The data “will speak for itself.” If you have spent any time in the data analytics world you have heard this phrase thrown around. But is it true? Often the people who say the data will speak for itself are the ones who are closest to the data. For them it might be true. EHS analyst, business analysts, and other disciplines that focus their daily efforts on data collection, cleaning, preparation, and analysis are closest to the data. However, for employees of departments whose focus is not data analysis, the data can look like it is speaking Italian instead of English.