Top skills you need to be a Data Analyst

We all have heard this quote “Data is the new oil” . Companies nowadays are investing heavily into their data infrastructure and softwares like never before. According to various surveys the need for data experts within a company will continue to grow for next few decades. But what is the current trend of this ongoing growth, well within the last one decade companies invested a lot into creating their data infrastructure creating new data pipelines into various big data softwares and cloud service providers. within this softwares and tech advancements one thing that has remained constant is the need to analyze this data and derive insights quickly and efficiently.

Data analyst play a very important role here because they are responsible for understanding the data and the requirements of the analysis , create various analysis and present to insights to the stakeholders. Lets review the important steps that are required for the data analysis

1. Requirements gathering and Identifying the key deliverables
2. Creating the project plan and setting achievable deadlines
3. Analyze the data and create various visualizations to explain the analysis
4. Update the dashboard and the backend queries based on received feedback.

Now Lets review the important skills or tech softwares that one requires to follow the above mentioned steps of data analysis.

1. Excel
2. Python
3. Sql
4. Cloud Service provider

Also watch the video to understand the key skills required to be a data analyst in detail.