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Data Analysis Acronyms and their meanings
Coming across acronyms when learning an entirely new subject can be a bit confusing. They also make things appear more complicated than they are. Here are 40 acronyms that you will need to learn as you gravitate toward Data Analysis. SN ACRONYMS MEANING 1 A/B testing Comparison of two versions of a product or feature…
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Why Data Analysis is good for your business
Data analysis is crucial for your business in a variety of ways. Ranging from solving practical business problems to providing tangible recommendations for enhancing business processes. Here are a few of the benefits Data Analysis can provide to your business: 2. Organizations can utilise data analysis to find patterns, trends, and linkages that may not…
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Want to become a computer literate? Here is how.
A basic understanding of computers and the ability to utilise them effectively is definitely required to function well in today’s world where most of our day-to-day processes are becoming computerized. This is even more necessary if you want to start a career in data analysis. To improve your computer literacy, try the following: 2. Gain…
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File extensions you should be familiar with as a Data Analyst
As a Data Analyst, you will be working with several applications to carry out your work and these applications have computer files associated with them. A computer file helps to record data within computer storage and it is usually identified by its name. The end of the filename which is after the full stop is…
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How to Become a Data Analyst
By now, you might have heard a lot about Data Analysis and you may wonder what it entails, who a Data Analyst is, and how to become one. Well, these are legitimate questions that need to be answered. I discussed the first two questions in my previous post “who is a Data Analyst” and I…
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Who is a Data Analyst?
Data analysts gather, analyse, and translate data into insights. By describing trends and patterns, they assist organizations to make better business decisions. Their ability to identify, anticipate, and improve performance has put them in increasingly higher demand globally and across industries. Data analysis provides for the assessment of data through logical and rational thinking to…
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How to handle dirty data in Microsoft Excel
The importance of data for an efficient decision-making process cannot be overstated. Organisations utilise data for this purpose by gathering data from past events, understanding it, forming some conclusions, and using that knowledge to take actions to improve the future. I.e. learning from the past to improve the future. However, the bottleneck comes when the…
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Challenges Beginners Face On Their Career Journey and how to Overcome them
A beginner is someone who is new to a career path and is yet to gain professional experience or expertise. It can also be referred to someone who is in his/her early stages of learning a particular skill or trade. Unlike a beginner, an expert has acquired a great wealth of knowledge and professional experience…
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The Keyboard Shortcuts
Do you know your keyboard shortcuts? Keyboard shortcuts can literally be defined as the reduction of input sequence to a few keystrokes. i.e. using a few keystrokes to achieve the same result as that of a several mouse clicks. However, there is a more in depth meaning to this term. What does a Keyboard Shortcut…
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Colours and Data visualisation
Data visualisation is a key aspect of the data analysis process. It is extensively used during the data exploration stage when analysing data and likewise useful as an explanatory tool to convey findings at the final stage of the process. However, the purpose of data visualisation may be unrealized if it is not well designed…
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