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A furniture manufacturer wants to find a more environmentally friendly way to make its products. A data analyst helps solve this problem by gathering relevant data, analyzing it, and using it to draw conclusions. The analyst then shares their analysis with subject-matter experts from the manufacturing team, who validate the findings. Finally, a plan is put into action. This scenario describes data-driven decision making.

 

• True

 

• False

 

 

Select the best description of gut instinct.

 

• Choosing facts that complement your personal experiences
• An intuitive understanding of something with little or no explanation
• Manipulating data to match your intuition
• Using your innate ability to analyze results

 

 

In data analytics, what term describes a collection of elements that interact with one another to produce, manage, store, organize, analyze, and share data?

 

• The cloud environment
• A modeling system
• A data ecosystem
• A database

 

 

Which of the following options describes data analysis?

 

• The various elements that interact with one another in order to provide, manage, store, organize, analyze, and share data
• Creating new ways of modeling and understanding the unknown by using raw data
• The collection, transformation, and organization of data in order to draw conclusions, make predictions, and drive informed decision-making
• Using facts to guide business strategy

 

 

You read an interesting article about data analytics in a magazine and want to share some ideas from the article in the discussion forum. In your post, you include the author and a link to the original article. This would be an inappropriate use of the forum.

 

• True

 

• False

 

 

You have just finished analyzing data for a marketing project. Before moving forward, you share your results with members of the marketing team to see if they might have additional insights into the business problem. What practice does this support?

 

• Data analytics
• Data science
• Data-driven decision-making
• Data management