In our last post, we argued that adding some basic user research skills to your data team’s toolbox can have a big impact on the usability of the data
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Your team invested a lot of effort into building self-service data tools, but your stakeholders aren’t using it as much as you hoped, or in the ways that you hoped.
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Data teams aim to help the people in their organization make better decisions. Many data teams aren’t doing this as well as they could and are missing out on a
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In part 2 of this series, we learned that every new initiative a team undertakes should be accompanied by an expectation on how the initiative will perform. For example,
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As an analytics leader, my job is to ensure that my organization makes the best data-driven decisions possible. One effective mechanism that I employ — and other analytics leaders can too — is the business review program. This program is a rigorous and systematic review of the most important Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) across the company, with involvement by senior leadership in an ongoing and iterative fashion, punctuated by a regularly occurring cross-functional meeting. …
If you’re lucky, you know what it will take to get your next promotion. Maybe you need to work on communicating your analyses at the C-level instead of primarily to
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A Culture of Partnership
During my time leading an analytics and data science team, I spent a lot of time thinking about how an ideal analytics team should
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Imagine you hit a roadblock while trying to tackle a complex piece of analysis, using a python function or designing your first data organization. What do you do? Of course
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