Drafting queries and chart variants
AI can draft familiar SQL and chart code, but plausible syntax can encode the wrong grain or denominator.
Your response: Define the metric first, inspect rows and test totals against an independent calculation.
Career-specific AI guide
AI & Data Analytics & BI
No replacement score. Separate the career’s tasks to see where to direct AI and where to preserve independent reasoning.
Task Automation Exposure
Task, explanation, student response
Lower never means permanently safe; higher never means the career is useless. Task mix and responsibility change.
Investigating changes and anomalies
AI can suggest hypotheses, but it cannot know which business event or data defect actually occurred.
Your response: Keep an evidence log and separate observations, hypotheses and verified causes.
Framing decisions and accountable communication
Choosing what to measure and how to communicate consequences needs context and accountable judgment.
Your response: Practice asking who is affected, what is missing and what decision the evidence supports.
Independent capability
What should you still be able to do?
- Spreadsheet reasoning, SQL, descriptive statistics and Git basics.
- Tables, joins, aggregation, missing data and data types.
- Questions, decisions, measures and ethical handling of data.
- Metric definitions, grain, cohorts and comparison baselines.
- Data cleaning, validation and reproducible analysis.
Verification drill
In an AI-generated solution, identify one bug, one unproven assumption, one missing edge case and one simpler alternative.
Next choices