From the course: Introduction to Career Skills in Data Analytics
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Discovering and interpreting existing data
From the course: Introduction to Career Skills in Data Analytics
Discovering and interpreting existing data
- Have you really thought about how much data is around a person? There's more than you may think. There's data like date of birth, names, race, and ethnicity. There's work data like employee ID, job title, hire date, or department. These data points are the items we think about when we work with data related to people, right. Some of this data is one value, like birthday. It's a value that it is, and it doesn't change. Then there are other items like job title, which might change when you get a new promotion at work. There's also real time data always occurring like heart rate, blood sugar, blood pressure, and even temperature. There's also geographical data like location. Imagine social data as well as what brands we follow, what brands we purchase, how often we have food delivered versus go out to eat. Data is always happening. The challenge we face as data analysts is there's a lot of potential data and not all of…
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