You might hire a data analyst to:
- Develop, implement, and maintain leading analytic systems, taking complicated problems and building simple frameworks
- Identify trends and growth opportunities by analyzing complex data sets
- Evaluate organizational methods and provide source-to-target mappings and information-model specification documents for data sets
- Create best-practice reports based on data mining, analysis, and visualization
- Evaluate internal systems for efficiency, problems, and inaccuracies, and develop and maintain protocols
- Work directly with management and users to gather requirements, provide status updates, and build relationships
Required Skills and qualifications | Preferred skills and qualifications |
3+ years experience mining data as a data analyst | Prior experience with database and model design and segmentation techniques |
Proven analytic skills, including mining, evaluation, analysis, and visualization | Strong programming experience with frameworks including XML, Javascript, and ETL |
Technical writing experience in relevant areas, including queries, reports, and presentations | Practical experience in statistical analysis through the use of statistical packages including Excel, SPSS, and SAS |
Strong SQL or Excel skills with the ability to learn other analytic tools | Proven success in a collaborative, team-oriented environment |