WGU D468 DISCOVERING DATA
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ Data Analysis
Answer: The collection, transformation, and organization of data
in order to draw conclusions, make predictions, and drive
informed decision-making
◉ Data Analyst
Answer: Someone who collects, transforms, and organizes data in
order to help make informed decisions
◉ Data Analytics
Answer: the science of data
◉ People analytics
Answer: The practice of collecting and analyzing data on the
people who make up a company's workforce in order to gain
insights to improve how the company operates.
◉ six steps of the data analysis process
Answer: Ask, Prepare, Process, Analyze, Share, Act
,◉ Ask phase
Answer: Work to understand the challenge to be solved or the
question to be answered. Likely be assigned to you by
stakeholders
◉ Prepare phase
Answer: Find and collect the data you'll need to answer your
questions. Identify data sources, gather data, and verify that it is
accurate and useful.
◉ Process phase
Answer: Clean and organize your data. Removing any
inconsistencies, filling in missing values, changing data to a format
that's easier to work with.
◉ Analyze phase
Answer: Doing the necessary data analysis to uncover answers
and solutions. Also examining trends and patterns.
◉ Share phase
Answer: When you present your findings to decision-makers
through a report, presentation, or data visualizations. You also
decide which medium you want to share your findings and select
the data to include.
, ◉ Act phase
Answer: Putting the data insights into action. This could mean,
implementing a new business strategy, making changes to a
website, or any other action that solves the initial problem.
◉ Data ecosystems
Answer: The various elements that interact with one another in
order to produce, manage, store, organize, analyze, and share data
◉ Cloud
Answer: A place to keep data online, rather than a computer hard
drive
◉ Data science
Answer: Creating new ways of modeling and understanding the
unknown by using raw data
◉ Data analytics
Answer: the science of data
◉ Data-driven decision making
Answer: Using facts to guide business strategy
◉ Gut instinct
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ Data Analysis
Answer: The collection, transformation, and organization of data
in order to draw conclusions, make predictions, and drive
informed decision-making
◉ Data Analyst
Answer: Someone who collects, transforms, and organizes data in
order to help make informed decisions
◉ Data Analytics
Answer: the science of data
◉ People analytics
Answer: The practice of collecting and analyzing data on the
people who make up a company's workforce in order to gain
insights to improve how the company operates.
◉ six steps of the data analysis process
Answer: Ask, Prepare, Process, Analyze, Share, Act
,◉ Ask phase
Answer: Work to understand the challenge to be solved or the
question to be answered. Likely be assigned to you by
stakeholders
◉ Prepare phase
Answer: Find and collect the data you'll need to answer your
questions. Identify data sources, gather data, and verify that it is
accurate and useful.
◉ Process phase
Answer: Clean and organize your data. Removing any
inconsistencies, filling in missing values, changing data to a format
that's easier to work with.
◉ Analyze phase
Answer: Doing the necessary data analysis to uncover answers
and solutions. Also examining trends and patterns.
◉ Share phase
Answer: When you present your findings to decision-makers
through a report, presentation, or data visualizations. You also
decide which medium you want to share your findings and select
the data to include.
, ◉ Act phase
Answer: Putting the data insights into action. This could mean,
implementing a new business strategy, making changes to a
website, or any other action that solves the initial problem.
◉ Data ecosystems
Answer: The various elements that interact with one another in
order to produce, manage, store, organize, analyze, and share data
◉ Cloud
Answer: A place to keep data online, rather than a computer hard
drive
◉ Data science
Answer: Creating new ways of modeling and understanding the
unknown by using raw data
◉ Data analytics
Answer: the science of data
◉ Data-driven decision making
Answer: Using facts to guide business strategy
◉ Gut instinct
