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Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails is divided into two parts. Part 1 covers the
fundamentals of reporting with Ruby. You??™ll find information about data access, data
analysis, and graphing, as well as presenting your graphs on the desktop and on the Web.
Part 2 gives specific, real-life examples of useful reports, ranging from monitoring eBay
auctions, to tracking sales performance with SugarCRM, to conducting Google AdWords
campaigns.
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Introducing Reporting
with Ruby
P A R T 1
Data Access Fundamentals
Businesses all over the globe produce data, and they are producing it at a faster pace
than ever before. Most of this data is stored in databases, but often it??™s publicly available
only in inconvenient forms, such as Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, web pages,
and comma-separated values (CSV) files.
As an unfortunate result, the data you need often isn??™t in a useful format.


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