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Module 02 · Week 2 · Individual mission

Choose Useful Data Before Chasing Scale

Start with the decision, then judge which data is useful.

About 7 minutes. There is no timer.Formative practice only. No assessment marks.1 Insight Capsule on completionSLO1SLO3
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Briefing

Large or fast-moving data can help a business, but size alone does not make data useful.

Your job is to define the decision, choose relevant sources, and state the limits that must be checked before analysis.

Practice boundary

Your answers and progress are kept only while this page remains open. Refreshing or closing the page resets them. Your answers are not stored on this device or sent to a server.

Game economy

Build Momentum without risking XP

+3Correct checkpoint
−1First incorrect check in a checkpoint
100 XPAlways recoverable through retry

You begin with 3 Momentum. Any held points return when you solve that checkpoint. Momentum never falls below zero and never changes assessment marks. Complete the mission to open one transparent reward draw.

What you will practise

  1. Identify a business problem that may need data from several sources.SLO1
  2. Recommend a suitable first set of data sources for a stated decision.SLO3
  3. Explain why scale does not remove the need to check relevance and quality.SLO3

3 terms for this mission

Data source
A system, file, device, or service from which data is obtained.
Data variety
The mix of formats or types in a collection of data.
Data relevance
How directly the data can inform the stated question and decision.

All businesses, people, and data in this mission are fictional.