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Analytical skills, Questions asked by data analysts - Coggle Diagram
Analytical skills
Attributes of a data analyst
1. Curiousity
Curiosity is a skill that drives analysts to discover just how much information they can coax out of the data in expected or unexpected ways.
2. Context
Context is crucial for any kind of meaningful data analysis. By contextualizing data, you start to understand why the data shows what it does
3.Technical mindset
means
approaching problems in a systematic and logical manner.
4. Data design
The skill of data design is an extension of your technical mindset. It deals with how information is organized
5. Data Stragety
Data strategy is the management of the people, processes, and tools used in data analysis.
Think about a data strategy as a kind of resource allocation—the tools, time, and effort that you put into a project w
This starts with the way you clean, organize, and prepare your data
Analysts determine context by looking for patterns or anomalies in a dataset.
5 steps to analytical thinking
Visualisation
Strategy
Problem Orientation
Correlation
Big picture and detail oriented thinking
Like a jigsaw puzzle. Not getting stuck in one small piece and looking at the pi ture as a whole.
If you get stuck focusing only on one piece you won't be able to see past that
Correlation does not equal causation
Data analysts use a problem oriented approach to identify, describe and solve problems
It's about keeping the problem top of the mind throughout the process
Having a stragetic mindset is key to staying focused and on track .
Strategizing is also important for data analysts to see what they want to achieve and how to get there.
Stragety also helps with the quality and usefulness of the data
Visualisation is important because visuals help data analysts understand and explain data more effectively
Questions asked by data analysts
What is the root cause of the problem?
Ask why 5 times!
Where are the gaps in our process
Gap Analysis:
Understand where you are now vs where you want to be
What did we not consider before?