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What "Customer" Actually Means
Most people assume the hardest part of data work is the technical side. But experienced analysts will tell you that it’s not.
What breaks a project is starting with the wrong definition of the thing you are trying to measure.
Take The Wor...
Average And Sum Make All The Money
A store owner wants to know three things.
How much came in yesterday? How much went out? How much is left?
You do not need a big AI model for that. You just need to add and subtract.
That is how most real business questions start. They s...
Stop Building Standard Portfolio Projects
Steve Jobs once said, ‘Start with the customer experience and work back to the technology.’
That is how smart businesses think. It is also how the best portfolio projects work.
A strong portfolio project should not start with, ‘I want to...
The Bar Chart Mistake Most Analysts Make
One of the most common mistakes analysts make is choosing a bar chart based on how it looks.
A grouped bar chart looks detailed. A stacked bar chart looks compact. A 100% stacked bar chart looks neat and balanced. So people often choose th...
The Problem With Treemaps
Humans are good at comparing length when objects are lined up. That is why bar charts work so well.
If one bar is longer than another, we can usually spot the difference fast.
Treemaps do not work that way. They use area.
That means the...
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