Data Stewards:
- Data gatekeeper
- Expertise: business and industry domains
- Functions: ensure data quality and (most knowledgeable) in dealing missing or fix unclean data
Data Engineers:
- Functions: design, construct, test, and maintain data infrastructures including applications that
extract, clean, transform, and load data from the data sources to centralized data repositories 1.
Data Science:
- Leverage statistical techniques and creates analytical models to derive new insights from
quantitative and qualitative data.
- Expertise: math and statistics
- Have keen eyes to find trends and patterns from current and historical pieces of information
allowing them to make predictions on what could potentially happen next.
Functional Analyst:
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In information technology, a repository (pronounced ree-PAHZ-ih-tor-i) is a central place in which an aggregation
of data is kept and maintained in an organized way, usually in computer storage.
Q&A
1. This is the primary question answered by Descriptive Analytics.
- What happened.
2. This answers the question, "What data do we have?"
- Data Governance
3. This is where data is collected, cleaned, transformed, aggregated, and consolidated to a
single repository.
- Information Stage
4. They utilize data and leverage on derived insights to help organizations make better
decisions on a specific functional domain.
- Functional Analyst
5. This is the primary question answered by Diagnostic Analytics.
- Why did it happen?
6. They design, construct, test, and maintain data infrastructures including applications that
extract, clean, transform, and load data from data sources to centralized data
repositories.
- Data Engineers
7. This is where trends and patterns from recent and historical data are found.
- Insights
8. This is normally associated with how data should be used ethically in the organization.
- (data?)
9. This is the primary question answered by Predictive Analytics.
- What could happen next?
10. They leverage statistical techniques and creates analytical models to derive new insights
from quantitative and qualitative data.
- Data Scientist
Week 2
1. This competency is where you use engineering principles to move data from several
sources to a single repository.
- Data Engineering Principles
2. This 21st Century Skill calls for rational thought to solve problems and make effective
decisions.
- Critical Thinking
3. This competency is where you use programming languages and software and
hardware solutions for data analysis.
- Computing
4. The expertise of Data Stewards is in:
- Business and Industry Domain
5. This competency is where you implement data strategies including ethical
considerations.
- Data Management and Governance
6. The expertise of Functional Analysts is in:
- Business and Industry Domain
7. This competency is where you apply techniques to identify problems with collected
data and how it will affect the analysis output.
- Methods and Algorithmss
8. This 21st Century Skill calls for continuously monitoring and improving individual
knowledge and skills.
- Dynamic (self-) Re-skilling
9. This competency is where you investigate all relevant data to derive insight for
decision-making.\
- Operational Analytics
10. This competency is where you apply your industry expertise to effectively
contextualize data.
- Domain Knowledge and Application
Notes:
1st four Analytics Competencies – Business and Organization Skills
Next 5 – Technical Skills
Last – Workplace skills
Week 3
1. At this maturity model, the organization applies analytics regularly but its strategic
focus is not grounded in analytics.
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2. At the highest maturity level, this DELTA+ component is relentlessly searched for by
an organization and is considered as a strategic asset.
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3. At the highest maturity level, this DELTA+ component shows passion for analytical
competition.
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4. At the highest maturity level, this DELTA+ component suggests the presence of
enterprise-wide big data and analytics infrastructure.
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5. At the highest maturity level, this DELTA+ component talks about more sophisticated
ways of doing advanced analytics.
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6. Managing key data, technology, and analytics professionals from an organization-
wide perspective is a concern of this DELTA+ component.
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7. Behaving analytically and showing passion for analytical competition is a concern
of this DELTA+ component.
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8. Analytical organization have this DELTA+ component who fully embrace Analytics and
lead company culture toward data-driven decision-making.
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9. At the highest maturity level, this DELTA+ component become embedded in the
strategic planning process and are considered business initiatives and not just
Analytics initiatives.
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10. Keeping practitioners motivated with creative and challenging projects is a
concern of this DELTA+ component.
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