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Advice for Data Analyst Career (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 https://r-graph-gallery.com/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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