Scott Page, an author and Professor of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan was a guest on The Knowledge Project podcast earlier this year and discussed the need for data analysts to be bilingual. What he meant was, they not only need to understand how data works and its limitations, they must fully understand the industry in which data is being derived: two very different skills. First off, understanding the residential real estate market and the multitude of factors that impact value is extremely difficult; I’m personally updating my mental models daily. Complex statistical models are only as good as the data in them, and Canada has a new home data problem.