How To Be a Good Data Analyst Without Good Data

Musings on data quality

“This is wrong.” — key stakeholder

I dreaded hearing that phrase (and variations of it) when showing dashboards to project stakeholders. I would have a lot of anxiety around data analytics projects in the beginning because I didn’t want to fail. (I’m not great at handling failure— still working on that.)

But once I had more experience as an analyst, my perspective started to change. I wasn’t a bad analyst; rather, I was given bad data.