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Data Analysis and Insight Generation Questions

Ability to convert raw data into clear, evidence based business insights and prioritized recommendations. Candidates should demonstrate end to end analytical thinking including data cleaning and validation, exploratory analysis, summary statistics, distributions, aggregations, pivot tables, time series and trend analysis, segmentation and cohort analysis, anomaly detection, and interpretation of relationships between metrics. This topic covers hypothesis generation and validation, basic statistical testing, controlled experiments and split testing, sensitivity and robustness checks, and sense checking results against domain knowledge. It emphasizes connecting metrics to business outcomes, defining success criteria and measurement plans, synthesizing quantitative and qualitative evidence, and prioritizing recommendations based on impact feasibility risk and dependencies. Practical communication skills are assessed including charting dashboards crafting concise narratives and tailoring findings to non technical and technical stakeholders, along with documenting next steps experiments and how outcomes will be measured.

HardTechnical
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You need to share aggregated dashboards with marketing but the source dataset contains PII. Propose a data anonymization and sharing strategy that preserves analytical utility while minimizing re-identification risk. Include pseudonymization, aggregation thresholds, differential privacy considerations, and compliance checks you would run.
HardSystem Design
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Design an automated weekly reporting system that delivers KPI dashboards and sends a concise PDF summary to leadership. Specify pipeline components (data sources, ETL, aggregation, dashboard rendering), data tests to include, versioning, rollback procedure for bad runs, and access control considerations.
EasyTechnical
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You're preparing a one-slide executive summary of an analysis showing a 12% drop in weekly active users (WAU). Produce a 2-sentence summary (context + key result), 3 bullet insights that explain potential drivers, and 2 concrete recommended next actions with success metrics to report back in two weeks.
HardTechnical
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Two teams report different Gross Margin numbers for the same month. Describe a root-cause analysis plan to reconcile the discrepancy, including which data lineage and transformation checks you perform, and propose a governance solution (metric catalog, single source of truth, data ownership, SLAs) to prevent recurrence.
EasyTechnical
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Define an SQL query to flag anomalous transactions per user where an anomaly is: transaction_amount > mean + 3 * stddev computed over that user's past 365 days. Assume a transactions table (transaction_id, user_id, amount, occurred_at). Use window functions and explain how you treat users with fewer than 5 historical transactions.

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