Advice for Data Analyst Career
from jupyter@lemmy.ml to programming@programming.dev on 22 Jun 16:04
https://lemmy.ml/post/17174857

I’m starting as data analyst (roughly bachelor level). My responsibility will be to analyze time series data and classify agents and write reports. I won’t be responsible for the database management. It’s likely that I have to use R because my colleagues use R. I guess I may use python if it’s more appropriate.

Which books and other things can you guys recommend? What should I avoid?

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badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world on 22 Jun 16:17 next collapse

You’ll probably have to generate a lot of plots, graphs and figures. Choosing the right type of figure to explain the data is an important skill - maybe have a play with some of the examples from r-graph-gallery.com

jupyter@lemmy.ml on 24 Jun 14:17 collapse

thanks! That’s good to go through. knowing plots is always good

bobburger@fedia.io on 22 Jun 17:22 collapse

If you're doing a lot of reporting I highly recommend getting familiar with Quarto. It's incredibly flexible for writing ad hoc reports, automated reporting, dashboards, presentations, etc. You can use python, R, observable, or Julia.

jupyter@lemmy.ml on 24 Jun 14:17 collapse

Thanks! I’ll def check it out =) and it looks like a good alternative to weave