Data analyst roles are among the fastest-growing jobs in the world. Many industries, including technology, healthcare, transportation, and construction, hire data analysts now more than ever. The advancement in technological power has led to an overwhelming amount of data being created daily.
This vast volume of data and the evolution of data privacy and protection regulations call for a data analyst who can strictly devise, implement, and comply with the data privacy protection policies at all levels of an organization.
In this module, you reviewed several organizational roles a data analyst can fill. Additionally, you have spent the last four weeks learning to identify and mitigate risks associated with fairness, bias, transparency, explainability, and accountability. For this assignment, review these roles and select the top three roles you think are most directly and significantly responsible for managing data access and regulatory compliance.
Prompt
In your response, be sure to include the following:
• Describe three specific roles that directly control data protection and regulatory compliance. Specifically, include the following in your response:
o What are the responsibilities of someone who would perform these roles?
o Why do analysts require a much more in-depth knowledge of regulatory standards than the others? What would that specialized body of knowledge be?
• Describe several of the best practices from your reading for applying data protection policies that help to mitigate risks associated with fairness, bias mitigation strategies, transparency, explainability, and accountability.
Consider the following in your response:
o What best practices would professionals in these roles consider for regulating data usage and maintaining company policies associated with fairness, bias risks, transparency, explainability, and accountability?
o How can analysts ensure transparency, explainability, and accountability in data processes and decisions? Based on the reading, what strategies would you commonly recommend?
o What resources or regulations (if any) should a data analyst in these roles use to inform decision making?
• Explain how a data analyst in these roles would collaborate with other data professionals to maintain data security fairness, bias mitigation, transparency, explainability, and accountability. Consider the following in
your response:
o How can professionals work together to ensure and maintain data security,
fairness, bias mitigation, transparency, explainability, and accountability?
What to Submit
This assignment must be 1 to 2 pages in length using one-inch margins,
double spacing, and Times New Roman. You should support your responses
by referencing appropriate resources from credible sources in the field. All
references must be cited in APA format. Consult the Shapiro Library APA
Style Guide for more information on references.