An analyst's daily work can get repetitive. One day a request from a product manager can sound like:

“Hi Derek, could you please pull the 10 most active customers in Minneapolis? I want to talk to customers in a newer market for insights into a new feature we're thinking about building.”

A few weeks later, a marketing manager might ask:

Asking questions is easy. It's so easy that, as askers, we often don't think about the quality of our questions. Poorly framed questions waste everyone's time—yours included—because they require the answerer to make assumptions. When it comes to asking analysts to explore a problem you're trying to solve, better questions will drive better analysis and, ultimately, more actionable answers.

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