Data analyst for a construction company: where to look?

The general manager of a local builder wanted my advice the other morning — how to find a data analyst. I'm sure a lot of small-business managers would like to know, too.

"I don't know what I don't know," he says, "but I know that I don't know." He's been trying to convince the boss that they had to see what the pile of data that had accumulated over the…