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What is Slicer Dicer? correct answer: SlicerDicer is Epic's primary self-service reporting tool. Using SlicerDicer, your report consumers are empowered to investigate data, confirm and disprove their hunches, and generate sophisticated visualizations without waiting on busy business intelligence developers to write or modify reports for them What can you find in the SlicerDicer Tutorial? Can it be customized. correct answer: There is a tutorial within the application that is the primary resource for new users learning how to navigate SlicerDicer. When new features are available in SlicerDicer, the tutorial will notify users and remember which demos they have viewed, and which they haven't yet walked through. The tutorial can be customized by each organization if needed. What is SlicerDicer? correct answer: SlicerDicer is a self-service reporting tool Users may automatically have to go through the tutorial the first time they take it - How can you get to the tutorial if this isn't the first time? correct answer: If the tutorial does not open automatically, first select any data model. Then click the Help icon in the upper right. Clicking the Help icon opens the tutorial Each of SlicerDicer's data models is designed for certain end users. SlicerDicer respects user security in several ways: List three ways. correct answer: 1. Users will only be able to use data models appropriate for their user type. 2. When a user builds and slices populations, all of the data retrieved is implicitly filtered by Service Area security. 3. Most users will not be able to view data about individual members of a population. T or F - SlicerDicer is for large data sets correct answer: True! SlicerDicer retrieves its data from the ______________. This means it can filter and display large data sets without affecting your production database, Chronicles. With the ability to modify your date range and aggregate over weeks, months, or even years, SlicerDicer can be the primary resource for discerning long-term trends across your organization. correct answer: Caboodle database. T or F - SlicerDicer is for small data sets - describe why. correct answer: True also! SlicerDicer can also be a meaningful tool for following up on specific, small sets of records. After a user has narrowed down their population to the records they need, data can be viewed at the line level using table view, or exported to Reporting Workbench where the population can be acted on directly. Describe how SlicerDicer is for good visualizing data correct answer: In addition to common bar and line graphs, SlicerDicer includes geographic visualizations which allow plotting results on a regional map. For population health and risk factor analysis, this can be a more intuitive way to spot trends than with a list of ZIP Codes or addresses Why isn't SlicerDicer good for today's data? correct answer: The process that moves data from your live production database into Caboodle is not instantaneous. This delay means that SlicerDicer does not k