From the course: Actionable Insights and Business Data in Practice

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Make insights actionable

Make insights actionable

- [Instructor] You've been working on your data project. You've done all the hard technical work. And you're almost there. It's just a few more steps to get to the promise of what you're working on. Think about it. You found a pattern. There are some statistical association in the data which could be a correlation between two variables, the difference between two groups, or a cluster of cases. The insight might help your stakeholders. Some of the patterns may be important to them because they might predict outcomes they care about or give clues to what they can do to bring out those outcomes. But your job is to make it actionable. You want to go beyond just saying this might happen in the future to tell your stakeholders what they can start doing or stop doing or keep doing to bring about the outcomes that matter to them. That's your job. So when you're actually working with the data, you want to think about…

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