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Discovering if you are an analyst
From the course: Learning Data Analytics: 1 Foundations
Discovering if you are an analyst
- [Instructor] Do you have a fitness tracker or a calorie counter of some sort? If you said yes, then you're already gathering data. Do you walk more when you notice your steps are low? Do you eat more or less based on what you did earlier in the day or yesterday? Are you using your history to determine what you should do next? Do you set a target on your calories and do you monitor your calories and make adjustments to stay within your goals for the day? Then you're already using data for decision-making, which means you're already analyzing data. This is just a practical example of how we all capture and analyze data, but data analysts take these skills and go even further. For years, I suggested that there are far more people that are working as data analysts than we might believe based on their job titles. We did a small local study where we asked people to identify if they were data workers, and then we asked them things like their job titles. We asked people to self-identify if…
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