From the course: Learning Data Analytics Part 2: Extending and Applying Core Knowledge

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Documenting data procedures

Documenting data procedures

From the course: Learning Data Analytics Part 2: Extending and Applying Core Knowledge

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Documenting data procedures

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- [Instructor] Have you ever been left with no step-by-step or real instruction on how to work with a file? There are several reasons why a process is passed to others. Maybe it's because they've moved up or even moved on. Either way, sometimes we've been left to diagnose and understand what the original owner did with the file to query it or report on it to get to their end states. The other most common scenario is that the process has worked for so long that either the person doesn't remember or again they're not available and sometimes you're that person. My recommendation is don't be the person who leaves a process without being documented. Again, it may very well be you who returns to it years later. And again, we don't fix what isn't broken. So when we do have to fix it, we don't want to re-remember our own work. Let me introduce you to the steps recorder. This is built into Windows. I'll go to my Windows menu. I'll type steps. I'll go to the Steps Recorder. Now, we'll choose to…

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