From data quality specialist to data analyst
12 of the 36 essential skills of a data analyst are already essential for a data quality specialist — about 33% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from data quality specialist in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 12
- skills carry over
- 24
- would be new
- 33%
- of the target job covered
- 36
- essential skills of a data analyst
What a data analyst does
Data analysts import, inspect, clean, transform, validate, model, or interpret collections of data with regard to the business goals of the company. They ensure that the data sources and repositories provide consistent and reliable data. Data analysts use different algorithms and IT tools as demanded by the situation and the current data. They might prepare reports in the form of visualisations such as graphs, charts, and dashboards.
What carries over
12 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
What would be new
24 skillsEssential for a data analyst and not for a data quality specialist. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- analyse big data
- apply statistical analysis techniques
- business analytics
- business intelligence
- collect ICT data
- data engineering
- data mining
- data models
- data quality assessment
- data science
- data visualisation software
- digital data processing
- documentation types
- execute analytical mathematical calculations
- information categorisation
- information confidentiality
- information extraction
- integrate ICT data
- interpret current data
- perform data mining
- statistics
- unstructured data
- use databases
- visual presentation techniques
Other moves from data quality specialist
1 roles- data scientist11 skills in common
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