10 digital jobs explained: which job is the right one for you?

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1/10 DATA ANALYST (Tech level: ⭐⭐)

A data analyst collects, cleans up, analyzes, and then stores data. Data might be anything: sales, orders, website analytics, IoT data, etc

The objective is to help stakeholders make better, data-driven decisions.

The job is not very code-oriented, and is ideally suited if you’re:

• Rigorous and meticulous
• Love manipulating sheets
• Easy with statistics and numbers

Tools you need to master:

• Excel/Google Sheets,
• SQL,
• Power BI/Tableau,
• Python/R

“The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.” Max Levchin, PayPal co-founder.

2/10 DATA SCIENTIST (Tech level: ⭐⭐⭐)

Data scientists collect and analyze large data sets. They then use their programming and statistical skills to interpret them. Their job is basically to create models that will help predict future events. For example, they could use e-commerce site data to predict stocks and…