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The Data Point #3: Thinking Like an Analyst

The Data Point #3: Thinking Like an Analyst

It's a lot more than just coding SQL all day

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Matt Mike
Mar 25, 2023
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A common misconception in analytics is that you’ll sit around having fun with tools all day, putting together awesome projects.

Writing code, building dashboards, etc.

While this is one great element of the job, this is not THE job.

To thrive as an analyst, you need to think like an analyst.

This involves a few things:

  1. Lots of communicati…

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