## Metadata - Author: [[david-jayatillake-from-davidj.substack|David Jayatillake From Davidj]] - Full Title:: Fog of War - Category:: #🗞️Articles - Document Tags:: [[Data team vision and mission|Data Team Vision And Mission]], - Finished date:: [[2024-10-05]] ## Highlights > Analytics work, which isn’t building reporting from a fully-known data model, is research and investigative. You don’t know what you’ll find and what is even possible to know, until you look. > People often mistake this work for production type work, which is better defined. They just want a “quick data pull” - it’s only quick if it’s known and terraformed territory. I think that’s part of why many analysts have become analytics engineers - that work output is more predictable in outcome and quantity - not necessarily because they prefer this work. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j9c5eytnr49d1h13yj8dy6qc))