Explore Tasks
Evaluate statistical and causal evidence for an intervention's impact
A decision-maker receives an impact estimate with design validity, uncertainty and a decision on whether to act.
6jobs do it
7jobs help with it
73skills it needs
- Data Analyst
- Data Scientist
- Lead Data Scientist
- Marketing Analyst
- Product Analyst
- Pricing Analyst
- Marketing Lead
- Marketing Manager
- Product Manager
- Group Product Manager
- Pricing Lead
- Head of Commercial
- Continuous Improvement Manager
Does itHelps with it
- Reading and tracing unfamiliar code
- Reviewing human- and AI-generated code changes for correctness and risk
- Sampling and reviewing a team's work against standards
- Diagnosing misleading data visualisations
- Verifying reports and dashboards before and after release
- Verifying AI-assisted outputs against sources
- Disclosing AI contribution to professional work
- Testing competing explanations with discriminating evidence
- Independently checking analytical conclusions and claims
- Escalating unresolved risks with evidence and clear ownership
- Giving specific developmental feedback on data and AI work
- Judging the materiality of defects and deficiencies for the intended use
- Writing maintainable code for analytical and data work
- Fitting, checking and interpreting inferential regression models
- Estimating quantities and differences with intervals
- Establishing and declaring data grain
- Combining tables safely: cardinality, fan-out and conservation of totals
- Calculating and interpreting percentages, rates and ratios
- Interpreting averages, weighted measures and mix effects
- Judging whether a change exceeds normal variation
- Formulating answerable data questions
- Assessing data source credibility and fitness for a question
- Profiling data
- Standardising and cleaning data under agreed rules
- Preparing analysis-ready datasets reproducibly
- Choosing and justifying missing-data treatments
- Describing distributions with summaries and plots
- Comparing groups
- Exploring data to find patterns that survive validation
- Investigating anomalies
- Designing and interpreting hypothesis tests
- Reading charts and dashboards correctly, including their state
- Selecting charts for evidence and decisions
- Writing evidence-led findings and auditable recommendations with their limits
- Defining the analysis population: filters, nulls, dates and time zones
- Analysing event sequences, states and durations
- Diagnosing incorrect query and calculation results
- Decomposing one's own tasks for AI assistance
- Training reproducible machine learning models
- Eliciting the decision behind an analytical request
- Designing efficient and reproducible investigations
- Choosing an analytical method to fit the question and data
- Interpreting trends and seasonality
- Designing experiments
- Estimating and challenging causal effects
- Defining measurable outcomes and leading indicators
- Testing, implementing and sustaining measured improvements
- Evaluating learning transfer and performance outcomes
- Designing implementable change plans
- Evaluating whether people understood, adopted and sustained a change
- Diagnosing capability gaps from work evidence and planning development
- Measuring campaign outcomes with valid denominators
- Weighing conflicting evidence by design strength
- Verifying benefits realisation and attribution
- Applying research ethics and participant consent
- Recognising misleading numerical claims
- Interpreting correlation without inferring cause
- Constructing clear and honest charts
- Evaluating and improving chart accessibility
- Communicating quantified uncertainty
- Presenting and defending evidence-based recommendations to decision-makers
- Building decision-focused reports and dashboards
- Explaining technical work to accountable non-specialists
- Communicating sensitive or unwelcome analytical findings
- Judging whether uncertainty changes the decision
- Recognising and resolving ethical conflicts in data and AI work
- Identifying and quantifying decision downside and exposure
- Making accountable decisions under uncertainty
- Revising prior decisions when evidence changes
- Reasoning about systems, feedback and second-order effects
- Facilitating group decisions using disputed evidence
- Rating risks against appetite and choosing proportionate treatment
- Interpreting policy scope and delegated authority limits
Paths that teach the skills it needs
Skill Path
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Skill Path
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- Modules
- 5 open
- Practice data
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