Question

An important player in the Analytics process is the Data Analyst. But what exactly does a Data Analyst do? To find out go online and review the major job boards. Find at least three job postings for a Data Analyst on three different job boards.

1. What is a Data Analyst?
2. What are the qualifications needed to be a Data Analyst?
3. What is the commonality in the job postings?
4. Based on your observations, would you be interested in a job as a Data Analyst?

Answer 1

Data Analyst do: -

• To collect the data and then give an explanation about that data.
• To establish business needs work with the management team.
• To identify the pattern of data sets.
• To analyze the result and reporting to the relevant members.

Data Analyst:-

A data analyst is the one who collects the data, processes on that data, and performs statistical analyses of data to get a meaningful result.

Qualifications needed to be a data analyst:-

A person who wants to be a data analyst needs a Bachelor's degree with knowledge of statistical and analytical skills like Mathematics, Finance, Economics, Computer Science.

The commonality in job postings:-

• Must have an excellent understanding of SQL, MS Excel, and Python/R.
• Should have hands-on experience in processing huge datasets, Proactiveness, listening skills, service orientation, Integrity.
• Work closely with the team to understand their requirement to ensure information/reports on a priority basis.
• Prepare daily, weekly, monthly reports.
• Sync up & collaborate with Multiple Stakeholders to complete daily critical tasks.
• Improve existing and design new MIS report for making informed decision making.
• Analysis and collecting reports for multiple functions.
• Create, maintain, and improve upon new and existing reports in order to extract actionable insights and make recommendations that will drive decisions across the business.
• Extract, transform, cleanse, and synthesize data from a variety of data sources.
• Validate and own accuracy and integrity of data results.

So, yes this is the whole idea about data analyst.

Yes, I am interested in a job as data analyst because I am good with a numbers and collecting the data, along with this I like market research.