🗓️ Idiom: Data-Driven (adjective)
💬 Meaning
- Makes decisions based on facts and evidence.
- Uses reports, numbers, or data to guide work.
🧠 Example Sentences
- Our manager is very data-driven and always asks for the latest analytics before making a decision.
- She takes a data-driven approach to marketing, basing campaigns on customer behavior and engagement metrics.
- Being data-driven helps him judge projects with facts, not guesses.
🏛️ Origin
The phrase comes from the rise of analytics and business intelligence in the late 20th century. “Data-driven” originally described processes or strategies guided by data, and it later became common to describe people who rely on facts and metrics to make decisions in the workplace.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
He is very ____________, always checking numbers and reports before acting.
Answer
data-driven
2. Choose the correct answer:
A data-driven person is someone who:
a) Makes decisions based on feelings and intuition
b) Uses facts, evidence, and metrics to guide decisions
c) Avoids making any decisions
Answer
b) Uses facts, evidence, and metrics to guide decisions
3. Change the sentence using “data-driven”:
“She always bases her project plans on measurable results and statistics.”
Answer
She is very data-driven.
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Rob is a CELTA qualified English teacher with 15 years of international experience. He has a BSc and PGDip from Loughborough and St Andrews universities in the UK. He has taught in Thailand and Saudi Arabia and now works with professionals worldwide.
