Metadata
- Author: David Jayatillake From Davidj
- Full Title:: Fog of War
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: 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)