Cori Wilhelm: Alright. Thank you, everyone for joining us. For the next installment of the spotlight on suny libraries. We're joined today by Mary huddle. Mary is the subject librarian for history and several areas. Studies at Binghamton University, and her research interests include collection, analysis, library assessment and data visualization
Cori Wilhelm: and mapping tools in the context of historical study that all sounds really interesting to Mary. But today she's here to discuss all my analytics and share some of her tips. And we are recording this, and I'll send out the link and her slides afterward. And we just asked if you have a question, feel free to throw it in the chat, and and we'll get to it when we can. So
Cori Wilhelm: with that you may take it away, Mary.
Mary Tuttle: Okay, great, and let me share my screen.
Mary Tuttle: Sure.
Cori Wilhelm: And we can see. Okay.
Mary Tuttle: perfect. Thank you.
Mary Tuttle: Okay, thank you. Everyone for coming. And thank you, Corey, for the introduction. So I'm Mary. I'm a subject librarian here at Bington University. I have an unhealthy obsession with analytics and data. So that's why I'm talking to you about analytics and widgets today.
Mary Tuttle: So let's jump in.
Mary Tuttle: Okay. So this project started because I had started opening Alma more frequently in my job. And I kept seeing the same boring grey landing page with these widgets. For scheduled job statuses which
Mary Tuttle: don't really mean much to me as a subject librarian. And this notifications widget, which had been welcome, welcoming us to Alma since we started? Alma in 2,017. Is it since been changed? But after a few years of looking at the same notification, it kind of got to a breaking point, and I said, I need to do something about this. So I looked into it. Cause I just I really just wanted to make them go away.
Mary Tuttle: Replacing them with something better would be even great.
Mary Tuttle: So I did a little digging and after many hours of toiling and tears and blood and sweat. Today. My Alma homepage looks like this. So you'll see it's a lot more colorful. It has information that actually matters to me as a subject librarian and overall. It's just a lot more interesting.
Mary Tuttle: So I'm gonna be walking you through the process of how to set up a widget like this in your own home. Page.
Mary Tuttle: But before I do that I want to talk a little bit about the significance of some of the state data, why add it to your homepage other than obviously making your home page more colorful and pretty? And maybe getting rid of some outdated or irrelevant widgets?
Mary Tuttle: So when you add these widgets to your homepage, you can really add as much information as you want, because they're really just reports that you're formatting in a certain with so that it fits within one of these boxes.
Mary Tuttle: you can so you can see as many visualizations, as many tables with as much detail as you want. And you're putting it somewhere where you're probably already going pretty frequently. And if you're not, you might actually start opening all that even more frequently. Just to look at your widgets, which is what it's been happening to me.
Mary Tuttle: It's putting this data like I said somewhere, you're already going it's also making it available more on demand than if you were to schedule a report.
Mary Tuttle: so you're not waiting for a report to show up. You're not sifting through your inbox looking for a past report that's been scheduled
Mary Tuttle: or you're not digging through all of your analytics folders trying to find that one report which has the thing that you're looking for. So this
Mary Tuttle: adding widgets to your homepage makes the analytics data more accessible to you. But it also makes them more accessible to other users in your library who may may not use analytics much, or who don't use analytics at all, but still have a need to see this kind of data.
Mary Tuttle: so by creating these widgets, I've been able to create them for other colleagues in the library in different departments. So that I can take my analytics knowledge of knowing how to do this and how to set it up for them and apply it to their areas. So it's kind of a win-win, because they get the widgets that they've been wanting in the data that they need to make their jobs easier
Mary Tuttle: and more streamlined. But then I'm also learning about their data in their subjects. So it makes it a lot easier for me to find out what exactly reader services data looks like in analytics and what each different facet means rather than trying to figure it out myself from documentation and just trial and error in analytics.
Mary Tuttle: Another nice little benefit is this, open in a new window link that shows up in every widget. So when you click that it will it acts like a shortcut for the report, so you can click it, and it will open up this report in analytics, and then from there you can edit the report. You can export it
Mary Tuttle: and it just makes another easy way to access information rather than digging through analytics.
Mary Tuttle: So for subject librarians like me, or selectors or people in acquisitions. This funds Widget is a really cool one. I love it so so much. It has a graph at the top, you can see which shows me the progress of spending through each of my funds that I'm responsible for as a subject librarian. And then underneath that is a table so that I can see each transaction that's happened. In each of these funds.
