Analytics Projects Can Be Tricky to Debug

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Something that often catches junior devs by surprise is that analytics projects can be incredibly difficult to debug.

Initially, you might come in with the idea that the hard part is fitting models, writing queries, etc., but really, the hard part is figuring out what’s going on when your model or query is giving weird/sketchy results.

You kind of have to turn into a scientist wrestling with data discrepancies and noticing weird characteristics in the data you’re working with.

It takes some time and practice to build up this kind of skill. It’s a steeper learning curve than learning how to fit models or write queries because it doesn’t just boil down to learning a well-defined procedure or concept.

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