Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches

by Carl Anderson

Data quality

I've seen an inetersting definition of data quality - the ability of data to deliver expected value. It's an interesting perspective, and then we can say that we can measure it in terms of various dimensions like uniqueness, timeliness, accuracy, validity, integrity, completeness and consistency.

You can also just adopt and stick to the metric system (wake up, America!).

One simply cannot

At the farmer’s market, a chef will pick up produce, squeeze the avocados, sniff the basil. Those, after all, are literally his raw ingredients. Likewise, analysts should have the same attitude to data. It is their raw ingredients and must pass their sniff test, too.

Lol but wow

Different people describe different analyst roles differently, and many of the skills are overlapping among them,

This

“Data Scientist (n.): Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician."