Summary: Building a repository of good report components helps you quickly assemble reports that work. Typical things to watch for are: Opening statements, summary sections, key takeaways, useful dimensions and metrics, and recommendations.
Summary: Taking a big problem, question, or analysis and breaking it into chunks frees you from the burden of trying to keep all the plates spinning at once. Compartmentalizing and identifying the dependencies at each step helps you reason out what needs to be done and looked into further. One of the first problems […]
Summary: Every great analyst knows the core numbers like the back of their hand. Build yourself a cheat sheet (whether it’s a list of stats or an interactive dashboard) and keep it up-to-date. The more you can internalize the numbers, the smarter you’ll look (and be). The #1 thing that differentiates a great analyst […]
