Weekly challenge 1

What tactics can a data analyst use to effectively blend gut instinct with facts? Select all that apply.

- Apply their unique past experiences to their current work, while keeping in mind the story the data is telling. - Use their knowledge of how their company works to better understand a business need.

Question 8 You read an interesting article in a magazine and want to share it in the discussion forum. What should you do when posting? Select all that apply.

- Check your post for typos or grammatical errors - Make sure the article is relevant to data analytics

Question 6 What do subject-matter experts do to support data-driven decision-making? Select all that apply.

- Review the results of data analysis and identify any inconsistencies - Offer insights into the business problem - Validate the choices made as a result of the data insights

If you are using data-driven decision-making, what action steps would you take? Select all that apply.

- Sharing your results with subject matter experts - Gathering and analyzing data - Drawing conclusions from your analysis - Surveying customers about results, conclusions, and recommendations

Question 1 The objective of data analysis is to draw conclusions, make predictions, and drive informed decision-making. In order to do this, a data analyst must do which of the following with data? Select all that apply.

- Transform it - Collect it - Organize it

The collection, transformation, and organization of data in order to draw conclusions, make predictions, and drive informed decision-making describes what?

Data analysis? Data science?

Question 7 Fill in the blank: _________ is the act of consulting with subject-matter experts about the results of your data analysis.

Data analytics

A data analyst at Billings Upholstery is trying to find more environmentally friendly way to produce furniture. The data analyst gathers relevant data, analyzes it, and uses it to draw conclusions. Then they share this analysis with subject-matter experts in manufacturing. Once the subject-matter experts have reviewed the analysis, a plan is put into action. What process does this scenario describe?

Data science Data-driven decision-making Identification of trends Customer service

A music streaming service is looking to increase user engagement on their platform. The CEO decides to leverage the company's user data and tasks the data analysts with uncovering unknown trends and characteristics of the companies user base. This strategy is known as what?

Data-driven decision-making

Fill in the blank: _________ is the act of consulting with subject-matter experts about the results of your data analysis.

Data-driven decision-making

Question 2 Fill in the blank: A collection of elements that interact with one another to produce, manage, store, organize, analyze, and share data is known as a data ______ .

Ecosystem

Data analysis is the various elements that interact with one another in order to provide, manage, store, organize, analyze, and share data.

False

In data analytics, a model is a group of elements that interact with one another.

False

You read an interesting article about data analytics in a magazine and want to share some ideas from the article in the discussion forum. In your post, you include the author and a link to the original article. This would be an inappropriate use of the forum.

False

You have recently subscribed to an online data analytics magazine. You really enjoyed an article and want to share it in the discussion forum. Which of the following would be appropriate in a post? Select all that apply.

Giving credit to the original author. Checking your post for typos or grammatical errors. Including your own thoughts about the article.? Including an advertisement for how to subscribe to the data analytics magazine.?

What is the purpose of data analysis? Select all that apply

To make predictions To drive informed decision-making To draw conclusions To create models of data

A furniture manufacturer wants to find a more environmentally friendly way to make its products. A data analyst helps solve this problem by gathering relevant data, analyzing it, and using it to draw conclusions. The analyst then shares their analysis with subject-matter experts from the manufacturing team, who validate the findings. Finally, a plan is put into action. This scenario describes data-driven decision making.

True

Finding answers to existing questions by creating insights from data sources is the primary goal of a data analyst.

True

Question 4 Gut instinct is an intuitive understanding of something with little or no explanation.

True

Question 5 A furniture manufacturer wants to find a more environmentally friendly way to make its products. A data analyst helps solve this problem by gathering relevant data, analyzing it, and using it to draw conclusions. The analyst then shares their analysis with subject-matter experts from the manufacturing team, who validate the findings. Finally, a plan is put into action. This scenario describes data-driven decision making.

True

Fill in the blank: The primary goal of a data _____ is to find answers to existing questions by creating insights from data sources.

analyst

Fill in the blank: Hardware, software, and the cloud all interact with each other to store and organize data in a _____.

data ecosystem

Data analysts act as detectives to uncover clues within the data. Like a detective, a data analyst may use their _______ to solve business problems.

gut instinct

Fill in the blank: The primary goal of a data _____ is to create new questions using data, instead of analyzing data to find answers to existing questions.

scientist

Question 3 Fill in the blank: The primary goal of a data _____ is to create new questions using data, instead of analyzing data to find answers to existing questions.

scientist

Question 6 You have just received the results of your latest analysis about the effectiveness of your firm's recent marketing campaign. However, because you want to follow data-driven decision-making you share your results with colleagues from the marketing department for their validation. In this role, these colleague's are acting as what?

subject-matter experts

Fill in the blank: When posting in a discussion forum, you should always check your post for _______ and grammatical errors

typos