General Data Analyst Questions

Question 1

Describe a resource you were able to create and how it benefited others.

Answer 1

Weekly LMS class setup report but also created an on-demand version of the report that users can get any time with some limitations

or weekly offerings not marked complete report

Question 2

What are the problems you currently see with reporting in Training and what can we do to solve them?

Answer 2

Saba’s native reporting widget is not able to pull large data sets and any sort of scale, so requests for aggregated data are basically impossible to pull directly out of Saba and must be done through back end tables that we don’t have access to.

Too many requests coming from ICs and M1s who are looking for nice-to-have or nice-to-know data, and Saba’s native reporting has severe performance issues so we almost entirely reliant on the GBI model to have any hope of pulling data out

Question 3

What questions do you have for me?

Answer 3

How would you define a successful rotation?

Team culture - all data analysts vs. 10 people in 7 different roles

Sharing between teams - collaborative