Developing your thinking skills – why change your environment?
Understanding the basic principles of better thinking skills and what a difference your environment can make to the quality of your thinking.
Tag: analysis
June 1, 2023
How are Softer Skills still relevant for Data Leaders? Part 5: Analytics
Exploring how softer skills are still relevant for Data Leaders, even at the Analytics stage of work. How can such people skills help them?
Are you delivering just Analytics or the Actionable Insight needed?
What is insight and how is it different from just the results of your analysis? Tony Boobier muses on the need for actionable insights today.
Learning from “The Book of Why” about Casual Science
Book review of Judea Pearl’s masterpiece: “The Book of Why”. An introduction to Causal Science. Why it matters for data scientists & analysts
How to run a one day Analytics Hackathon that works for your analysts
How to run a successful Analytics Hackathon in one day that works for analysts not just data scientists. Learning from this one within Gousto
Data Comics meet cricket data in the irrepressible “Data to Stories”
Want to know how to create engaging Data Comics? Love cricket? Then “Data to Stories” is the book for you. Here’s what analysts can learn.
Thinking with Data helps you turn information into insights
Book review of “Thinking with Data”. Uncovering how a short book really can help you develop the thinking skills needed to generate insights.
Your Data Storytelling needs less data and more stories (part 1 of 2)
Why you need to focus on storytelling and not just good data visualisations to tell compelling data stories. A challenge from Martin Squires.
How classifying & fixing dirty data can help even those using spreadsheets
How classifying & fixing your dirty data can help all teams, including those just using spreadsheets. A book from Susan Walsh to help you.
Don’t Look Up, how it’s a lesson in data storytelling
How watching the film “Don’t look up” inspired analyst Tristan Mobbs to spot these lessons for analysts in the art of data storytelling.
See history with fresh eyes by reading the Timeline of World History
A review of the engaging Timeline of World History from Useful Charts. Exploring what to expect and the lessons it has for data visualisers.
3 all too common mistakes analysts make when delivering their work
Sharing 3 mistakes that I often see analysts make when delivering their work. During the stages of sign-off, visual communication & solution.