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

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. 

Recommended Article for data analysts learning Python and SQL

Full article written by Sanjana is posted here 

A data analyst or data scientist get lots of opportunity to work on Python and SQL. Python with its enormous library support provides data analyst with a magic wand to manipulate and visualize data. Likewise SQL helps us store millions of records and establish relationships with other tables for optimal data management. There are scenarios that require a Python program to directly load data into a back-end database. For example, if a data frame is dynamically modified periodically or at random instances, uploading the csv file for each data update into the database is not feasible. In this post, we will go through how to integrate a Python program with MySQL database.

PowerBI from Microsoft provides Visualization features to convert data to action. 

PowerBI Training Links

Qlik Sense can be used to use create Visualizations (Charts and Dashboards). Please use this link to free videos to learn how to connect to data and build charts/dashboards

Qlik Sense Training

Download free version from thispage

While basic data analytics can be done by using data in CSV or Excel files but most common data analytics in organizations will require querying data from databases.

As beginner gaining database skills will help you hit the ground running. Following step by step tutorial can teach you skills to understand database concepts.

SQL Tutorial on W3 Schools

Installing mySQL

We will be providing datasets that you can setup in mySQL database and practice your skills

Key Point in referenced Article

"To that third point, data analysts teach technical courses on writing SQL and visualizing data in Tableau. Kalb teaches one about data literacy, including pitfalls to avoid in data interpretation, and on how to be a “data translator” and "data storyteller."

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Chief Data Officers Priorities for 2020 

Note from us: Most of the data in companies is in databases and writing queries to extract right data  is first skill and then showing the in simple visualization using Tableau is quickest way to show value. Practice your skills enough to be competent in these skills. 

Becoming a data analyst requires learning data visualization techniques that will be required for variety of business users

Learning these skills requires datasets that are easy to understand before building nice dashboards for business users

If you are finding it difficult to find simple datasets that will help you learn these skills, you can find sample datasets on this site or build your own similar to this. Modify these datasets so that can relate to it

1. Personal Expenses: We all try to analyze how we are spending our money. Looking at data by expense category and time is always important for better financial planning.
2. Professional experience: We can articulate our professional experience if we can quantify our experience: Number of projects, average duration etc.

Please click download Datasets below (Registration required to download datasets)