[Data/Analysis] How do you think about root cause analysis when both process issues and data issues are involved?

Instruction: Answer this as a root-cause question where measurement issues and workflow issues may both be contributing.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can avoid treating process and data problems as separate worlds when they interact.

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When both process and data issues are involved, I try not to solve them in isolation too early. Weak process can create weak data, and weak data can hide the real process problem. So I start by mapping the workflow and the data path together. Where is information created, changed, delayed, or interpreted? Where are people working around the...

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