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