Above The AIThe Score
[ I ]The Score

Is a data analystabove the AI?

Below the line: work that can be generated. Above it: the objective, the authority to act, the evidence, and who owns the exception. This is the typical data analyst week, split along that line. Yours will differ. That is the point of checking.

No link, or a private profile? instead.

15%

Above the AI

With fifteen percent of your week above the line, you are largely acting as a human translator for database systems. Most of your days are spent on retrieval and formatting rather than steering the business direction.

Read as: someone who answers business questions with SQL and charts.

[ II ] The week, split

Above the line

15% of the week

Evaluating evidence quality for leadership reports

15%

Protecting your reputation by holding back the half-baked metrics that make no logical sense.

Below the line

85% of the week

Rerunning and tweaking SQL queries

25%

An expensive way to act as the interface between a database and a slightly impatient colleague.

Building and maintaining dashboards

20%

Crafting visual layouts that everyone asked for but only three people will actually open.

Reconciling conflicting system numbers

15%

Playing referee between two databases that both claim to hold the absolute truth.

Drafting the monthly insights summary

15%

Translating obvious chart spikes into business prose that sounds profound.

Fielding ad-hoc slack requests for data

10%

Answering questions that could have been solved by looking at the dashboards you built last month.

[ III ] Move the number

This number can move.

Drafting the monthly insights summary is the easiest below-line task to hand off first. A system can easily write the first draft of what changed in the metrics month-on-month. This frees you up to spend more time deciding which of those changes actually matter to the business.

That is a build, not a discipline problem, and it does not need AI expertise in house: Above The AI brings the system, the person keeps the objective, the authority, the evidence and the exception.

[ IV ] Your number, portable

This card travels with the link. The sentence ships ready to paste, and a low number pastes best as a dare.

Share card: 15% above the AI

Drafted in one pass from what you gave us. A toy, with one serious idea inside: the line is real even when the number is rough. Nothing is stored, and no name appears anywhere, unless you publish your page yourself.