What data skills are hard to learn or practice outside of a full-time working context? My list: - learning new undocumented data sources - effective requirements gathering / translation - building data skills / culture with business partners What else?
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Add to that the optimism effect ... sometimes people remember the parts they hope are true. One of my big recent learnings around communication is the need to focus on one or two clear messages, and to reinforce them deliberately.
Yeah, that's huge! The reinforcement part is key as well. You gotta say something a couple times for it to really sink in, particularly for people whose primary job isn't to understand data work
