How can I become well versed in data analytics? I’m trying to upskill as fast as possible and with limited bandwidth since my project is 80+ hrs per week at the moment. I have a computer science background, I just want to feel confident saying that I have data analytics skills. I’m planning on taking a SQL course, Tableau certification, and maybe a financial analysis course. Any additional suggestions? I want to go beyond just static Excel and make useful dynamic dashboards.

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focus on sql, data modeling and achitecture. BI app certifications are the easiest part. Important is how to model and retrieve the data

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SQL is pretty basic imho.

Analytics is really broad, pick a Specialization.

Data Engineering
Data Science
Visualization
And some smaller niches I guess, with intersections between all of them

SQL and Python/R are languages that are required for basically every specialization I just mentioned above. If you only know SQL/Python but can't specialize you'll pretty much be stuck as a Data Analyst or in a Reporting role.

Certs help too.

Those aren't bad roles but tend not to pay as well as the others I listed unless you're at MBB I presume?

I'm an analytics consultant with experience in all of the above, but specializing in data architecture.

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