“Let’s keep slicing the data until we find something that supports our assumption.”
To examine something in greater detail. The act of making the data team pull five more reports before the business team ignores them all. A polite way of saying, "These numbers don’t fit my narrative—give me different ones." Always leads to another request for a more "granular view."
"We need to drill down on this data, which is code for ‘prepare 20 extra slides for no reason.’"
