[Data/Analysis] How do you analyze a manual process that has weak data and poor measurement?

Instruction: Explain how you would analyze a process when the data is incomplete, inconsistent, or mostly absent.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can work in environments where clean data is not available.

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When the data is weak, I widen the evidence base instead of pretending the analysis has to stop. I would still look at whatever data exists, but I would combine it with interviews, process observation, case samples, existing spreadsheets, and examples of real work moving through the process. In manual environments, evidence is often fragmented, so the...

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