Ad hoc analysis

How it is used

A large part of many analysts' week. You get, handle or prioritise ad hoc requests, and too many of them can block bigger projects. 'Ad hoc' is Latin for 'for this purpose' and is also written 'ad-hoc' before a noun.

Example sentences

1. Sorry for the delay; I had three urgent ad hoc analysis requests this week.

2. If this ad hoc analysis keeps coming up, we should turn it into a dashboard.

Common collocations

• ad hoc request
• ad hoc query
• handle ad hoc requests
• one-off analysis

Related terms

• stakeholderAny person or group that is affected by a project or has a say in it, such as customers, managers, other teams, the legal team or support.
• dashboardA screen that shows the most important metrics and charts about a system in one place, so engineers can see its health at a glance.
• queryA request sent to a database to read or change data, usually written in SQL. As a verb, to query means to ask a database for data.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• ad hoc analysis · Data Science & Analytics

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