Mary Tuttle: So if I open up my widget one day and I see that one of my funds has gone down by a significant amount. And I panic. Because I say, where did my money go? I can just scroll down, and then I'll see each transaction, and usually I'll say, Oh, that's right. I forgot. I committed this much money to go towards this Eva to this year.
Mary Tuttle: So it's a really easy way to keep track of your funds, which you should be doing as a subject librarian. But then, in even more detail by seeing each transaction as it happens.
Mary Tuttle: Another fun thing that I did with this is in the Po line title column. I added action links so I can click on the title, and it will bring me to that title in primo.
Mary Tuttle: So for these print books, I can just click on that and see, is it here in the library yet? Is it still on order? If it's here, is it still on the shelf, or someone already checked it out. If it's an ebook I can click through and read the ebook right there. It just makes everything really simple and into together in one place
Mary Tuttle: for reader services. These were some of the widgets that I created for them.
Mary Tuttle: There are the on top. I have a bar graph for the circulation over the past week. So I can see where dips happen. What days are more popular or more busy than others? When we're getting more traffic
Mary Tuttle: right now. There's only 5 bars because we're on spring break, so we were closed Saturday and Sunday. So when that happens, Alma just doesn't include them at all. Instead of showing like little zeros. So that's why you're only seeing 5 out of the 7 bars right now.
Mary Tuttle: and then there's also a pie graph. So you can compare loans by each library location over the past week. And you can customize these as much as you want. If you'd rather see the entire month, if you'd rather see just one library location you can even set a dropdown filter if you wanna look at location by location rather than altogether in one graph.
Mary Tuttle: So these are great for people in reader services, or just people like me who like seeing this kind of thing and seeing how busy the library's been over the past week.
Mary Tuttle: Oops. Okay. this is another fun one. This is a tree map that shows you the top 10 popular searches in primo for the past month.
Mary Tuttle: So this is a fun way to kind of see or gauge the interests of your users. See what they're searching in primo over and over and over again. Pubmed and web of science are almost always here for us. I've noticed over the past year or so. Sometimes you'll see how this changes over the course of the year.
Mary Tuttle: Around Halloween. We have a a class that focuses on like local history folklore. So we were seeing. Or I was seeing like Binghamton goes pop up a lot. Because students in that class were researching a lot.
Mary Tuttle: So it's a really fun way to see this kind of these kinds of trends in your in your campus population. This could also be useful for people at different service points throughout the library. Maybe they want to get a sense of what people are searching. Maybe if you're seeing things like web of science and pubmed show up all the time, you wanna direct them to the subject guide or to the databases page, so that they can see beyond just those 2 databases that get so much traffic. Other things that might be useful to them.
Mary Tuttle: Okay, so there are 2 main ways of adding analytics data to your on the homepage. The first is what I've been showing you, adding these individual widgets to your homepage. You can also use the data visualization tool to build a workbook and then set that workbook as your homepage. Today I'm just going to be going through steps to add widgets.
Mary Tuttle: But this presentation, these slides have, step by step, instructions for both methods. Because I gave a similar talk last year. So you'll be the beneficiary of that if you want to go through these methods yourself. On your own time as well. You can go through that in the slides.
Mary Tuttle: For these 2 methods there are some advantages of each. With the widgets. You can simultaneously show data from multiple subject areas. Because each widget is its own entity. So I had widgets from the funds expenditure from fulfillment from primo you can also have non analytics widgets so like that recent pages bar at the top.
Mary Tuttle: You can add a widget so that you can search in discovery and primo right from your on the homepage
Mary Tuttle: with the data visualization workbook option, you're actually setting your entire homepage as that workbook. So you can see there's no welcome with your name or the date. The whole homepage is just taken over by that workbook.
Mary Tuttle: But the workbook is a little more modern looking. The interface is more user friendly because it's a little bit more modern than analytics. And it gives you some more formatting and visualization options.
Mary Tuttle: You can have dynamic filters with each option. With the workbook you can have those filters apply to the entire page. So you can change all of the visualizations based on a filter that you choose. But with widgets those dynamic filters are going to be on the individual widgets. Even the individual visualizations or tables within a widget.
Mary Tuttle: So widgets are my preferred method of doing this. Just because I really like having that flexibility of different subject areas. And having especially that recent pages, part of the top I use constantly. So losing. That is a is too big of a loss for me. But I really enjoy the flexibility of the widgets.
Mary Tuttle: The data visualization workbook approach might be more advantageous for you. If you want to be able to use those diamet dynamic filters on the entire workbook. Rather than just individual, which is one at a time.
