How To Get Started As A Data Analyst

moonchild

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Data analyst is an on demand skill worldwide, as a lot of people are starting to shift their attention into this career, a lot of business are in need of quality data analysts, as data becomes the central focus in a lot of organizations, especially in making key decisions like customer metrics, advertisement and other important aspects of businesses.

To get started as a data analyst there are different things you will have to learn, the first and foremost skill is to statistics, you have to be fairly good in statistics to be able to be a data analyst even though a lot of the mental work will be done by a computer, it is important to know how all of the puzzle comes together in the case of debugging or what not.

Secondly, you have to learn a query language which is basically how you will process a data, in data analysis you have to make a table and use a query language to select data and generally manipulate it to get desired results.

You also have to learn other tools and software that makes the work easier like Tableau, PowerBi and Spreadsheets, you can watch a crash course on youtube to get more idea on how it works.
 
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