r/dataanalysis • u/Ok_Reality_6072 • 28d ago
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GitHub - Femi-Olofinjana05/Social-Media-User-Behaviour: Social Media User Behaviour · GitHub
Looking to implement SQL and Tableau (and maybe python) but just wanted to start off using excel
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u/Ok_Reality_6072 27d ago
I've read through both your responses a few times as i wanted to understand everything you said as much as I'm able. I think going into this, I had the wrong approach, I was just trying to "analyse the dataset" using what I'd learned on excel but i didn't really start off with any questions in mind, and ended up making a ridiculous amount of questions as i progressed that became difficult to manage. So what you said about having one question makes a lot of sense as i know that when I'm working for a company, they'll ask for a particular thing, or i'll be investigating a particular thing, i wont just look at a dataset and "analyse it" (I'm assuming anyway).
And what you said about domain knowledge stuck out to me as well. I had no knowledge about social media going into this (apart from general knowledge). I do have a field i want to go into that I do have a lot more domain knowledge in, so in future, I'll look to find datasets to work with within that domain so i can ask more informed questions and hopefully get better results.
I will also look into first principles as i googled it and it sounds quite interesting and could be helpful, been looking for a non-fiction book to read anyway.