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When a Data Analyst makes a mistake
Mistakes can happen anywhere, including at work. Here’s how I cope and learn from them.
I believe everybody has made a mistake. They can happen anywhere at any time, oftentimes triggered by just a small act of sloppiness or an honest miss. They often come uninvited and may evoke feelings of guilt, disappointment, or embarrassment. If it happens at work, there can be more pressure as (we think) our professional capability and reliability might be questioned as a result.
This might be even worse when your job is a Data Analyst. Being a Data Analyst, you are the reliable go-to person for insights — always curious to crunch the numbers and codes, careful in deploying, and eager to monitor metrics movements. With this day-to-day high-precision work you’re more cautious by nature, and it can be unimaginable that something can be amiss. It makes it challenging to cope and recover, but it’s part of the process that grows us as a professional and a human beings.
In this article, I’ll be sharing how we as Data Analysts can cope with making mistakes at work and turn them into powerful growth engines.
Acknowledge the mistake
There are times you might be in disbelief when mistakes happen, considering the generally cautious…
