The Final Deliverable

Question 1

According to the reading, what is the ultimate purpose of analytics?

Answer 1

To efficiently store big data with minimum storage requirements.

To communicate findings to stakeholders to formulate policy or strategy.*

To facilitate meetings between sales and marketing.

To evangelize data science.

Question 2

The reading mentions a common role of a data scientist is to use analytics insights to build a narrative to communicate findings to stakeholders.

Answer 2

TRUE

Question 3

The Untied States Economic Forecast is a publication by McKinsey University Press.

Answer 3

FALSE

Question 4

The report discussed in the reading successfully did the job of:

Answer 4

Convincing the leadership team to act on an initiative.

Calculating projections for the economy.

Using data and analytics to generate the likely economic scenarios.*

Summarizing pages and pages of research.

Question 5

According to the reading, in order to produce a compelling narrative, initial planning and conceptualizing of the final deliverable is of extreme importance.

Answer 5

TRUE