Mary Tuttle: Okay, so I'm gonna walk through, creating a report with these visualizations, and then turning it into a widget some of the reports or some of the widgets that I've created, I added the reports to the shared folders which are here. For there are few in Alma, and then the one for the popular searches, and Primo so feel free to go in there and copy those reports over to your own folders. If you want to set those up as widgets for yourself.
Mary Tuttle: But I'm gonna get out of here.
Mary Tuttle: We're gonna open up Alma.
Mary Tuttle: And I'm going to go into analytics.
Mary Tuttle: Zoom in because it's tiny.
Mary Tuttle: Okay? Oh, yeah.
Mary Tuttle: So I'm in my catalog. I'm gonna create a new analysis. So a new report.
Mary Tuttle: And I'm going to remake that circulation bar graph for the past week. So I'm gonna do that in fulfillment.
I think.
Mary Tuttle: And I'm just gonna add, in all these different measures, just to see what we get. So I'll do
Mary Tuttle: loans, not in-house loans, in-house returns, recalls, renewals lost.
Mary Tuttle: We'll just add it all and see what we get.
Mary Tuttle: Okay. And then I want to organize that by loan date.
Mary Tuttle: and so this field will just give me the actual date. So March fifth, 2024.
Mary Tuttle: I barely know what day it is when it's today. So I'd like to see what day of the week each date is also but there's no pre made column for that in analytics. So I'm just gonna add loan date again.
Mary Tuttle: I'm going to edit the formula. And I'm just going to use this day name expression expression and when I do this. This is, gonna give me the day of the week for each date.
Mary Tuttle: So I'm going to change the heading. So I remember that
Mary Tuttle: we'll say known thing and week.
Mary Tuttle: Okay.
Mary Tuttle: alright. So this is all I really need up here. I'm going to add a filter, though, because I need to set this so that it only shows me loans for the past week.
Mary Tuttle: So let me do loan date.
Mary Tuttle: And I'm gonna change this to SQL,
Mary Tuttle: and I'm gonna say, loan date is greater than or equal to current date. minus 7.
Mary Tuttle: So if you are particularly caffeinated today, you might realize that if I do greater than or equal to current date minus 7. That's actually gonna give me 8 days of data. And I do this because of the lag in analytics data to refresh. So if I did, is greater than current date, minus 7, or is greater than, or equal to current date, minus 6. Sorry I'm making this extra confusing
Mary Tuttle: But this technically will give me 8 days of data. But since analytics doesn't have today's data, it's only going to give me those 7?
Mary Tuttle: so that's why I do this statement. So it gives me a full 8 days. So I'm going to hit Ok.
Mary Tuttle: And I am happy with that. So let me go to results
Mary Tuttle: can wait.
Mary Tuttle: Okay, so this is the table that analytics gives me by default. It just gives me all of these measures with the loan date and my loan day of the week looks great, perfect. So I'm going to turn this into a graph
Mary Tuttle: and you do that by going down into this bottom left hand corner where it says views. And you'll see these this little bar graph with the plus, I'm gonna hit. So these are all the different views that you can add to your Alma report.
Mary Tuttle: You can do different types of visualizations like a tree map, a gauge, a funnel, a map.
Mary Tuttle: I'm going to add a bar graph.
Mary Tuttle: And I'm gonna do a stacked vertical graph so this is just a vertical bar graph where each bar can be divided into different colors to represent different types of data, different categories. So I'm gonna do stacked vertical.
Mary Tuttle: Okay? And this is the graph that only gives me by default. They just kinda throw things together and hope it's what you want. So you'll want to go down to this layout tab. And this is where you're gonna move things around. So it's showing you to the information that you want in this graph.
Mary Tuttle: So under bar graph measures. This just means measures are your quantifiable data. So these are numbers that can be added together. Like your loans and your renewals and your returns.
Mary Tuttle: So these are all automatically placed in here for the y-axis, and then on the right, under bars. This is your X axis, so you can see it put the long day of the week on the X axis, which is what we want, but then it put the loan date as the different colors. So actually.
Mary Tuttle: since these are really the same pieces of information, I want them both to be on the y axis. So now you can see Friday, March first, Monday, March fourth, Thursday, February 29. So these are going to go in order by whichever one of these columns is on top.
Mary Tuttle: So right now, long day of the week is on top. So it's just alphabetizing the x-axis by the day of the week, which is not very helpful. So you can just grab that and then drag it, and you'll see that little blue bar appear. That means that you're putting it somewhere where it can go.
