How Can You Maintain Focus While Analyzing Data?
Put the data down. Talk to your stakeholders. Search for their NEED. Build an initial plan and share it. Write it down. Reflect.
How can you maintain focus while analyzing data? Put the data down. Talk to your stakeholders. Search for their NEED. Build an initial plan and share it. Write it down. Reflect. Use your favorite generative AI tool to poke holes in your thinking and logic. Listen to that feedback and adjust.
Then re-think it, re-write it, and share it again.
But also, don’t get stuck in analysis paralysis. Once you have a solid thesis, go. Build prototypes. Dig some more and share intermediate results. New insights will emerge as you go.
Then, re-ask stakeholders: Am I on the right track? What do you think?
Lather, rinse, and repeat until you have something special, buy-in from sponsors, and a sense of co-ownership of the results with your partners.
Data analytics is a team sport! 👬
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