now that feels really weird to say NUMBER_TOKEN because i feel like it's still like six months away uh but it's already here and so you know a lot of people are going to be creating new year's resolutions they're going to be creating goals for themselves and for a lot of people who are trying to get into data analytics the goal for this year is to get a new job to transition or or to you know get that first job as a data analyst and that's what this video is all about so i'm going to walk you through these steps that i would take if i was starting over today on exactly what things i would be focusing on and then i'll give you some rough estimates and time frames about how long you should be spending on each step so that you don't get stuck too long on one step you can kind of push yourself to get to that next step so they can keep progressing throughout the year now before we jump into it i want to give a huge shout out to the sponsor of this video and that is coursera coursera is having a huge sale on their coursera plus and so you can get NUMBER_TOKEN off up until january NUMBER_TOKENth and so if you plan on spending a lot of time learning those data analyst skills that we will talk about in this video you can just get a discount on that and so if that is something that you want i will have a link in the description so that you can go and get that NUMBER_TOKEN discount without further ado let's jump into it and i have five points that we're going to talk about and number one is learning the right skills honestly there are a lot of different things that you need to know to become a data analyst but the hard skills the actual skills you're going to be using to do the data analysis are super important you kind of can't get a job as a data analyst without them and so that's kind of the first building block which is learning the correct skills if for whatever reason i forgot every single thing that i knew about data analysis the number one skill that i would start learning again is sql sql is such a powerful skill to have and honestly you'll see it on just about every job description for a data analyst if they're using some type of relational database uh you know they may not be using sql server or mysql but they'd be using something else that they use sql with and honestly it's just a super useful skill you can query the data that sits in a database and you can extract it and look at it and do all sorts of things with it and so that is the number one thing i would look at people before if you want to dip your toes in the water before you actually go and purchase a subscription or a course to learn sql you can take my beginner to advanced series here on youtube you can just go to my page and find it it has about NUMBER_TOKEN videos or so that takes you all the way from the very basics all the way up to a little bit more of the advanced things and you know i just feel like it's a pretty good place to start if you've never seen the next thing that i would learn is a visualization tool like tableau or power bi and honestly that combined with sql is kind of an unstoppable force you can probably apply for most jobs out
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