One of the challenges facing data analysis is that there are multiple domains, industries and tools

used in the data analyst industry.

So, attempting to master every single data analysis tool in the workplace may be futile.

What is helpful is a strong understanding of the data analysts roles, duties, tasks, responsibilities
and the techniques or principles commonly employed in data analyst jobs

The Data Analysts Job Description

The data analysts’ job description frequently includes importing, cleaning, transforming,
validating or modeling data with the purpose of understanding or making conclusions from the
data for decision making purposes.

The data analysts job description may include presenting data in charts, graphs, tables, designing
and developing relational databases for collecting data and in some organizations it also includes
building or designing data input or data collection screens.

The data analyst may have to write Data Definition Language or Data Manipulation Language
SQL commands, be responsible for improving data quality and for designing or presenting
conclusions gained from analyzing data using statistical tools like Microsoft Excel, SAS, SPSS
and others.

Data analysts work in diverse domains including healthcare or social sciences and they come
from a diverse background.

Some data analysts have backgrounds in technology, information management, relational

database design and development, business intelligence, data mining or statistics.

What is important is not the specific tool like SAS or SPSS but the investigative mindset or
techniques that can be used with any specific tool.

It is important not to get tool minded but to get process minded. For example, it’s important to
understand the concept of designing a business report because you can learn implement that
report in Crystal Reports or SQL Server Reporting Services or even with Microsoft Access
Reports.

A good data analyst can convey his or her mastery of data analysis concepts at the job interview
and direct the interviewers to a favorable conclusion.

For example, let’s say that a data analyst job description stresses SQL Server Reporting Services
skills and you only have knowledge of Microsoft Access.

What you can do is let the job interviewer know that you have strong data analysis skills and will
be comfortable working on new tools. You can achieve this by stressing your data analysis
experience by talking about your data validation experience, discussing how you have analyzed
large datasets, drawn your own inferences and presented them successfully to management using
a reporting tool. Then you emphasize the strength or advantages of your data analysis
background and repeat that you are willing to learn the data analysis tool used by the employer in
question.

So, a solid understand of data analysis techniques or processes will help reduce the need for you
to learn every data analysis tool in the market!

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