What Is Data Analytics? - An Introduction (Full Guide)

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What exactly is data analytics? What would you be doing as a data analyst, and what kind of hard and soft skills do you need to start learning? In this video introduction, we give you a simple overview of data analytics, and detail some tangible examples of what the role involves!

In this video, William guides you through the term data analytics, introducing some of the key terminology, responsibilities and tasks that a data analyst would undertake on a day-to-day basis.

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Video timestamps / chapters:

(00:00) Introduction
(00:41) What is data analytics
(01:49) What are data analytics used for?
(02:45) What does a data analyst do?
(04:06) Typical process of a data analyst
(06:38) The skills needed to become a data analyst
(08:12) Outro

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Data Analytics For Beginners - An Introduction (2021):
https://youtu.be/yZvFH7B6gKI