Data & Finance for Work & Life
Fifteen years ago, most companies didn’t hire data analysts, and only a small number of universities offered degrees programs for it. But in the past decade, the data analyst position has grown in popularity, with advances in programming languages and educational programs available each year. On the other hand, many high caliber data analysts don’t …
How to Become a Data Analyst in 7 Steps (With or Without a Degree) Read More »
In the business world, the ultimate goal for any organization is to deliver products that fulfill customer needs. But the difference between what we think customers need and the reality is often staggering, and decision makers can fall into a number of process traps or miscalculations about what to provide. That’s where the role of …
What does a business analyst do? (& The Skills to Do It) Read More »
Database analysts are the people who keep databases functioning well over time. They solve a problem: though most non-technical people never see it, databases decay with use. New systems, updates, and file types pose a constant threat to a company’s use of data, and database analysts protect against these threats. In a sentence, database analysts …
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While you may be familiar with skills in a role as business analyst, technical BAs need an additional set of rigorous hard and soft skills to succeed in most organizations. Like traditional BAs, they need the essential communication, requirements elicitation, and documentation skills. But companies also require that technical BAs have strong working knowledge of …
It may sound strange to have a dictionary for data since a dictionary is data, but these metadata repositories are an essential element to maintaining and communicating the structure of any underlying database. In short, a data dictionary describe a table’s columns based on common traits (i.e name, definition, data type) within another table. Admins …
What is a data dictionary? A Simple & Thorough Overview Read More »
In short, the hard skills a business analyst needs are data analysis, computer and software fluency, and documentation. More specifically, BAs must know how to use Microsoft Excel and Tableau, know technical terminology, code in SQL, and code in Python & R. Let’s look more closely at each of these technical skills to see how …
