Balancing Tactical and Strategic tasks as a Data Analyst

How to maximize business outcomes without burning

In linking data to business outcomes, Data Analysts play the most critical role. They are typically the only people on the Data team that understand both the data context as well as the business context.

In my experience, on a typical day, a Data Analyst will get pulled into multiple ad-hoc tactical requests by the business:” Can you send the 2-year trend for our product CAC by this afternoon.” While these requests are a…