How to get into an analytical role? A complete roadmap!

The demand for strong and competent data analytics skills will continue to be on the rise as firms struggle with understanding and effectively utilising the invaluable data collected over the years, according to the report.

The World Economic Forum predicts that by 2022, data scientists and analysts will become the number one emerging role in the world.
All thanks to economictimes article.

To start with any analytics role, you just need to be curious about the data rather than focusing on learning any tool or completing a random course.

Be it Data Analytics, Business Intelligence or any Analytics role. your work would be around data collection, data cleaning, analysis and presentation.

Other requirements are just a bunch of easy to moderate tools to help you in discovering actionable insights from data and to present it to stakeholders. Storytelling is as important as insights.

Tools that will be useful are -

Advanced MS Excel with data-analysis add-on
SQL (for database querying)
Python (or R, whichever suits, is a step after MS Excel, for any custom statistical analysis)
MS PowerPoint (for presentation)
Power BI or Tableau (for dashboards if needed)

All these things are easy to learn once you have a curious mindset for finding rich insights from data.

You can reach out to me on linkedin for any doubt.
All the best for your career journey!

Happy Analytics!