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DATA ANALYST SKILLS - 8 SKILLS YOU NEED TO GET A DATA ANALYST JOB


Top 1: Microsoft xl

You believe or not Microsoft XL is one of the most important skill for data analyst to analyse small data analysis. Excel functions that every data analyst must know

1.Sort

2.Filter

3.SUMIF function

4.Pivot Tables

5.Text Formulas

6.IF formulas

7.Charts

8.Conditional Formatting

Top 2: SQL Language

Structured Query Language is the one of the programming languages used to

1.Fetch the data and do some operations

2. Data exploration

3. Data collections and to analyse the data stored in database.

SQL tool is a gateway to get a data analyst job

Top 3: Visualization tool

There are many visualization tools available. In that most popular tools are Microsoft Power BI and Tableau.

If you atleast good at one visualization tool, others you can easily learn.

Top 4: Communication & Presentation skills

Not only for data analyst, communication and presentation skills are most important skills for corporate jobs or MNC jobs. Often you have discuss with other teams and to present the data points to others.

Top 5: Domain knowledge

Domain knowledge is the most important skill to understand your work. Even in many companies callfor they mentioning domain, for example openings for Financial data analyst, sales data analyst. To get a job in a particular Company you have knowledge in their domain.

Top 6: Programming

Programming is not a necessary skill but it could be a added advantage. PHYTHON and R programming are most popular among data analyst.

Top 7: Math & Statistics

Basic knowledge of mathematics is enough, you no need to be a super genius. In statistics you should know basics about inferential statistics and descriptive statistics to work on real time problems.

Top 8: Problem solving

Is a general skill you can improve. You should able to provide different problem solutions.




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