How can one get into data analytics?
Every institution, college, edtech is selling courses.. And every influencer is claiming it’s the next big thing. Any advice on where can a rookie start from to understand what entails being a data analyst! Where does one start if one wants to get into it?
Old saying goes that when every other mf is selling the same shit, then you better not buy that crap and walk away while you can
It was copywriting before chatgpt, now data is the new thing! I agree with u!
Karilyn Denver
Stealth
a year ago
Focus on data engineering and data manipulation, and do a couple of projects. With that you will land a job as an analyst. Rest will happen
NEVER take any paid courses. If you ask me as a recruiter, a course from one of these big ones is a small red flag for me. I prefer people working on some projects and really talking about it.
1. Learn SQL, pandas, pyspark really really well.
2. In order to do 1st better to pick a project and use your skills to achive the goals of the project.
It can be anything like eCommerce product ratings prediction & driver analysis. Don't just stop at prediction, but you have to think about driver analysis too. That's real analytics
3. Learn art of communicating your work. Talk business & problem statement again and again. Big portion of the interview lies here. In understanding how well you have understood business problem statement and how well you can further break it to build solutions
4. With above things you will be able to land an entry level job as analyst somewhere... Journey then begins. I seriously urge you to focus on engineering skills while at your job at the same time give equal importance to business knowledge & stakeholder management. They are no big deal but unless you plan on improving it, they won't improve...
Good luck
Do lots of Projects and share it on LinkedIn and GitHub.
Projects of each skill as well as collaboration of two tools.
Practice SQL questions on websites like Hackerank,StrataScratch and Leetcode