- Tags:: 🗞️Articles, Data team vision and mission
- Author:: Prukalpa Sankar
- Link:: Modern Data Stack Conference (MDSCON) 2021: The Top 5 Takeaways You Should Know | by Prukalpa | Towards Data Science
- Source date:: 2021-10-23
- Finished date:: 2021-10-31
True data participation requires targeting the remaining majority who may be more data-hesitant.
Add data landing pages with top reports, new releases, and important links.
Demo new tools and offer targeted trainings to relevant teams.
Promote and incentivize internal learning sessions — e.g. Office Hours to help business people learn how to generate quick insights.
Partner with power users, who can champion self-service analytics within their teams.
Identify “citizen data analysts”, a community of subject matter experts who will socialize their findings for other stakeholders and teams.
Second, David also pointed out a common fallacy of so-called data-driven teams — using data to confirm what they already think and reinforce existing decision-making. Instead, truly data-driven organizations need to fall out of love with their ideas and look for “uncomfortable” data, because being uncomfortable is what makes organizations grow.