, with a little spilling into the predictive space, and barely any reaching the prescriptive state. Mathematical optimization presents a powerful method to transform descriptive and predictive inputs into prescriptive decisions. …

A 5 minute, formula-free refresher on your favorite undervalued tools for data analysis! Choosing the right tool for the job Here are the four main ways to measure correlation, depending on what types of variables you have. This boils down to just three main tests, so the trick is framing both your question and data in a…

At Ro, employees change lives by changing healthcare. Every employee touches an aspect of the member experience. Read our new Employee Spotlight series to find out why our employees choose Ro and what keeps them coming back every day. Alex Goldman is a Product Manager at Ro, where she works…

At Ro, employees change lives by changing healthcare. Every employee touches an aspect of the member experience. Read our new Employee Spotlight series to find out why our employees choose Ro and what keeps them coming back every day. Pacssu Park is the Head of Product Design at Ro, where…

Some estimates are that $250 billion of current U.S. healthcare spend could potentially be virtualized. Ro believes that telehealth will play an increasingly prominent role in the healthcare system as patients first check to see if they can receive care virtually, before navigating to in-person care if it’s most appropriate…

A couple months ago I joined Ro’s Data Team, which meant I would be onboarding to the company in a completely remote fashion. Despite being ecstatic for the new opportunity, I felt nervous about how a remote onboarding process might go. I was pleasantly surprised, however, by how smooth, productive…