What is a big data analyst?

Big data analysts are professionals engaged in big data analysis. He is responsible for using various data tools and technologies to discover trends, patterns and associations from large-scale data sets, and extract valuable information from them to provide data for enterprises or organizations to support decision-making. These decisions can be business decisions, marketing strategies, product development directions and so on.

Big data analysts usually need the following skills:

Data mining skills: able to use various data mining technologies to find useful information from massive data.

Data modeling skills: able to use statistical modeling technology and machine learning algorithm to predict, classify and cluster data.

Database management skills: able to use database management system to store, manage and query data.

Business domain knowledge: You need to have a deep understanding of the business domain you are analyzing in order to better identify patterns and trends in the data.

Communication and cooperation skills: it is necessary to communicate and cooperate with people from other departments to translate the data analysis results into specific business practices.

Big data analysts have a wide range of work and can work in various industries and fields, such as finance, medical care, education, retail and so on. Their work includes data collection, cleaning, processing, analysis and interpretation. And provide support for enterprises or organizations to help them make better decisions and improve performance and efficiency.