From the course: Preparing to Get a Job in Data Analytics
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Should you be a data analyst?
From the course: Preparing to Get a Job in Data Analytics
Should you be a data analyst?
- After learning more about data analytics are you excited about potentially becoming a data analyst? Or are you still not sure if it's the best career for you? Being a data analyst has a lot of perks. A lot of roles have the potential to work remotely, decent starting salaries, and lots of upward mobility to grow your career. Being a data analyst is also a well-respected hot job right now. However, if these perks are the main reason you are interested in data analytics I encourage you to think if it's the best career for you. Not every day in data analytics is glamorous. In data analytics courses you will generally work with clean cookie cutter data and everything just works out beautifully. In the real world, data is messy, super messy, and a lot of the time analytics teams don't have the best data quality and support from leadership. There can be a lot of challenges to get good quality data and to convince leadership to…