The dark art of gathering requirements

Like many people in the data community recently I’ve decided to join Mastodon to engage with the community on all things data. (Come find me at:https://data-folks.masto.host/@othhughes). Last week I decided to test out the platform’s polling feature to get some data on a topic I’ve been thinking about recently:- Why analytics often feels so inefficient?

Where does our time go?

Here’s the “Toot” (Mastodon’s equivalent to a tweet 😂):

Now this was far from the most scientific survey, but nevertheless, the answer was pretty definitive and validated my suspicion… we waste most of our time working on the wrong questions!