Metadata
- Author: Ergest Xheblati
- Full Title:: Rare and Valuable Data Skills
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Data Team Vision And Mission,
- URL:: https://sqlpatterns.com/p/rare-and-valuable-data-skills
- Read date:: 2025-04-06
Highlights
business users are often unaware of what data and information is available, or could be easily obtained from existing infrastructure. They also don’t know what’s possible to do with data. This means there’s a HUGE opportunity for you as a data professional to work directly with the business, discover exactly what’s needed, what can be solved with data and what the highest ROI requests are. (View Highlight)
Dan Pink in his book “To Sell is Human” writes that the skill of problem finding is far more valuable than the skill of problem solving. That book was published back in 2012. In today’s age of advanced LLMs and Artificial Intelligence, problem solving is increasingly being performed by machines thus decreasing in value. Meanwhile the skill of problem finding (ie. figuring out what to ask the LLM and how to prompt it) is suddenly becoming very valuable. (View Highlight)