Day 47/48: Data Analytics

• ​3.7.A Skill in selecting and/or using data visualization techniques, for example flow charts, graphs, plots, word clouds, and heat maps.
• 3.7.B Skill in identifying stakeholders' needs, goals, requirements, questions, and objectives to develop a framework and/or plan for data analysis.
• 3.7.C Skill in analyzing and interpreting results of data analyses to identify patterns, trends, and relationships among variables.
• 3.7.D Skill in gathering and organizing data from internal and/or external sources in logical and/or practical ways to support retrieval and manipulation.

Goal: improve data literacy

Design and develop dashboards

TD professionals require a basic understanding of analytics and the ability to communicate the results of a project to stakeholders. 

Steps to Gather and Organize Data

1. Define the question
   
2. Set clear measurement priorities, 
   
3. Collect the data. 
   
4. Analyze the data. 
   
5. Interpret the results.

TD professionals typically measure talent development using metrics.

• Descriptive analytics. Use it to explain what happened. 
• Diagnostic analytics. Use it to explain why something happened  
• Predictive analytics. Use both descriptive and diagnostic data to predict what will happen in the future.
• Prescriptive analytics. Use it to show how to make something happen.

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