Data Questions Flashcards
Question 6
What method involves asking numerous questions in order to get to the root cause of a problem?
The five whys
An airport wants to make its luggage-handling process faster and simpler for travelers. A data analyst examines and evaluates how the process works currently in order to achieve the goal of a more efficient process. What methodology do they use?
Gap Analysis
What is data strategy?
An analytical skill involves managing the people, processes, and tools used in data analysis
A data analyst works for an appliance manufacturer. Last year, the company’s profits were down. Lower profits can be a result of fewer people buying appliances, higher costs to make appliances, or a combination of both. The analyst recognizes that those are big issues to solve, so they break down the problems into smaller pieces to analyze them in an orderly way. Which analytical skill are they using?
Technical Mindset
Adding descriptive headers to columns of data in a spreadsheet is an example of which analytical skill?
Understanding context
Curiosity is an analytical skill that involves which of the following?
Seeking out new challenges and experiences
Using your gut instinct
Working with facts in an orderly manner
Collaborating to solve a problem
Seeking out new challenges and experiences
Fill in the blank: Curiosity, understanding context, and having a technical mindset are all examples of _____ used in data-driven decision-making.
business strategies
data models
thought processes
analytical skills
analytical skills
Understanding context
The analytical skill that has to do with how you group things into categories
Analytical skills
The qualities and characteristics associated with solving problems using facts
A technical mindset
The analytical skill that involves breaking processes down into smaller steps and working with them in an orderly, logical way
Data design
The analytical skill that involves how you organize information
Which aspect of analytical thinking involves being able to identify a relationship between two or more pieces of data?
Data design
Correlation
Visualization
Context
Correlation
What practice involves identifying, defining, and solving a problem by using data in an organized, step-by-step manner?
Visualization
Analytical thinking
Data design
Context
Analytical thinking
Fill in the blank: In data analytics, the data ecosystem refers to the various elements that interact with one another to produce, manage, store, _____, analyze, and share data.
1 / 1 point
merge
locate
ingest
organize
Organize
Question 3
Which of the following terms refers to the collection, transformation, and organization of data in order to draw conclusions, make predictions, and drive informed decision-making?
1 / 1 point
Data life cycle
Data analysis
Data insight
Data elements
Data analysis
