Transform data into insights
There are six phases in the data analysis process. Define the phases.
What is Ask, Prepare, Process, Analyze, Share, Act?
Define the commonality that Data analysts and detectives have.
What is both rely on evidence, follow a step-by-step process, and use facts to solve problems?
Analytical thinking involves _____ a problem, then solving it by using data in an organized, step-by-step manner.
What is identifying and defining?
True/False: Data analysts primarily use spreadsheets, query languages, and visualization tools to analyze data.
What is true?
The main goal of data analysis is...
What is "drawing conclusions, making predictions, and driving informed decision-making"?
There is a main difference between a data analyst and a data scientist.
What is "data scientists create new questions and models using raw data, while data analysts find answers to existing questions by interpreting data"?
An acquaintance tells you that they spend many hours each day learning new skills. To learn more, you ask them whether they are learning a sport, a musical instrument, or studying a data analytics course. Their answer helps you clarify the meaning of their statement.The scenario describes...
What is "Understanding context"?
There are six phases in the data life cycle. Define the phases.
What is Plan, Capture, Manage, Analyze, archive and destroy?
The phase of the data analysis process where the analysts clean and organize data to make it easier to work with.
What is the Process phase?
Define data ecosystem and its important to data analysts.
What is "data ecosystem is a network of elements like hardware, software, data, and people that interact to manage and analyze data. It’s important because analysts use it to find and analyze the right data to support smart decisions"?
A data professional asks, “Why?” five times. Define their desire for the exploration.
What is "the root cause of a problem"?
Define the relationship between the Ask phase in the data analysis process and the Plan phase of the data life cycle.
What is The Plan and Ask phases both involve planning and asking questions, but they tackle different subjects?
The Ask phase of the data analysis phase gives the stakeholder to focus on the big picture strategy that would meet or exceed the business goals. However, the Plan phase of the data life cycle is where the team can focus on the fundamentals of the projects, from the type of data the data analyst needs access to, what the type of tools and what data you would need.
The main issue the fictional company Geo-Flow, Inc. wanted to solve using data analysis.
What is "to see why their employee participation in the company’s retirement contribution program was lower than expected and whether they should develop educational training to increase participation"?
Define where the cloud fit in the data ecosystem.
What is a virtual place where data is stored online, allowing analysts to access data over the internet instead of from local hard drives?
The type of data visualization might an analyst create in order to communicate data insights to others.
What is charts, graphs or maps?
Describe the role of a Structured Query Language (SQL) and how it helps data analysts communicate with databases.
What is the most widely used language because it’s compatible with all kinds of databases? With SQL, data analysts can access the data they need by making a query. The language allows data analysts to ask the system to do actions like insert, delete, select or update data.
Define the importance of the Iteration in the data analysis process, and what happens if steps are skipped.
What is the iteration phase catch issues like bad data or unclear questions by revisiting earlier steps? Skipping steps can lead to missed insights or wrong conclusions.
Define the difference between the SAS model from Google data analysis process.
What is the SAS model includes additional steps like Explore, Model, and Evaluate, emphasizing an iterative approach with continuous evaluation, while the Google model focuses on a six-step linear process?
When an owner of a company is looking to refine processes on a large-scale to get to the desired outcome of “doing more with less resource”, The method they are practicing is...
What is gap analysis?
Define some of the benefits between data visualization tools like Tableau and Looker.
What is using Tableau is give the user a space to create visuals from their data result to help the audience, specifically non-technical users, understand and process complex data information? As for Looker, the user can create visuals using a query and give stakeholders a complete picture of their work by showing the audience visualization data deriving from the collected data.