Data analyst
Turn numbers into clear answers that help people make better decisions.
- To get started
- 6 to 12 months
- Career change
- Easy
What you really do
You collect data (sales, customers, health, agriculture), clean it, analyse it and present what you found with simple charts.
A typical day
- 9 amA question from the director: why did sales drop in Parakou?
- 10 amExtracting and cleaning the sales data.
- 2 pmAnalysis and building charts.
- 4 pmPresenting the results to the team.
The skills
- Curiosity
- Excel
- SQL
- Basic statistics
- Explaining things simply
- Analysis
The path to get there
A bachelor's degree in statistics, economics, mathematics or computer science, or a specialised data analysis course.
Career change: Very accessible if you already use Excel at work.
Job prospects
Banks, insurance companies, telecoms, NGOs, public services, retail companies.
It's for you if…
- You like tables and numbers.
- You often ask "why?".
- You like explaining.