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data team roles

We were wrong. Analysis, even SQL-based analysis, isn’t like design, where a handful of people create stuff and everyone else is a consumer, with clear lines between them. It’s much, much fuzzier. (View Highlight)

Users weren’t bimodal like we expected, but continuous. (View Highlight)

A few months ago, Tristan predicted that analytical talent wouldn’t be concentrated in a “select few specialists,” but would “live inside of operational areas of the business (View Highlight)

Analysis is getting bundled with other functions; the behaviors of analysts and non-analysts are overlapping; analysts are becoming positionless: Every Analyst Is a Finance Analyst (View Highlight)