These 2 top skills you need to become an analyst

Pools of master data present in repositories play a big role in data analytics. For example, data is already re-posited in data warehouses. Example, product data, customer data etc.

Big data needs mixed skills. For example - technical skills and some soft skills.

1# Technical Skills

One being able to administer software frameworks like:

• Hadoop, 
• expertise in databases like noSQL, 
• Cassandra or HBase 
• analytics programming languages and facilities like R or Pig.

2# Soft Kills

Ability of people to think broadly across the organization, to understand the bottom-line needs of the business, to know which analytics questions to pose to get to those bottom lines, and to measure and communicate results. Additional Technical Skills - SAS, Cognos

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