Week 2

What method involves examining and evaluating how a process works currently in order to get it where you want it to be in the future?

Gap analysis

The analytical skill that involves breaking processes down into smaller steps and working with them in an orderly, logical way

A technical mindset

The qualities and characteristics associated with solving problems using facts

Analytical skills

What are the qualities and characteristics that enable a data analyst to solve problems?

Analytical skills

Having a technical mindset is an analytical skill involving what?

Breaking things down into smaller steps or pieces

Analytical skills that involve how you organize information

Data design

The analytical skill that involves managing the processes and tools used in data analysis

Data strategy

Which analytical skill involves managing the people, processes, and tools used in data analysis?

Data strategy

When executing a plan, a data analyst always double-checks their work, reads emails twice before sending them, and makes sure instructions are clear and correct the first time. They save their company time, money, and effort by paying attention to the specifics. This is an example of what?

Detail-oriented thinking

Curiosity is an analytical skill that involves which of the following?

Seeking out new challenges and experiences

Data analysts ask, "Why?" five times in order to get to the root cause of a problem.

True

Data-driven decision-making involves the five analytical skills: curiosity, understanding context, having a technical mindset, data design, and data strategy. Each plays a role in data-driven decision-making.

True

Adding descriptive headers to columns of data in a spreadsheet is an example of which analytical skill?

Understanding context

The analytical skill that has to do with how you group things into categories

Understanding context

Being able to identify a relationship between two or more pieces of data describes _____.

correlation