Strategic Analytics: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

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UNDERSTANDING THE TYPES OF DATA AND HOW THEY’RE CAPTURED

by Hugo Bowne-Anderson

The ability to understand and communicate about data is an increasingly important skill for the 21st-century citizen, for three reasons. First, data science and AI are affecting many industries globally, from health care and government to agriculture and finance. Second, much of the news is reported through the lenses of data and predictive models. And third, so much of our personal data is being used to define how we interact with the world.

When so much data is informing decisions across so many industries, you need to have a basic understanding of the data ecosystem in order to be part of the discussion. On top of this, the industry that you work in will ...