Become a Data Analyst (From a 20 Year Data Pro)

[@AnthonySmoak]

Are there any hard skills you think I'm missing? Agree or disagree let me know down in the comments. Thanks for watching! Read my post on this subject: Keys for Success as a Data Analyst: bit.ly/3sohkzM

[@CalicoCooperFan]

Good video. I agree with the tools you suggested people learn and the priority you laid out for them to learn them in. Also appreciate you calling out the soft skills people need.op I've been in IT for nearly 30 years and currently manage a team of analytics analysts. I've been creating presentations, presenting to senior leadership, managing projects, managing our clients, and managing our project portfolio. I'd like to get my hands dirty in the technology again. So, I'm digging in to most of the tools you mentioned. My team is well versed in them. I think one of the things I'd add to your list is that good analysts have a lot of curiosity about data. You need to look at it from different angles, turn it inside out, and ask a ton of questions of the data. Great video.

[@AnthonySmoak]

You sound like a solid technical manager with lots of good experience so I appreciate you chiming in. I agree with you 100% that as an analyst you need to have data curiosity. Often times we are the data experts but not the domain experts, so we need to know where to point the domain experts' attention when something in the data looks "different". Great comment, thanks for sharing.

[@SixSigmaData]

The man, the myth, the legend!

[@AnthonySmoak]

You're too kind!

[@pink9016]

Thank you great content 👏

[@AnthonySmoak]

Much appreciated!

[@arcane888]

Hello Mr. Smoak. Love your videos. You mentioned how an MBA could help you level up. I’m a Nigerian engineering student in my finals and I plan to work overseas as a data analyst. The cheapest way for me to secure a move is via a postgrad scholarship in my degree. Should I shoot for an MBA (less scholarship opportunities since I’m coming from an engineering background)?

[@AnthonySmoak]

Thanks for watching and liking the content Joshua. It's difficult for me to say if you should pursue an engineering degree or an MBA. That comes down to your personal preference (do you want to manage or remain technical)? However, the top MBA schools require a few years of work experience first before enrollment. Without work experience you will not be able to add as much to class discussions. Also most MBA programs do not care what your undergraduate degree is in as long as you have solid work experience and decent test scores.

[@Hofflee5]

Hello Anthony, I had a question for a video you posted a while back pertaining to stacked donut charts in tableau. I would love to know how you copied and pasted the index from the columns into the size tab to create three different sized pie charts. In the video it appears that you clicked on the index in the columns section from the top of the page and dragged the index into the size tab. Whenever I attempt to mimic what you did in the video I always lose the index in the columns section which results in me losing two pie charts and then I have one pie chart remaining. I would really appreciate any help you can offer. Thanks!

[@AnthonySmoak]

Hi James, if you're using a PC try to hold down CTRL while you drag the pill.

[@DanielWeikert]

Do you know how to calculate the slope and show it in tableau.e.g. take superstore dataset do a moving average across time (month on x axis, Moving Average Sales on y axis) How to calculate the slope here (especially when date is on one dimension) Any ideas? Thanks

[@AnthonySmoak]

Slope of trend line formulas community.tableau.com/s/question/0D54T00000G54r3SAB/covariance-trend-lines-correlation-coefficient-r-and-rsquared?_ga=2.102662401.1624417689.1659119939-2050428793.1538660773