## Metadata - Author: [[Benn stancil|Benn Stancil]] - Full Title:: Work Like an Analyst - Category:: #🗞️Articles - Document Tags:: [[Business analysis|Business analysis]], [[Data team roles|Data team roles]], [[Data team roles|Data team roles]], [[todo-el-mundo-puede-ser-debiera-ser-pero-no-es-un-analista-de-datos|Todo El Mundo Puede Ser Debiera Ser Pero No Es Un Analista De Datos]] - URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/work-like-an-analyst - Finished date:: [[2023-07-14]] ## Highlights [[Data team roles|Data team roles]] > We were wrong. Analysis, even SQL-based analysis, isn’t like design, where a handful of people create stuff and everyone else is a consumer, with clear lines between them. It’s much, *much* fuzzier. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h5axf44gph5cgx3gj0bx1cmb)) > Users weren’t bimodal like we expected, but continuous. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h5axgb5hwqxh8yrpt7zv0pc9)) > A few months ago, [Tristan predicted](https://roundup.getdbt.com/p/data-expertise-everywhere) that analytical talent wouldn’t be concentrated in a “select few specialists,” but would “live inside of operational areas of the business ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h5axh74qdzvsaa4v3g1dfnma)) > Analysis is getting bundled with other functions; the behaviors of analysts and non-analysts are overlapping; analysts are becoming [positionless](https://wraptext.equals.app/every-analyst-is-a-finance-analyst/): [[Every analyst is a finance analyst|Every Analyst Is A Finance Analyst]] ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h5axjtq9tbaay1tzw2432c6p))