Once upon a time I might have agreed with this take, but having years worth of battle scars on me now - the interface that any company’s data presents about its

Once upon a time I might have agreed with this take, but having years worth of battle scars on me now - the interface that any company’s data presents about its operations is entirely coupled to the implementation of how it’s collected and the assumptions with which the system generating it is built. This is a good thing, because there is very little new under the sun, especially in business. However, most young businesses will waste tons of time and money reinventing the wheel of these systems and trying to customize them to their business’ unique needs, but the much more effective path is to really (re)think through your business process and figure out how to align it with the grain of the tool instead. This option is only obvious to those with experience in failing to execute on the former option, unfortunately. To your point, an effective analyst doesn’t just present data, they have to understand the entire world around that data - tooling, people, processes.