The Valued Analyst: From Data to Insight in 60 Minutes
summary
Claims that analysts must define mission and drivers before grabbing data, then build P times Q trees and inspect distribution to find the 20% that moves 80% of outcomes. Uses Power Query + Power Pivot to pull World Bank tables and Power BI/Power View/Power Map to assemble country dashboards (Colombia) and a 60k‑row Seattle real‑estate analysis that spots a $20M outlier and guides a purchase near Bridal Trails. Emphasizes simple bars and lines, top‑down mental pyramid for clear weekly briefings.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 6:22Understanding business needs
- 13:45Learning from operations
- 20:49Data hierarchies and trees
- 28:17Business storytelling basics
- 37:14Power BI country overview
- 46:45Power Map Seattle real estate
- 1:00:34Curiosity in analytics
- 1:07:03Q&A
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