Skills/scope for analytics role?

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qsyf71

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Nov 7, 2017 9 Comments

I wanted to know from experienced folks here what are the “must have” skills for a data analyst role? I’m looking to shift career, learning regressions and using R in my spare time currently.

Also, where would maximum analytics jobs be? (I’m in New England) Thanks.

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  • Amazon
    oLwg36

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    oLwg36
    SQL or to query tables is considered a great skill to posses. Req gathering, data validation techniques,acquiring business acumen(comes with time spent) and at the added bonus is to visualize the data in a reporting tool.
    Nov 7, 2017 4
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      qsyf71

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      qsyf71
      OP
      I have worked in sales/marketing for 6 years as a manager earlier, I’m hoping some of the experience gained there will help me in that regard. Thank you answering the questions!
      Nov 7, 2017
    • Amazon
      oLwg36

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      oLwg36
      Yep. There are plenty jobs to go arnd. Also, let’s say you master SQL and a reporting tool, it also opens up doors for new roles such as Data engineers, BI specialists and such.
      Nov 7, 2017
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    ButWhy?

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    ButWhy?
    If you want to stay in New England, I'd target Healthcare companies as the best income to Work/Life balance ratio.

    Learn SQL for sure, Python and R are definite pluses for Data science roles, SAS is on the way out but is the pre-clinical data analysis standard, Tableau is the most transferable visualization skill.
    Nov 7, 2017 0
  • Intel
    Solenya

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    Solenya
    Once you get past basic SQL queries and joins what else is there to know that would be useful?
    Nov 9, 2017 1
    • Meggitt / Eng
      anon10101

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       anon10101
      Case statements,window functions,date manipulation, stored procedures
      Nov 9, 2017
  • Meggitt / Eng
    anon10101

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     anon10101
    Sql,python(pandas,sklearn,seaborn) or r, js, tableau
    Nov 7, 2017 0