Next Step?
30 y/o bachelors in business admin. Currently working as an analyst in SF. Use SQL to pull data and run with it. Creating dashboards and slide decks using Tableau/Power BI. Make actionable insights on data and pinpoints metrics to monitor. Technical Skills: SQL, Tableau, Power BI, Excel Financial skills: Revenue projection, Budgeting, Forecasting Total compensation package ~$105K. 3YOE. Looking to expand my technical skill set and further my career, any advice? Programs I should learn? R? Python? What kinds of roles am I looking at down the line?
How about product management. One very imp skill for a good product manager is that she/he should understand data. Given u have that experience it is worth exploring. You can join Product school and network with people. I think entry level product manager are paid well in most of the companies.
Thanks- I’ll look into it. Don’t product managers usually have MBAs?
No, product managers come from a variety of backgrounds.
python over R if you were to pick one Next step can be working towards data scientist
What about PySpark?
if you already familiar with python then pyspark could be next step. But it really depends what you want to heads towards. Pyspark for building data pipelines, or learn scikit for machine learning models