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Why sitting around waiting for data requests is killing your career

Original: Rare and Valuable Data Skills

May 28, 2025
4 min read
Opinion
Intermediate
Rare and Valuable Data Skills

Summary

Uncover the rare and highly sought-after data skills that set top analytics professionals apart. Dive into cutting-edge techniques and tools that enable deeper insights, predictive modeling, and data-driven decision-making – empowering data analysts, business analysts, and data scientists to drive transformative results for their organizations. Elevate your data mastery and unlock the keys to becoming an indispensable asset in today's data-driven business landscape.

Who This Is For

Business Analysts
Data Scientists
Analytics Engineers

Key Takeaways

  • Learn to proactively discover business problems by shadowing operations teams instead of waiting for requests
  • Develop 'problem finding' skills which are more valuable than problem solving in the AI era
  • Avoid the 'data service desk trap' by being proactive rather than reactive with stakeholders
  • Map business systems with data to identify high-ROI opportunities that others miss
  • Position yourself as indispensable by solving problems business users didn't know you could fix

Tools & Technologies

SQL Excel CRM systems Dashboards LLMs and AI tools

Topics Covered

sql date-time calendar-logic data-analysis

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