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Weekly challenge 1

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Question 1

Which of the following options describes data analysis?

  • Creating new ways of modeling and understanding the unknown by using raw data

  • Using facts to guide business strategy

  • The collection, transformation, and organization of data in order to draw conclusions, make predictions, and drive informed decision-making

  • The various elements that interact with one another in order to provide, manage, store, organize, analyze, and share data

Correct. Data analysis is the collection, transformation, and organization of data in order to draw conclusions, make predictions, and drive informed decision-making.

Question 2

People analytics is used to create a more productive workplace. It involves collecting and analyzing information about what?

  • Employees

  • Competitors

  • Stakeholders

  • Customers

Correct. People analytics — also known as human resources or workforce analytics — involves collecting and analyzing information on a company’s employees in order to gain insights that unlock potential and create a more productive workplace.

Question 3

Fill in the blank: Data ecosystems are made up of elements that _____ with each other. This makes it possible for them to produce, manage, store, organize, analyze, and share data.

  • gain insights

  • unite

  • problem-solve

  • interact

Correct. Data ecosystems are made up of various elements that interact with one another in order to produce, manage, store, organize, analyze, and share data.

Question 4

What tactics can a data analyst use to effectively blend gut instinct with facts? Select all that apply.

  • Focus on intuition to choose which data to collect and how to analyze it.

  • Ask how to define success for a project, but rely most heavily on their own personal perspective.

  • Use their knowledge of how their company works to better understand a business need.

  • Apply their unique past experiences to their current work, while keeping in mind the story the data is telling.

Correct. At the heart of data-driven decision-making is data, so analysts are most effective when they ensure that facts are driving strategy.

Question 5

Billings Upholstery has defined a problem it needs to solve: Find a more environmentally friendly way to produce its furniture. A data analyst gathers relevant data, analyzes it, and uses it to draw conclusions. The analyst then shares their analysis with subject-matter experts from the manufacturing team, who validate the findings. Finally, a plan is put into action. This scenario describes what process?

  • Data-driven decision-making

  • Customer service

  • Data science

  • Identification of trends

Correct. This company has put data at the heart of its business strategy in order to achieve data-driven decision-making.

Question 6

To get the most out of data-driven decision-making, it’s important to include insights from people very familiar with the business problem. Identify what these people are called.

  • Subject-matter experts

  • Stakeholders

  • Competitors

  • Customers

Correct. Subject-matter experts are very familiar with the business problem and can look at the results of data analysis to validate the choices being made.

Question 7

Sharing the results of your analysis with colleagues who are very familiar with the business problem supports what practice?

  • Data management

  • Data-driven decision-making

  • Data science

  • Data analytics

Correct. Sharing the results of your analysis with people who are familiar with the business problem is an example of data-driven decision-making. Data-driven decision-making is using facts to guide business strategy.

Question 8

You have recently subscribed to an online data analytics magazine. You really enjoyed an article and want to share it in the discussion forum. Which of the following would be appropriate in a post? Select all that apply.

  • Giving credit to the original author

  • Checking your post for typos or grammatical errors

  • Including your own thoughts about the article

  • Including an advertisement for how to subscribe to the data analytics magazine

Correct. Sharing informative articles is an appropriate use of the forum as long as you give credit to the original author. Also, posts should be relevant to data analytics and checked for typos and grammatical errors.