Mary Tuttle: So if I drag that down there now, you can see it goes in date order, which is what we want. And you can see when students start leaving to go home for the break. Also, as we see the the downturn in in circulation.
Mary Tuttle: Okay, so this is pretty much what I want. But I want to see all of these different measures reflected in the total counts in these bars, so that they're different colors, right?
Mary Tuttle: So analytics has put that up here under graph prompts. A graph. Prompt is one of those dynamic filters. So if this was something you wanted to leave in here. You could. So right now it sets a loans, not in-house. You can change that to loans in-house
Mary Tuttle: and see how the numbers change as you change this filter.
Mary Tuttle: But for this purpose I want this to be reflected in the color of the bars.
Mary Tuttle: So I'm just gonna take measure labels and measure labels is just what it sounds like. It's the labels for all of your measures. So I'm going to take that
Mary Tuttle: the zoom is making this typical. Let's see, okay, I'm gonna take measure labels
Mary Tuttle: and then drag it here into very color by.
Mary Tuttle: So now you can see, these are the total counts of all circulation for each day, and it's broken up by the different measure label, the different type of circulation that's happening. And when you hover over them you can see the tool tip change so I can get actual counts. So 340 returns, 194 in house loans 243, not in house loans.
Mary Tuttle: If you wanted to see, maybe this bar graph, but for each of your locations. You could add in that library name.
Mary Tuttle: I don't remember where it is at fulfillment. Let's see.
Mary Tuttle: let's do.
Mary Tuttle: Let's do library name active. I can drag it in right from here to graph props. and you'll see it go to the top. So I can change this from Bartle to science
Mary Tuttle: to special collections.
Mary Tuttle: And if you ever drag something in here that you don't want anymore, like I just did. you can just grab it and then bring it to the bottom in excluded.
Mary Tuttle: And that will take it back out of your graph. Okay? So I'm happy with this graph. I'm gonna hit done
Mary Tuttle: when you hit done. That just saves your current configuration for the graph. It does not save the actual report, so make sure you're saving your report as you make these changes also?
Mary Tuttle: And also when you're setting up a new graph and you hit that done button, you'll be brought here. Don't panic. Your graph does exist, I promise. You just have to go down under views in this bottom left hand corner, and you'll see that now there's this graph bar. You just hit the right arrow
Mary Tuttle: and it will bring it into your view.
Mary Tuttle: And then you can rearrange this like I usually like having my graph at the top. So that's you know that easy or nice, colorful depiction of your data at a glance. And then I like having tables underneath, so I can scroll down and see more detail if I want to.
Mary Tuttle: I'm gonna get rid of this title bar because my widgets gonna have its own title, anyway, so I don't really need titles for anything else in the report.
Mary Tuttle: In this case, I'm sure there are other cases where you might want to have different titles for maybe your craft and a different title for your table.
Mary Tuttle: Okay. So now let's formulate this so that, or format it so that it fits as a widget.
Mary Tuttle: So for my graph, I'm going to hit this XYZ. The properties button
Mary Tuttle: and you're gonna want to set the canvas with, I found. I know this is funny. I found that 4, 97 is the magic number for me. It may depend on your setup, your browser, your screens that you're using but 4, 97 has been pretty pretty stable for me. As a width, and then for height. I'm gonna set it to 300.
Mary Tuttle: So when I apply this.
Mary Tuttle: you'll see it shrunk down the graph so that it's more narrow, which is what we want, so that it fits in that widget box nicely. But the whole thing is still wide. And that's because we're gonna have to format this table also.
Mary Tuttle: So for the table, you're actually going to go to the format container. Button this A with the brackets around it
Mary Tuttle: and under additional formatting options. You'll just set the width
Mary Tuttle: 497 again, my magic number, I usually leave the hype blank because analytics will just do that automatically.
Mary Tuttle: And with a table, you know, it wouldn't really squish down. Well, because analytics won't let you squish actual text.
Mary Tuttle: So it'll override whatever you put in there, anyway. let's hit. Okay. And now you see, the entire report has shrunken into that more narrow column.
Mary Tuttle: alright, and I have all these ugly titles on my graph that I want to get rid of. So I'm going to change those by opening up properties again.
Mary Tuttle: and this time over to titles and labels. There are a lot of different settings you can
Mary Tuttle: set up in the properties of the graph. So if you wanted to change the color of the background, or the border, or set up different colors for different bars. You could do that in here.
Mary Tuttle: But for this I'm just gonna change the titles and labels.
Mary Tuttle: So graph title, automatically, it uses the measure names as a graph title. I'm just gonna uncheck that and leave that blank because I don't really need a title for this.
Mary Tuttle: But I am gonna redo the access titles. So instead of having the super long list of my measures. Let's just change that to circulation. And then for horizontal axis, let's change that to one date.
Mary Tuttle: and we'll hit. Okay.
Mary Tuttle: much better, so much better.
Mary Tuttle: Alright. So now our graph is set up, our table is set up. For this one. I don't really need a graph, or I'm sorry I don't really need a table but I'll leave it in there so you can see how it looks.
Mary Tuttle: So I'm going to save my report.
Mary Tuttle: And I'm gonna say that
Mary Tuttle: in my folder.
Mary Tuttle: So I set up a separate folder that just has all of my widgets in there so that they're easy to go in and find, because some of these all have duplicate reports of, but not in the widget format, because they're scheduled, or because I just need to see them in a different level of detail. So I would definitely recommend having a separate folder for your widgets.
Mary Tuttle: So let's do
Mary Tuttle: sunny spotlight circ
Mary Tuttle: alright. So the reports all saved and ready to go. So now to set this up as a widget, we're just going to go back to Alma.
Mary Tuttle: and we're going to open up the object list
Mary Tuttle: and to set it up as an object list. I believe you need to be an analytics administrator or a general general system administrator. So if you don't have those roles, you won't be able to do this part. But it's really easy. So you should be able to sweet talk someone else in your organization to do it for you. If you can't do it yourself.
Mary Tuttle: But to set up your object. You're just gonna go up here to the top right? Let me see if I can see now a little bit.
Mary Tuttle: There we go. It'll be under actions, or, if you are not so zoomed in, it might just say, add on analytics, object. but depending on the product that you're using and where you set up your analytics. Report. It could be primo if you were doing it in primo. But since the one we just set up was an Alma. Obviously we'll do, Alma.
Mary Tuttle: And now you're just gonna set the details for where the report lives and what you wanted to call it. So, my folder. search.
Mary Tuttle: Here's my widgets folder.
Mary Tuttle: and then we'll just search. See me spotlight, so there's the report I just saved.
Mary Tuttle: and then this is not such a great display name for my widget. So let's call it
Mary Tuttle: circulation past week.
Mary Tuttle: sunny spotlight. and save.
Mary Tuttle: Okay. So now I've created my object. It exists. But you still have to set it up so that it knows what it's purposes and who who it lives for? So we're gonna choose who we want to share it with. You can share it with individual users. Or you can share it by a role. So if this is a widget that
Mary Tuttle: could be shared with multiple people in your library. Maybe everyone in reader services would benefit from it, or all of the subject librarians would benefit from it. You could add roles that apply to all of those people so that they have access to add this widget to their homepage.
Mary Tuttle: If it's something like my funds. widget. That only shows funds for my areas that I'm responsible for. That's something I would share with just me so that it's not
Mary Tuttle: like bulking up other people's widget lists with useless things for them.
Mary Tuttle: So for this one, I'm just going to add myself.
Mary Tuttle: let me say that. and then to add it as a widget.
Mary Tuttle: All you have to do is click this little. Add as a widget box.
Mary Tuttle: and you're good to go. Always make sure that the saved icon with the green check mark pops up before you leave the page to make sure that your object is all set up right.
Mary Tuttle: If you want to, you can even schedule this as a report also. So if you want it email to you, you just set up how often, what day, what time? And then how you want it sent to you like, what format? So you can do this all in the same object entry for this report.
Mary Tuttle: But our widget is ready to be set up. So I'm gonna go back to my Alma home, page.
Mary Tuttle: and you'll see. Oh, it's let me zoom out again.
Mary Tuttle: There we go. Okay, so to add widgets. It's super easy. You just click this green plus button at the top right.
Mary Tuttle: and you'll see a list. Pop up and you can open this up in your almost right now and see what's available to you. I think everyone has access to these top view. They're just here by default.
Mary Tuttle: and then you can scroll down and see other ones that have been added. So these are all ones that I've made.
Mary Tuttle: So you see here, circulation past week. So you spotlight. This is the one I just created. So to add it, I'll just click the checkbox.
Mary Tuttle: and you see it popped up already right here.
Mary Tuttle: and it's not working.
Mary Tuttle: Hold on. Let's refresh.
Mary Tuttle: I practice this about 4 times earlier today. So of course, it goes wrong now.
Mary Tuttle: that's not good.
