From the course: Learning Data Science: Ask Great Questions
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Identify question types
From the course: Learning Data Science: Ask Great Questions
Identify question types
- If you run an effective question meeting, then you'll likely get a lot of good questions. That's a good thing. Remember, you want your team to be panning for gold. They should be going through dozens of questions before they find a few that they want to explore. The more ideas you can expose, the better. Then you can decide which ones are best to explore. Just like the early miners who panned for gold, you want to be able to sort out the gold from the sand. You want to know how to separate good questions from those that you can leave behind. A good way to do this is to think about different question types. Each type has its own benefits and challenges. If you're the research lead, you can help the team identify which question type would lead to the best insights. Some question types are easier to find than others. The first types are open and closed questions. An open question is debated and it has no set answer. A closed question has a concrete answer. Think about the running shoe…
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