Top 12 Characteristics of a "Data Analyzer" Finance Organization - Blog Post 9
Archetype 3 - The Data Analyzer
***Note from John: no kidding I've seen all of these displayed - this is REAL!***
In your best Southern Drawl, say "you might be a Data Analyzer if..." before each of these:
Your crowing achievement to date has been that you created and run more than 10 Access Databases...(because you can do a lot more analysis that way than in your systems)
Your analysis frequently ends up triggering business people to end all statements about it with "...so what are you trying to tell me?"
You typically close your door, put on headphones or otherwise isolate yourself because you are "crunching numbers" and can't be interrupted...
You like to present about 7 different ways to see every piece of information...because you can and it took a lot of time to slice everything that way...
You consider yourself a "bubble chart expert," use them very frequently, and are not a consultant...
You are frequently tempted to crack open your college statistics textbook or to Google! phrases like: homoscedasticity, least squares, and Bayesian (all related to regression analysis for those not wise in the ways of analysis!!!)
You often convince yourself you have to start an analysis over because you discover, after hours of time spent, that you are >.5% off and must have made a critical error...
You hate working with operating execs because they always want to "estimate" everything and don't appreciate your measures of statistical significance...
You secretly wish you had been a math major...
When you get stressed out, you just start modeling and ignore everything and everyone around you...
You can claim that accounting is not your sole focus (clearly "reporting" is a focus too)...
You can claim that simple reporting without detailed analysis is not good enough...
