Data & Finance for Work & Life
Data analysts are some of the most critical, yet least understood, positions in business today. Some say that they are “responsible for all the data that a company collects and produces.” But this description so vast that it’s unclear what data analysts actually do. So… what does a data analyst do? In short, data analysts […]
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Data analysis for qualitative research is not intuitive. This is because qualitative data stands in opposition to traditional data analysis methodologies: while data analysis is concerned with quantities, qualitative data is by definition unquantified. But there is an easy, methodical approach that anyone can take use to get reliable results when performing data analysis for
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To understand the pros and cons of data visualization, you should first look at historical context: the data visualization discipline has grown in popularity as a communication tool since the mid-2000s, a time when private companies began collecting information at mass scale, and for good reason. Data visualization helps communicate complex relationships and ideas in
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Content analysis is a type of qualitative research (as opposed to quantitative research) that focuses on analyzing content in various mediums, the most common of which is written words in documents. It’s a very common technique used in academia, especially for students working on theses and dissertations, but here we’re going to talk about how
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Database analysts are the people who keep databases functioning well over time. They solve a problem: though most non-technical people never see it, databases decay with use. New systems, updates, and file types pose a constant threat to a company’s use of data, and database analysts protect against these threats. In a sentence, database analysts
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While you may be familiar with skills in a role as business analyst, technical BAs need an additional set of rigorous hard and soft skills to succeed in most organizations. Like traditional BAs, they need the essential communication, requirements elicitation, and documentation skills. But companies also require that technical BAs have strong working knowledge of
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Some choices are tough. Think of the last time you bought a car. You had to make a decision about price, color, gas mileage, electric or gas, size, horse power, and more. It’s possible one or two criteria were clear (i.e it had to be under $20,000 and red). Then you went shopping and found
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It may sound strange to have a dictionary for data since a dictionary is data, but these metadata repositories are an essential element to maintaining and communicating the structure of any underlying database. In short, a data dictionary describe a table’s columns based on common traits (i.e name, definition, data type) within another table. Admins
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The terms “use case” and “test case” are sometimes used interchangeably in the IT development world, and for good reason. Both terms refer to a way of checking if users’ interactions with a product or system occur in an intended way. The difference lies in creator intent. In a sentence, a use case describes the
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“Business analyst vs software developer” sounds like a war movie, but the two actually work together. Business analysts (BAs) and software developers (SDs) collaborate in the software development lifecycle, but they’re far from being the same role. In short, business analysts collect, interprets, and document requirements for a software product, whereas software developers and programmers
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