The average working day might involve:
Helping with reporting and data-driven decision making by conducting analysis and visualisation
Interviewing business stakeholders to gather data requirements
Setting up an IT infrastructure to collect data and provide information for research
Writing code for a range of database management systems
Collecting data from a variety of sources, such as transactional systems or social media, and ensuring accuracy
Working with models to ensure data integrity
Updating data management solutions to increase cleanliness and consistency
Data Analysts also spend a lot of time doing data preparation. This is when they undertake all of the data cleaning activities to prepare datasets for analysis.