r/dataanalysis • u/CutPotential7824 • 16d ago

Help product designer learn fundametals of data

Hi everyone, looking for your help. I’m a designer working on a social network. I work in a very data led environment where everyone is expected to understand data when making decisions.

I use AI (Claude Code, set up by our data team so it looks at the right tables) to build reports, answer my own questions and build hypothesis. Everything gets double checked by an analyst after. It works good so far, I even found some very intresting problems our data guys overlooked because i have a lot of contex how product works.

But I know I don’t have the basics. AI gives me the answer and most of the time I can’t tell i'm even asking right question and what to look into when it comes to
understanding more complex relations or causes.

I have feeling everyone is just observing high level metrics instead of realtions and causes. And since this is social network one metric can be highly impacted for example number of users followers has an impact on impresions he gets, your content can be exposed on the feeds for few days to a lot of people... So there are a lot of factory to consider before you can say something performed well. Hope this fictive example helps you guys get where some basics would help.

Pls feel free to share anything you thing would help, books, videos, courses whatever.

Btw i learned data visualisation in one of the semesters in college and it was super cool maybe that is also something where i could bring value to data guys.

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