Mary Tuttle: Sorry. Bear with me.
Cori Wilhelm: I think everyone in me.
Cori Wilhelm: And the audience has been there, and of course happens when you're on, you know, recording.
Cori Wilhelm: working with analytics, everyone's commiserating.
Cori Wilhelm: And Tim said, logging out and logging back in
Cori Wilhelm: does help. And Chris said the same thing as happens to him with analytics all the time. So, and Jones is
Cori Wilhelm: the same, and Kate says the same. Everybody has had
Cori Wilhelm: analytics not cooperate.
Mary Tuttle: Alright. Mosella was much friendlier. So we're in firebox now. Okay, so
Mary Tuttle: let me. Oh, no, here it is. It does work. Okay. So here is the graph. Here is the widget that we just created.
Mary Tuttle: And if you scroll down you can see that table that we added underneath the graph. If you click this open in a new window
Mary Tuttle: you'll see it opens it up in analytics like I said, and then here at the bottom, are all these different options, so I can click edit, and that'll bring me right into editing this widget.
Mary Tuttle: So if I wanted to change this. Maybe I want to see the past 2 weeks because spring break is
Mary Tuttle: messing up my data. I can make that change. So it's current date, minus 14. Save it.
Mary Tuttle: and then let me go back to my home page and refresh
Mary Tuttle: and wait there we go.
Mary Tuttle: So now you'll see, as soon as I made that change to the report and saved it. The object already, like automatically refresh with that data.
Mary Tuttle: And oh, I'm all thrown off now. If you wanna rearrange it, all you have to do is drag them around. It's really easy. If you want to get rid of them. You can click this arrow, and then this mysterious cut off box shows up and that will actually remove it. But if you're not as daring as I am with unlabeled clickable links. You can go back to this plus button in the top right
Mary Tuttle: and then just uncheck it. and it'll be removed from your view.
Mary Tuttle: So that was a quick and somewhat hopefully entertaining for you run through of how to add these widgets to your homepage and create those reports. I'm happy to answer any questions. If you want me to show you anything again, if you want me to show you how to set up the data visualization workbook. And there's time I'm happy to do that.
Mary Tuttle: But yeah. And if you do make widgets. I would love to hear about it. I love getting new ideas for new widgets that I can peddle on my colleagues, so please do reach out and let me know I'd love to hear about it.
Cori Wilhelm: Alright, and you're getting a lot of kudos in the chat. Does anyone have any questions at this point.
Cori Wilhelm: Is anyone else working with widgets in their own Alma instance?
Cori Wilhelm: Yvonne asks, Where did you learn the SQL,
Mary Tuttle: Google?
Mary Tuttle: No. There are some great like summary pages that I think you'll all has put up. That give you little tips and tricks like this is how you do a custom filter for the past year for the past 20 days. There are a few pages like that that I've either used or adapted. But otherwise it's just been a lot of Googling and saying, I know I can do this somehow. It must be out there somewhere. So stubbornness and Google.
Cori Wilhelm: and that works.
Mary Tuttle: Yes.
Cori Wilhelm: and Kate says she has a widget to track fund expenditures for my collection development areas. But I like the circulation ones, since. I just have that as a scheduled report right now.
Cori Wilhelm: So this could be. It sounds like useful for a lot of folks. They're really everyone's giving you thanks, and saying it was excellent in the chat.
Mary Tuttle: It's also really fun. Once you get started.
Cori Wilhelm: I'm addicted to widgets. Now, this is your kind of fun. Mary
Cori Wilhelm: probably listed folks in the audience.
Mary Tuttle: That's why I offer to make widgets for my colleagues, too, because they either don't find this fun, or they don't have the time to invest into learning analytics to such an extent that they could make their own widgets. So it really is like a win-win. I get to have fun. And I get to learn about different areas, data and analytics. And then they get free widgets.
Cori Wilhelm: Alright. And Chris, husband asked, if you add a widget? Would someone need analytics permissions to see the report in their Widget selection? Or can you just add them as an internal user in the objects.
Mary Tuttle: You would just add them as an internal user, or you could add them by role. But as long as they have access to the widget itself. They'll have access to the information in the widget. I don't know. Like if they click the open in a new window link. I don't know if they'll be able to view it in analytics, if they don't have analytics, permissions. If that makes sense
Cori Wilhelm: alright any more questions for Mary
Cori Wilhelm: for each other.
Cori Wilhelm: Alright. We want to thank you so much, Mary, for sharing. This is amazing work. And thanks everyone for coming. I will.