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Technical Skills Required to become a data analyst ๐Ÿ˜„๐Ÿ‘‡

Tool 1: MS-Excel (Google sheets knowledge is a plus)

๐Ÿ‘‰ Lookups (vlookup, xlookup, hlookup and its use cases)
๐Ÿ‘‰ Pivot tables, Pivot charts
๐Ÿ‘‰ Power Query, Power Pivot
๐Ÿ‘‰ Conditional formatting
๐Ÿ‘‰ Various charts and its formatting
๐Ÿ‘‰ Basic VBA/Macro
๐Ÿ‘‰ Major Excel functions/formulas (text, numeric, logical functions)

Tool 2: SQL (with any one RDBMS tool)

๐Ÿ‘‰ Database fundamentals (primary key, foreign key, relationships, cardinality, etc.)
๐Ÿ‘‰ DDL, DML statements (commonly used ones)
๐Ÿ‘‰ Basic Select queries (single table queries)
๐Ÿ‘‰ Joins and Unions (multiple table queries)
๐Ÿ‘‰ Subqueries and CTEs
๐Ÿ‘‰ Window functions (Rank, DenseRank, RowNumber, Lead, Lag)
๐Ÿ‘‰ Views and Stored Procedures
๐Ÿ‘‰ SQL Server/MySQL/PostGreSQL (any one RDBMS)
๐Ÿ‘‰ Complete Roadmap for SQL

Tool 3: Power BI (equivalent topics in Tableau)

๐Ÿ‘‰ Power Query, Power Pivot (data cleaning and modelling)
๐Ÿ‘‰ Basic M-language and Intermediate DAX functions
๐Ÿ‘‰ Filter and row context
๐Ÿ‘‰ Measures and calculated columns
๐Ÿ‘‰ Data modelling basics (with best practices)
๐Ÿ‘‰ Types of charts/visuals (and its use cases)
๐Ÿ‘‰ Bookmarks, Filters/Slicers (for creating buttons/page navigation)
๐Ÿ‘‰ Advanced Tooltips, Drill through feature
๐Ÿ‘‰ Power BI service basics (schedule refresh, license types, workspace roles, etc.)
๐Ÿ‘‰ Power BI Interview Questions

Tool 4: Python (equivalent topics in R)

๐Ÿ‘‰ Python basic syntax
๐Ÿ‘‰ Python libraries/IDEs (Jupyter notebook)
๐Ÿ‘‰ Pandas
๐Ÿ‘‰ Numpy
๐Ÿ‘‰ Matplotlib
๐Ÿ‘‰ Scikitlearn

You may learn a combination of any 3 of these tools to secure an entry-level role and then upskill on the 4th one after getting a job.

โžก Excel + SQL + Power BI/ Tableau + Python/ R

So, in my learning series, I will focus on these tools mostly.

If we get time, I'll also try to cover other essential Topics like Statistics, Data Portfolio, etc.

Obviously everything will be free of cost.

Stay tuned for free learning

Share with credits: https://t.me/sqlspecialist

Hope it helps :)
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