The Think-Act-Lead series turns data skeptics into data enthusiasts by preparing employees to understand and engage in the organization's digital or data strategy


Course Overview

This is a set of 3 courses in Aryng's Citizen Analyst learning path. The objective of the bundle is to -

  • Prepare employees to understand and engage in the organization’s digital or data strategy
  • Turn data skeptics into data enthusiasts
  • Develop curiosity
  • Inspire collaboration and
  • Develop Critical thinking
  • Data visualization
  • Deepens critical thinking and problem-solving skills using BADIR
  • Develop a foundational understanding of statistics and its direct application to business
  • Reinforces structured process and storytelling with data
  • Empower them with an understanding of how to design the analytics agenda for their organization
  • Create impact in cross-functional organizations through leadership and data literacy
  • Understand when and where to apply Predictive Analytics
  • Understand when and where to apply Test-and-Learn
  • Create a common framework for problem-solving with data
  • Create a common knowledge and language on essential tools and statistics

Who is this course for?

Think with Data course is a part of the Citizen Analyst certification. This course is best suited for


Thinking With Data Course Includes:

  • Understand the benefits of “thinking with data” and its relation to employee, team, and company success.
  • Describe how data and decision science are needed to achieve business results.
  • Describe the benefits of BADIR as a structured approach to problem-solving.
  • Create a common language for problem-solving and describe each of the five steps in the BADIR methodology.
  • Understand basic charts and tables and how they are interpreted.
  • Use essential questions to clarify the real business problem.
  • Test their knowledge to reinforce what they learned and to close any remaining knowledge gaps.

Act With Data Course Includes:

  • Understand the benefits of “Acting with data” and its relation to employee, team, and company success.
  • Define basic statistical terms for central tendency, variance, and statistical significance.
  • Understanding the end-to-end process for problem-solving with data using BADIR
  • Discuss key learnings and think of a problem within their team/function that the participant believes can be improved using BADIR.
  • Practice acting with data. Prepare to share what they learned with their team.
  • Test their knowledge to reinforce what they learned and to close any remaining knowledge gaps.

Lead with Insights Course Includes:

  • Understand the benefits of “Leading with Insights” and its relation to employee, team, and company success.
  • Learn the basic concepts of how to lay an analytics agenda- identify the top data science questions and projects
  • Learn how to create impact in a Cross-Functional Organization
  • An introduction to Predictive Analytics 
  • An overview of Test and Learn





Piyanka Jain

Your Instructor



Author of the Amazon bestseller Behind Every Good Decision

Piyanka Jain is the President and CEO of Aryng, an analytics consulting company focused on analytics training, consulting and recruiting. Her client list includes companies like Google, Box, Here, Applied Materials, Abbott Labs, and GE. As a highly regarded industry thought leader in analytics, she writes for Forbes, Harvard Business Review, InsideHR, and other publications. She has been a featured speaker at American Marketing Association conferences, Microsoft Modern Workplace, Predictive Analytics World, Growth Hacker TV, GigaOm, Google Analytics User Conference and more. In 15+ years as an analytics leader, she has had a $200M+ demonstrated impact on business. A gifted problem solver, she seeks out patterns and insights to drive change in her clients' organizations and impact top levers of business. She considers customer satisfaction, empowerment and positive engagement as the highest rewards, and dollar impact as a natural consequence. Her best seller book ‘Behind Every Good Decision’ is an actionable guide for business managers on data-driven decision-making through business analytics.

She has two master’s degrees with theses involving applied mathematics and statistics. A hiker, runner, and yogi, she lives in Sunnyvale, California.

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