Tell me about this "big data" meme and how I can get a job as a "data analyst".
>>1231505
Learn SQL, Python, and take a data analytics course. You could probably do all this in 2 weeks.
>earn 20K more per year
>>1231512
Make sure to exaggerate your experience of course, and be able to make a case for it.
Your job after that is to not get fired then. If you get a position where you're the only analytics guy, you've lucked out.
>>1231512
How much math is needed to be a data analyst? I was under the impression that you need to know calculus, linear algebra, and advanced statistics to be competent.
>>1231518
Lol, no. Just pretend like you do.. Go watch the Khan Academy videos at 1.5x speed.
If you're serious though, yeah you do.
1: Sign up for a Coursera class and never login again.
2: Ignore hundreds of years of statistics.
3: Convince yourself that you can eliminate sampling error by sampling more of the same thing from the same place at the same time.
4: Make large documents with lots or colorful graphics that don't draw any meaningful conclusions.
5: Keep reminding yourself that one right prediction among a hundred bad ones is still a success.
6: Collect more data.
7: Collect even more data.
8: If you collect enough data, you will eventually build a perfectly accurate model.
9: Use search term trends for flu symptoms to predict when winter is coming.
10: Congradulations, you are now a data scientist.
>>1231519
How often is it all used. Is getting an internship as a data analyst feasible for someone who's currently taking calc 1.
>>1231523
Calc 1 has little usage outside of Engineering & Graduate level work.
>>1231505
You missed out, anon. We've already hit peak hype on 'Data Science/Big Data'. All the complex stuff is already being simplified for use by non-technical people. Soon it will just be another bunch of MBA's bullshitting while using Tableau instead of Excel/Powerpoint and using whatever the default custoner segments someone else set up for them in Adobe Analytics. Unless you go to a Fintech or google/amazon/Microsoft you won't be doing anything interesting.
>>1231526
so other than knowing SQL and Python what are the minimum hard and soft skills expected from a junior data analyst
>>1231521
Are you talking about data science or economics.
What the fuck is BIG DATA and what is small data and who the fuck cares?
>>1231521
>Use search term trends for flu symptoms to predict when winter is coming.
You... I like you.
>>1231521
5/5 Banter. I'm stealing this just so you know.
>>1231527
Damn, coming from an applied mathematics background, what are some memes I can still profit off of?
>>1231521
But I love using boosting and bagging to prop shit up
>>1231527
Confirming this.
Unfortunately, I bought into the hype and did a masters in it.
Now working as an office temp on zero money.
There was only ever a shortage for the very top phd level machine learning guys and big data architect guys. If you have to ask how to get into data science/big data, you can't.
If for some reason you do decide to pursue it, you'll basically be a low level analyst looking at shoe sales for some crappy little business, using pre-defined settings on some licensed software to make pretty powerpoints.
>>1231547
Big data = basically stuff that relational engines (think SQL) isn't as good at. Partitioned databases, graph databases, shit like that.
>company wants new progressive marketing techniques
>hires me at age 19 as marketing manager
>get my own office, workable budget, manage online advertisements
>set up a facebook page and instagram
>make a couple posts a day
>show boss the indoor google maps tour of our showroom, take credit
>he thinks I'm a god
>f5 4chan 8 hours a day out of the 9 I'm paid to work there for a year
>left to pursue STEM degree
you guys can make fun of me now
>>1231694
>Unfortunately, I bought into the hype and did a masters in it.
Where did you get your degree?
>>1231526
>Implying a company wouldn't want to know it's elasticity of demand for it's products
>implying elasticity with a derivative isn't the best way to find it
Your statement was retarded.
for someone who has worked as a data analyst..this thread fucking hit homes
>>1231607
machine learning
>>1231512
>You could probably do all this in 2 weeks
>2 weeks
>Python
Lel, maybe SQL but Python needs a lot more than that
