4 Key Topics you should know to Prepare for Data Analytics Jobs

Mithun Kumar

If You are Preparing for Data Analytics Job You Come to the Right Place

Data Analytics is a process of analyzing raw data. It is the process of data collection, transformation and organization of data to find trends and answer questions about your needs. It is a systematic computational analysis of data. Generally, the process includes inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modelling data with the aim of discovering insight from large-scale dataset to draw conclusion, make predictions, and support decision-making. Coursera reports with the reference from Burning Glass: Labor Insight (Last 12 Months: Feb. 1, 2020 - Jan. 31, 2021) that “There are 337,400 U.S. job openings in data analytics with a $67,900 average entry-level salary.” Just think about this information- It is only in USA, think about global requirement. It’s amazing! This article is super informative to prepare for your data analytics career. You should know 4 key topics to prepare for data analytics jobs and this are-

1.       Data Analytics Application Area

2.       Data Analytics Job Positions

3.       Required Skills to Get Data Analytics Jobs

4.       Platforms and Tools for Data Analytics

 

Data Analytics Application Area

Data analytics is a first growing industry. Now we have multi-source data that is a great resource in this modern age. Here information is power. There are several application areas of data analytics and here you can find a list below:

·         Business Development

·         Healthcare and Medicine

·         Agriculture

·         Military

·         Security

·         Environment

·         Space Research

·         Disaster Management

·         Emergency Planning

·         Risk Assessment

·         City Planning

·         Manufacturing

·         Education

·         Transportation

·         Logistics and Delivery

·         Web Search or Internet Web Results

·         And so on

 

Data Analytics Job Positions

Currently data analytics job is high in demand than any other software related professions around the world and this demand is rising every year. If you want to get high salaries with better career prospects then data analytics profession will be best suited for you. Here is a list of data analytics jobs below you can find around the world for working both physically and remotely:

·         Data Analyst

·         Data Analyst Lead

·         Data Scientist

·         Data Engineer

·         Data Architect

·         Machine Learning Engineer/Scientist

·         Data Analysis Officer

·         GIS Specialist

·         Business Intelligence Analyst

·         Marketing Analyst

·         Data Specialist

·         Data Manager

·         Intelligence Analyst

·         Intelligence Officer

·         Data Officer

·         Quantitative Analyst

·         Programme Associate (KIM & Data Analysis)

·         Research Analyst

·         Operations Analyst

·         Data Analytics Consultant

·         Project Manager

·         MIS & Data Management Specialist

·         Business Planning Analyst

·         System Analyst

·         And so on

 

These job positions may for entry level and gradually based on your working performance you can be promoted into executive level jobs in different companies and organizations.

If you choose a career in the data analytics domain then you can find this job is mix of technical and non-technical work. Sometimes, you could find the programming for data analytics work can be tough and you have to design high level machine learning algorithms based on your company requirement. You have to deal with disordered data and sometimes your hiring companies may not understand your skills, abilities and expertise. Though, your hiring companies know that large-scale dataset or big data is an asset if that can be handled properly and discover insight from the data for informed decision making but sometimes they may not effectively integrate data analyst experts into their companies or organizations. Despite of these types of challenges you can be satisfied paying high salaries with better career prospects around the world both in physical or remote jobs.

 

Required Skills to Get Data Analytics Job

A Data Analyst in Data Analytics job use different tools, techniques, platforms for different goals of their companies and organizations. Their skills, knowledge and expertise are at the intersection of computer science, statistics, mathematics, business and social science. Data Analytics professionals can apply their expertise in different domains. You need to gain some important and required skills those will prove that you are able to be a data analyst professional in your prospective company or organization. Here you kind find a list of skill set below that is your weapon to enter the job market:   

·         Spreadsheet

·         Data Cleansing

·         Data Analysis

·         Data Visualization (DataViz)

·         SQL

·         Questioning

·         Decision-Making

·         Problem Solving

·         Metadata

·         Data Collection

·         Data Ethics

·         Sample Size Determination

 

After gaining these fundamental skills in data science you should apply for the jobs.

You can get the facilities to choose your work environment whether you intend to work as a data analytics professionals in physical office or remote job working from home. If you want join in a company to work physically than you have to earn minimum a Bachelor degree with expertise in data analytics with specialty in your desired application domain. A Master degree is better to get high paid data analytics jobs. If you want to get research and development (R&D) jobs in big companies like IBM, Google, Facebook or a job in academia then a PhD degree is the weapon to hunt the job. Another option is you find your job to work remotely from home. This is an independent job and you can find several projects offering in different freelancing market place like upwork, freelancer or others. Here you can get flexibility- you do not need to have your higher degree. After gaining required skills form anywhere or joining some online courses you start your working. You have to send proposal to the clients who offer the jobs and reviewing your profile and after a discussion clients offer you the jobs to compete in a specific deadline.

 

Platforms and Tools You have to Learn

Data analytics is an emerging industry and several companies and organizations are being launched each year. To prepare for data analytics career you have to learn how to use some platforms and tools primarily these are Presentations, Spreadsheets, SQL, Tableau and R or Python Programming. To sustain in this emerging industries you have to be skilled in advanced technologies, tools and platforms.  Here you can find a list the5 best data analytics and business intelligence platforms and tools below:

1.       Microsoft Power BI

2.       Oracle Analytics Cloud

3.       IBM Cognos Analytics

4.       ThoughtSpot

5.       Qlik

 

You can read details about this 5 best platforms and tools here.

In conclusion, I can assure you that if you choose to build your career in data analytics industry then you have chosen right industry. Because this industry is very first-growing industries and every sectors are generating multi-source data. They need to handle this big data properly to the insight for informed decision making. And finally, they need you !

Author

Mithun Kumar

Remote Sensing Specialist & GIS Developer

Founder, Analytic

Scientific Officer & Head, Aeronautics & Space Applications division

and

Founder & President, Space and Environment Research Center (SERC), Bangladesh.

Founder & Director, Project Origin 

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