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Hey it's Gerald here and I want to share with you my view on business analyst

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That tradition View

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Is someone with business Acumen and good with numbers

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However I do see that as an old

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Think off the bus

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Did the A's win a business data analyst only needed to be a spreadsheet Ninja

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How long gone

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Modern-day business and now this requires robust

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Data analysis skills and knowledge in statistics

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And they'd esaias methodologies like Predictive Analytics

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Or causal inference

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That familiarity enables you to support non-technical teams

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And bridged the gap

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With ID base

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Departments
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In other words

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You become an analytics translator

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Throughout the course I'll put you in several problems

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That are real life cases

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But before I get to it let me share a couple of my stories of problems

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That I faced and I use Analytics

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To drive it forward

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I will start with what everyone talks about

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When they have nothing to talk about

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The

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Weather

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The weather influences

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What we wear

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What we do

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However in seasonal Industries

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Weather also impacts

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Theirselves their revenue

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There's actually a lot of scientific research about it

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Savory taste and external Factor

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And companies

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Then to not like external factors as drivers

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Due to the lack of control

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Furthermore

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The weather tends to be seen

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As an excuse

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That's decent setup

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How do you poop

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That's weather

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Influences cell

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No I will be oversimplifying the hell out of this

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Since I have a full section on the technique

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Solve a problem like this

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But I hope the logic will be clear

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Assuming all else equal

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If

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Weather influenza sales

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Then if weather changes then sales also change

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Again

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All else

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Being equal

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For a problem like this

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We would use a technique

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From the economic tricks and causal inference part

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Specifically
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From Google causal impact

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Which will learn later

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Intercourse

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Event next project

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Is about predicting

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That's teacher

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There's a lot of belief

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In business

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Or commercial teams

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Also and

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Like don't get me wrong most believes all right

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Nike shoe is

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1 intertwining

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Those beliefs and two

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Putting numbers
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This is really

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Really difficult

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Making the change to Advanced analytics is difficult for several reasons

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There's the technological piece that people need to learn

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And then also seconds

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People really distressed innovation

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Especially

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When it goes against

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Their beliefs

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I've worked on several forecasting projects

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But there is one I left that the special to my heart

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The process before us

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What's simple

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Yet it's yielded massive errors

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The person doing it

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Was leaving

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And this is actually

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For making this success out of it

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Or at least we're making it easier

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We were not

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Replacing anyone more proving them wrong we're just

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Adding to it

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It really makes our life so much easier

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We tried to ask a product focused approach

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Interviewing stakeholders both Direct

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And indirect users

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Off the forecast

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But also domain

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Users

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Meaning people were knowledgeable about the topic

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We tried to convey

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Their expertise in the model

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Using the drivers

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That they mention

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Finally we try to update and keep stakeholders

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As much involved

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In the process as possible

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That they were on our side

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When it came to the

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Implementation

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Indians there were several

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Ferguson mobile
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The one that was introduced first

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What's Facebook profile

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One of the techniques in the course

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Which allows scalable

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And easy-to-implement for casting process

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I hope you enjoyed my short stories about my business analyst projects

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I worked

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And two makes video have fun