Hilary Parker said that a successful data analysis convinces people about the properties of this data. The first person who needs to be convinced is the analyst it self.

https://soundcloud.com/nssd-podcast/episode-1-rcatladies-origin-story#t=30:00

Reflecting on my recent take home assignment for a data analyst role, I don’t think I’ve convinced myself much yet. I didn’t have “this data is telling us ____” moments. This is probably because I was focused on answering the given question one by one, rather than conducting analysis.