Data Analyst 101 - Blog by skchavali

Apple Watch enabled monitoring the data throughout the day and data is captured automatically instead of manual data entry. It was possible to monitor performance on a daily/weekly basis and stay motivated or take corrective actions to get back on track. It took 6 months of data before indicators are shown.

Applying this example as a framework to a business (department or overall) scenario:

Identify what data can be measured automatically on daily or weekly basis in an automated way based on how you operate(like website visits)
Set a realistic goal (based on your business type, identify what is a realistic goal)
Take actions to achieve goal on regular basis (run campaigns to attract visitors to the site)
Monitor streak of achieving goals (how frequently are you meeting goals)

To achieve this in a strategic mode, identify one area at a time.

Digital transformation has made it easy for any organization to measure their activity and convert that data into useful metrics. Just like fitness data is critical to your personal wellbeing, operational data of business is also important for business wellbeing. Recording data as business is happening will improve data quality and reduce errors when data is manually recorded after a delay. Automate this as much as possible to reduce gaming the data.

Dashboard Usability

Sat, 19 Dec 2020 13:58:12 -0800

Watch the video for examples to pick different visualizations on dashboards. It depends on amount of data you are going to show too.

Recommended Websites

Sun, 06 Dec 2020 21:29:04 -0800

This post will list websites that will be useful to track as you gain more understanding of trends in Data Analytics

Data Literacy (Recommend for Everyone)

Understand how to present information in easy to understand Infographics by looking at samples on these sites. Subscribe to receive daily notification from these sites so that you can see variety of visualizations related to recent trends.

Visual Capitalist

Statista

Learning SQL

Fri, 20 Nov 2020 22:01:59 -0800

Learn SQL with following tutorial on W3Schools. This tutorial allows you to learn basics of SQL and test yourself without actually installing a Database. Highly recommended for Beginners

https://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp

Practice till you can clear this quiz also hosted on W3Schools: https://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_quiz.asp

Video: Data Modeling in Excel

Sun, 08 Nov 2020 10:17:09 -0800

Career Advice: Skill Requirements

Fri, 06 Nov 2020 22:20:04 -0800

While preparing for a career in Data Analytics, the requirements vary based on a specific role you are interested in pursuing. Nikhil has contributed following visual based on his perspective. Hope you will find this useful and pick a role based on your competency in respective skills.

Podcast: CDO Battlescars

Sat, 31 Oct 2020 12:41:15 -0700

If you are looking for some inspiration please follow and listen to relevant podcast episodes here.

This is hosted by Sandeep Uttamchandani. "The motivation of this podcast series is to give back to the data community the hard-learned lessons that I and my peer data leaders have gathered over the years!"

Links

P odcast

Data for Humanity initiat ive (providing data insights for non-profit organizations)

Datasets for use - MySQL

Sun, 25 Oct 2020 17:18:09 -0700

This post will include list of mySQL databases that you can restore for practicing your data analysis skills.

Please click link to download dataset: Books Data

Please check this article for some suggestions on how to use this dataset

Please check the following article for instructions on how to restore a dataset from backup

Restoring mySQL backup