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How to improve your data fluency: Overcome your analytics anxiety
What you’ll learn
In this short chapter we will introduce the notion of analytics anxiety as a major barrier to talking about data in a constructive way in organisations. You will learn about the main components of analytics anxiety and how to overcome it. This prepares the ground for the following chapters.
Data conversation
Josh: Shall we ask your new data analyst, Eric, to come in and brief us about our risk exposure?
Steve:Uhm, this guy speaks gibberish, I’m sorry. Why don’t we connect him with my assistant Gill and let her report to me the essentials then?
Josh: But Steve, I think you can really gain more insights by interacting directly with him. There are ...
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