Be Data Curious!: Be Data Curious!, #1

By Nick Jewell and Shaan Mistry

The concept of data literacy has grown dramatically in importance over the few years. 

 

The explosion in popularity of self-service analytics technology has now created a community that spans tools and vendors and now helps analysts develop their skills and awareness of best practices from acquiring data, cleansing and enriching data, blending data sources together and the steps needed to analyze and draw insights from data, and then communicate their findings. 

 

This book provides a learning framework for modern analysts, ensuring that the most critical steps in the analytical journey are described, demystified and documented so that it's finally possible to lay out a path for a successful analytics career: from core foundations to more advanced concepts. 

 

Enjoy the journey, build a lifelong learning habit and most importantly: stay curious! 

• Language: English
• Publisher: datacurious.ai
• Release date: Apr 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9781393807643

Book preview

Be Data Curious!

Lifelong Analytics Skills for Career Growth

Introductions

Dear Reader,

Thank you so much for downloading this short e-book (the first in an ongoing series) that describes the key skills that modern data analysts need in order to succeed, thrive and grow their analytics career and personal brand!

This book describes an analytic journey for the reader. From your very first uncertain steps with data, through the foundational skills of data literacy to proven expertise across a wide range of analytic learning paths, including advanced topics such as geospatial analytics, data science and automation. We’ll also touch on critical skills such as developing reusability in your projects so that you can win your working day back and become more productive!

Throughout this book we make gentle recommendations on subject areas and technologies that are worth investing your time if you want to develop your skills further, especially the use of the Alteryx analytics platform as a fantastic way to experience the power of analytics without having to master heavy-duty programming or scripting languages.

To support this, we’ve also developed two Udemy courses as a companion to this e-book that will give you on-demand lessons covering every aspect (and more!) of the subject matter from this book, and develop your skills to the extent that you’ll be in great shape to get Alteryx Core and then Advanced Certified and take your analytics career to the next level.

The best part? We want you to succeed! For a limited time only, we’re offering