How to become a data analyst in 2021

Welcome back! In my opinion, data analytics is a great job for anyone trying to break into any programming / technical position. My very first full time job was as a data analyst, although my title has changed since then, I still do alot of data analytics for almost all of the projects i’ve been a part of, so how do you become a data analyst in 2021? Let’s go ahead and break down the most important characteristics of a data analyst. Now, I prefer reverse engineering the process, so instead of learning a bunch of random skills, I would prefer finding out exactly what is needed for a multitude of different data analyst jobs, finding out the most important requirements and learning those specific tools, let’s take a look this job page from Google as data analyst:

You can see that for this specific position, you would need to know SQL/retrieving data from a database. I essentially scrubbed through a ton of data analyst positions for you in order to get to the meat and bones of becoming a data analyst based on the requirements of some of the most…