Programming languages
As a data analyst, another skill that I recommend you start including in your toolkit if you don’t already have it is a programming language, and even better if this language is specifically oriented toward data analysis.
Although solutions such as Power BI offer you countless functions to create any type of indicator, there will always be gaps or improvement opportunities that many programming languages already include, such as Python.
Python is currently the most popular programming language for both data-related areas and general programming. This means that you can use Python as a backend programming language, but also use the libraries it contains to analyze data, perform complex mathematical calculations, or create predictive models.
Among the existing libraries that you can use within Python for data analysis, we have the most common ones, which are numpy
, pandas
, plotly
, and scikit-learn
. We will learn a little more about them in a bit...