Week 2 Flashcards
5 Analytics Skills
- Curiosity
- Understanding Context
- Having a Technical Mindset
- Data Design
- Data Strategy
Analytical Skill: Context
Context is the condition in which something exists or happens. How you group things into categories
Analytical Skill: Technical Mindset
A technical mindset involves the ability to break things down into smaller steps or pieces and work with them in an orderly and logical way.
Analytical Skill: Data Design
Data design is how you organize information.
Analytical Skill: Data Strategy
Data strategy is the management of the people, processes, and tools used in data analysis.
Analytical Thinking
Analytical thinking involves identifying and defining a problem and then solving it by using data in an organized, step-by-step manner.
5 Aspects to Analytical Thinking
- Visualization
- Strategy
- Problem-orientation
- Correlation
- Big-picture and detail-oriented thinking
Key Aspect of Analytical Thinking:
Visualization
Visualization is the graphical representation of information.
Key Aspect of Analytical Thinking:
Strategy
Strategizing helps data analysts see what they want to achieve with the data and how they can get there.
Key Aspect of Analytical Thinking:
Problem-orientation
The ability to identify, describe, and solve problems.
Key Aspect of Analytical Thinking:
Correlation
A correlation is like a relationship
Key Aspect of Analytical Thinking:
Big-picture thinking
Big-picture thinking means being able to see the big picture as well as the details.
Root Cause
Reason why a problem occurs
Gap analysis.
A method for examining and evaluating how a process works currently in order to get where you want to be in the future.
