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Embrace your data analyst skills

Thinking about analytical

thinking

Thinking about outcomes

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1. Curiosity is an analytical skill that involves which of the following? 1 point

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Collaborating to solve a problem
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with facts Objectives
in an orderly manner
definitions
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Seeking out new challenges and experiences

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2. Identifying the motivation behind the collection of a dataset is an example of the analytical skill of understanding You will have 40 minutes to finish
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context.

True Receive grade Your grade

False To Pass 80‎%‎or higher

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3. A data analyst works for an appliance manufacturer. Last year, the company’s profits were down. Lower profits 1 point
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can be a result of fewer people buying appliances, higher costs to make appliances, or a combination of both. The
analyst recognizes that those are big issues to solve, so they break down the problems into smaller pieces to
analyze them in an orderly way. Which analytical skill is the data analyst using?

Understanding context

Data strategy

Curiosity

A technical mindset

4. Data design is how you organize information; data strategy is the management of the people, processes, and tools 1 point
used in data analysis.

True

False

5. Fill in the blank: Correlation is the observation that there is a _____ between two or more pieces of data. 1 point

choice

visualization

relationship

competition

6. Fill in the blank: In order to get to the root cause of a problem, a data analyst should ask “Why?” ________ times. 1 point

seven

three

four

five

7. Fill in the blank: _______ is a method examining and evaluating how a process works currently in order to get 1 point
where you want to be in the future.

Data visualization

Strategy

Gap analysis

The five whys

8. Data analysts following data-driven decision-making use the analytical skills of curiosity, having a technical 1 point
mindset, and data design. What other two analytical skills would they employ? Select all that apply.

data strategy

understanding context

efficiency

knowledge

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