About Lesson
Pack in Your Analyst Brain
Goal – help your team see what you see and think how you think.
Explicitly state the questions to ask of the data
Choose one main question you’re going to answer for the team, e.g. the way David Krevitt does when building the agency data pipeline.
Then imply the question in the title of your file. Next, elaborate on the question, and restate it specifically at the top of the charts. Emphasizing the question will focus the reader’s intention and get their minds to play detective.

Add conclusions and highlights
At the bottom of your chart section, state your findings, grounded in the data shown. This will often be the element the viewer pays most attention to. Follow Avinash’s steps for avoiding crappy dashboards:
- Interpret current state – what is going on and why you think it is going on
- Recommended action – what the team can do about it
- Expected outcome – extra motivation to go take the recommended action
