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Decide If This Data Is Worth Analyzing Before You Spend a Week On It

Before I dig into [dataset and analysis question], help me decide if it's worth ...

#data #analysis #scoping

#data #communication #slack

data Beginner

Write a Slack Update About a Metric Movement Without Hand-Waving

I need to post a Slack update about [metric name] moving [direction and magnitud...

#excel #charts #visualization

excel Beginner

Excel: Pick the Right Chart for the Story You're Trying to Tell

I have data and a point I want to make, but I don't know which chart conveys it ...

#email #internal-communications #change-management

email Advanced

Email: Announce a Reorg Without Triggering a Slack Spiral

Draft an internal email announcing [REORG DETAILS]. Lead with what's changing an...

#data #storytelling #presentation

Turn a 6-tab analysis into a 3-slide story for executives

I have a 6-tab analysis with 14 charts. I have 10 minutes with the leadership te...

#excel #dashboard #reporting

excel intermediate

Build a weekly dashboard people actually open without retraining them

Act as a BI designer. I want a one-tab Excel dashboard that a non-analyst team o...

#writing #memo #structure

writing intermediate

Write a memo that survives being read out of order by skim readers

Act as an executive editor at a consulting firm. I am writing a memo that will b...

#data #cohort analysis #retention

data Advanced

Design a Cohort Retention Analysis from Raw Event Data

Help me design a cohort retention analysis. My raw data: an events table with us...

#finance #runway #burn rate

finance Intermediate

Build a Runway Calculator With Burn Sensitivity

Help me build a runway calculator with sensitivity analysis. Inputs: current cas...

#rolling #trend #dynamic-range

excel Intermediate

Excel: Build a Rolling 12-Month Revenue Trend Without Hardcoded Dates

I want a chart that always shows the last 12 months of revenue — so when I add M...

#charts #visualization #dataviz

Data: Pick the Right Chart Type for the Thing You Actually Want to Say

I have a dataset and I know what I want the audience to take away — but I keep d...

#finance #business #financial-analysis

finance Advanced

Finance: Read a P&L and Find What the CEO Doesn't Want to See

Here's the latest P&L: [PASTE OR SUMMARIZE]. The CEO is presenting it in a board...

#business #board #executive

business Advanced

Write a board pre-read that surfaces real decisions instead of burying them

Help me draft a 3-page board pre-read for our quarterly meeting. The deck curren...

#marketing #growth #activation

marketing Advanced

Find the activation moment that predicts a paying user

You are a growth analyst. We have [N] signed-up users and want to find the singl...

#hr #job-description #hiring

hr Intermediate

Write a job description that filters out the wrong applicants instead of attracting more of them

I'm writing a JD for [role + level]. The default move is to list every nice-to-h...

#data #documentation #metrics

data intermediate

Write a metric definitions document that survives one analyst quitting

Act as a head of data preparing for an analyst's last day. I want the metric def...

#creative #idea-selection #decision-making

creative intermediate

Decide which of three creative ideas to execute when all of them feel good

Act as a creative director who has watched people execute the wrong idea well. I...

#data #analysis #data-science

Find the Story Hidden in My Dataset

You are a data analyst who turns numbers into decisions. I will describe or past...

#cohort analysis #retention #saas

data Advanced

Cohort Retention Analysis Framework SaaS Product Health

Act as a product analyst. Build a cohort retention analysis for [PRODUCT] using ...

#data #dashboards #metrics

data Beginner

Data: Cut a Dashboard Down to the 5 Metrics Anyone Actually Uses

I have a dashboard that's grown to 30 charts and nobody knows where to look. Aud...

#excel #charts #data-visualization

excel Beginner

Excel: Pick a Chart That Doesn't Need a Caption to Be Understood

I want to show [DESCRIBE COMPARISON OR TREND] to [AUDIENCE]. Tell me the right c...

#finance #accounting #bookkeeping

finance Intermediate

Categorize ambiguous transactions consistently across months

I'm doing my monthly bookkeeping and I have a list of transactions where the rig...

#data #reporting #dashboard

Turn a daily metrics email no one reads into one a busy exec will open

We send a daily metrics email to the leadership team. Nobody opens it. I want to...