How does one become a data analyst? How do you get into the field when you are coming from somewhere completely different? Is becoming a data analyst the right career choice for you?

First, however, you may be asking yourself “what is data analytics?”

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Here’s a video by Alex the Analyst called How to Become a Data Analyst in 2023 (Completely FREE!).

Here’s another video by Alex called The Ultimate Data Analytics Career Plan for 2023 | CareerFoundry Webinar.

Here’s a video by Luke Barousse called How I’d Learn to be a Data Analyst in 2024.

Here’s a video by Tina Huang called The MOST Important Skills To Learn in 2024.

When you are building projects for your portfolio, consider aiming for three to five projects. How long will it take? Assuming you have the skills through courses and other resources, you could take about a week to do a project. Don’t do huge complex projects. Put together your projects. This might take a week or two to put them all together. Consider a website, Kaggle, LinkedIn or others.

Most data analysts do not work at the big tech companies. They work at midsize companies and some even work at small companies.

Should you become a data analyst? What type of people make good data analysts? Here’s a video called How to tell if a career in Data Analytics is right for you… Are you curious, analytical, logical, a problem-solver, a business strategist, mathematical, statistical, comfortable presenting and collaborating, and like to mostly work alone, but not always? If some of these describe you, might want to become a data analyst.

You could get your Google Data Analytics certificate like I did.