Here’s What a Data Analyst Actually Does

The essence of what a data analyst does from practical experience

Terence Shin, MSc, MBA
Towards Data Science
3 min readApr 21, 2020

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I’ve read several articles that gave me a laundry list of things that a data analyst does, but in the simplest sense, you are analyzing and visualizing data. Each company has their own databases that you can query from. These companies also have their own tools for data visualizations…

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