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Analytics Craft

How analysts learn, practice, communicate, and build trustworthy analytical habits.

This is the bucket for learning how analytical work is actually done.

Analytics CraftApril 14, 2026

Practicing Data Analysis Is Broken Too (Not Just Hiring)

Most analyst practice trains execution on clean toy problems instead of judgment under ambiguity.

Analytics CraftApril 13, 2026

LLMs made polished take-homes and portfolios easier to fake, which breaks many old hiring signals.

Analytics CraftApril 11, 2026

Many analyst hiring processes still reward presentation polish and credential proxies over analytical judgment.

Business AnalysisDecember 11, 2025

The resume is a noisy proxy for competence, and teams confuse that proxy with evidence of actual analytical ability.

Business AnalysisMarch 14, 2023

A process can be tightly defined and still be strategically wrong, especially when teams confuse structure with usefulness.

Analytics CraftDecember 2, 2022

I would like to start by saying that sometimes, there is no choice, and that is a very significant foreword.

StatisticsNovember 5, 2022

Statistics matters for analysts, but mostly as a way to reason better rather than as a badge of mathematical purity.

Business AnalysisNovember 4, 2022

Dashboards often manufacture the feeling of clarity before a team has done the harder work of defining what matters.

Analytics CraftOctober 29, 2022

So look, this post is going to be a bit of a downer, but I hope we can end it on a somewhat optimistic note.