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Metric Intelligence Guide

Questions, Benchmarks & Actionable Advice for Every DataTurk.ai Metric

Prepared from the perspective of a CPA and Business Improvement Consultant with 15 years of experience serving home service businesses.

The metricing pipeline always runs in two sequential phases for numerical metrics:

Calculate — compute and persist metric values, tier by tier
Hint — enrich existing metrics with statistical context (deltas, descriptive stats, rankings, predictions), tier by tier

Hinting never interleaves with calculation. All tiers finish calculating before hinting begins.

	English: a User manages many Listings, and a Listing is managed by many Users. The association is handled by ListingManager via listing_id and manager_id as foreign keys.

	In the examples, below notice how one can create willy-nilly method names for the association as long as one defines how to get from one side of the association to the other. Another take away: the info for class_name and foreign_key and source are handled as literal strings for the purposes of the method constructing its SQL behind the scenes; it's only where Rails cannot infer the naming that one has to help out a bit

	class ListingManager < ActiveRecord::Base
	belongs_to :listing
	belongs_to :manager, class_name:"User"
	belongs_to :cato, class_name:"User", foreign_key: "manager_id"

	end