How To Save Early Spends on Data Analysis by Using Basic Rules of Thumb

How often have you faced a business problem that made you say, “I wish I could crunch numbers or create those fancy data models that are the philosopher’s stone of problem-solving ?” I have asked myself this question many times. Not only that, but I have also gone down the long road of learning advanced excel & basic SQL to attack the beast. But how many times have I taken out the big guns? Not many times. After multiple failures to become an analysis ninja I came to an overpowering realization – there were two important differences between problems that were solved well vs. the ones that were never solved – I had spent most of the time framing the problem. I had cracked the core of the solution within a week to 10 days. Most problems that were taking longer than 10 days to solve were stuck and needed a fresh start. That’s when I realized what Einstein meant in his famous quote, “If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I would u