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docs: 📝 Add insights and resources on business tools, data complexity, and open data
- Enhanced guidelines in Data/Dashboards.md on understanding business tools and decision workflows.
- Expanded on the complexity of data and the role of data professionals in Data/Data Culture.md.
- Added new recommendations on coordination through data discussions.
- Updated Life Advice.md with thoughts on our understanding and potential.
- Included new resources in Open Data.md for curated datasets.
- Suggested walking for tasks under an hour in Routine.md.
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- Follow up and iterate on your work by marketing, improving and maintaining it into the future.
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- Provide deep links in the dashboard to the underlying data or specific segmentations/filters.
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- Design matters a lot — if it looks bad, people won't look at it.
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- Learn about the tools business people use, understand them, and dive deep into their decision workflows to see where you can actually help and facilitate.
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The value is that now discussions are happening about the data.
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- Data rarely moves fast enough across companies to enable data-informed decisions.
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- [Earning the authority to deny requests is one of the most important factors to running a world-class data team](https://twitter.com/teej_m/status/1420432376270782464)
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- Data professionals can build consensus as the company becomes more diverse.
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- Data systems can establish methods for understanding the world even as it becomes more complex.
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- Data systems can establish methods for understanding the world even as it becomes more complex. Data is complex, and will stay that way. Not even great business people or strategy can make data simple. So we need data people to help guide business efforts.
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- Data literacy can create pathways for anyone to contribute equally to the organization's reality.
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- [Understanding variation is the beginning of data literacy](https://twitter.com/ejames_c/status/1732597443127382369).
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- Create a single space as the central place to post [[Data Practices#Data Request Template]].
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- [Aim for a culture of celebrating measurable progress and learnings, versus celebrating shipping](https://erikbern.com/2021/07/07/the-data-team-a-short-story.html).
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- Align company on key actions. Every stakeholder should know how to explore that data.
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- Do pre-mortems. Where would we see the impact of *X* going wrong? Model that and plot it on a dashboard.
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- You can force coordination by making a chart and start the discussion with it. Having a default chart will foce people to fight on the definition and also provides a starting point. Discussions are much better when there are based on data and definitions.
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- Coordination happens when people agree on data, direction, and how to move to the desired place.
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- [Send surveys](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfufs_0zOGlFiE6oqrdZU7xCi399CBYbIlZkAMe15GTRRcPZA/viewform) from time to time trying to get pain points and know where issues are.
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- E.g: Do you have access to the data I need to make decisions in your role?
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- [Bring the collaboration process inline with the assets to allow for better handoffs and feedback](https://pedram.substack.com/p/data-can-learn-from-design).
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- Build great memories.
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- Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates. At the first gate, ask yourself, "s it true?"" At the second gate ask, "Is it necessary?" At the third gate ask, "Is it kind?""
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- Elevate good behavior rather than punishing bad behavior, especially in [[Parenting|children]] and animals.
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- We know less than we think. We are often not even asking the right questions.
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- You can do more than you think. We are tied down by invisible orthodoxy.
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## Resources
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Open Data.md
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- [Data is Plural](https://github.com/data-is-plural)
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- [Data Liberation Project](https://github.com/data-liberation-project)
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- [Opendatasoft](https://www.opendatasoft.com/)
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- [Open Source Observer](https://www.opensource.observer/)
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- [Source.coop](https://source.coop/)
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- [Our World in Data](https://ourworldindata.org/)
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### Indexes
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Routine.md
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