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A technical mindset involves the ability to break things down into smaller steps or pieces and work with them in an orderly and logical way.

 

• True

 

• False

 

 

Identifying the motivation behind the collection of a dataset is an example of the analytical skill of understanding context.

 

• True

 

• False

 

 

A company is seeing a decline in organizational efficiency. They decide to hire an outside organization to help increase overall performance. The data analyst, working for the newly contracted company, utilizes five analytical skills: curiosity, understanding context, having a technical mindset, data design, and data strategy to deliver the project goals. Once the project goals are met, the analyst informs the decision makers of their findings and the project is completed. What strategy did the data analyst use to complete this project?

 

• Gut instinct
• Gap analysis
• Data-driven decision-making
• The five whys

 

 

In data analysis, one often examines and evaluates how a process currently works in order to get it to where they want it to be in the future. This is known as what?

 

• Building a data visualization
• Gap analysis
• Determining the stakeholders
• Asking the five whys

 

 

The five whys is a technique that involves asking, “Why?” five times in order to achieve what goal?

 

• Identify the root cause of a problem
• Visualize how a process should look in the future
• Put a plan into action
• Use facts to guide business strategy

 

 

A grocery store owner notices that they sell more orange juice during the winter season, when people are more likely to get sick. After observing this for a couple of years, they decide to stock more orange juice during the winter. The store owner is using which quality of analytical thinking?

 

• detail-oriented thinking
• correlation
• problem-orientation
• visualization