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10 Lessons I’ve Learned Working as a Healthcare Data Analyst

The motto is — learn, explore, experience, and share

Rashi Desai
7 min readJan 29, 2023
Photo by Karla Rivera on Unsplash

Hi! I am Rashi and I work as a Data Analytics & Reporting Consultant with a leading health insurance company based out of Chicago. Before starting my first full-time job, I interned with PepsiCo for about almost a year while in school, and from the time I became familiar with the word data & analytics, I have only been learning every day.

No two days are the same working with healthcare data and I love that. Every day puts you through a good challenge. It would now be almost two years since I started working full-time and I have gathered experience & maturity as a data professional, established best practices for myself and my team, and more importantly, learned from the mistakes that data analysts can be vulnerable to.

From collaborating with cross-functional teams and peers with years of experience with data and the organization, here are my ten learnings, in no particular order, that shall only evolve me further and I wanted to share those with my Medium community.

1. Empower your team & be a visionary

It is not only a manager’s job to keep the team spirit high. You must look out for your teammates and peers. For starters, ask…

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Rashi Desai
Rashi Desai

Written by Rashi Desai

An Analytics Consultant from Chicago & Top 100 writer on Medium. Everyone loves a good story & I tell mine with data!

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