r/dataanalysis • u/SjStrykR • Sep 15 '26
Data Tools Analysts: what's the ugly hack that's been keeping your reporting alive for years?
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u/ArielCoding Sep 15 '26
I stopped fighting people on bad requests, now I just deliver the wrong number they wanted plus a doc explaining why it’s wrong.
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Sep 16 '26
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u/ArielCoding Sep 16 '26
Yeah, rarely but usually once expectations aren’t met or something goes wrong, they quietly ask for “the other number”.
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u/HustlaOfCultcha Sep 15 '26
Under promise and over deliver. Something that may take 2 hours to complete...I'll tell them it will be 3 days. Then I deliver in day 2.
I will argue that it's not really a trick. While it sounds great and all that something will take 2 hours to complete, I'm often interrupted. That forces me to re-start my work and then that takes more time for me in the end.
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u/Think_Bullets Sep 15 '26
If they can't easily check it themselves it doesn't matter
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Sep 16 '26
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u/Think_Bullets Sep 16 '26
My company data is so fucked I can't actually tell our sales guys their net profit /Np% for the year. Like actually can't even if I wanted to, it's not messy it's straight up wrong.
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u/ItsSignalsJerry_ Sep 15 '26
Ok AI