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If you're like most people with interest in data science, you may have tried to google, “what do I need to learn to become a data scientist?” Well, good luck with that.

I'm sure that one search dashed your hope or at least dampened your initial excitement. The list of all the things you need to learn to become a data scientist would get even the most determined individual doubtful. The list of prerequisite knowledge goes something like this:

Probability and Statistical Analysis
Programming knowledge, preferably Python or R
Linear algebra – emphasis on vectors and matrices
Calculus – both differential and integral
SQL
Excel
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Then the technologies


The breadth of knowledge seem so overwhelming.


But the truth is, you don't need all of what you saw up there to get started as a data analyst, at least not in Nigeria. I'll show you the three most important things you need to know and you can learn them in just 2 months to become a data analyst. Forget about all the fancy words and the fluffs, let's focus for once on what the employer wants from you.


In Nigeria, the duty of a junior data analyst doesn't require that you're able to write some fancy high tech machine learning algorithms. No, you don't need that. Most employers in Nigeria don't have a need for that and in any case, companies who would need such algorithm already have data scientists who are paid above #500,000 that could handle such task. You, on the other hand, just want a beginner position with pay range between #150,000 - #250,000, why should anyone labour you with a PhD level task?.



What Employers Want From You:

First, potential employers would want that you're able to collect and clean up data. Here I'm not talking of data mining, that's above you. You just need to be able to gather the different internally generated data by your employer, format them properly, and feed them into your employer's preferred data analytics tool.


To learn this important skills, you only need to become proficient in Microsoft Excel and SQL. Well, you can't be seriously looking for job as a data analyst without a good knowledge of Microsoft Excel.

The good news is, if you are serious, you can learn enough of Excel to gain confidence in 3-weeks. Once you get the hang of the software, it becomes easy. You can always google your way through any challenging task. That, by the way, is a life-skills to acquire. The solution to virtually every challenge you'll encounter as a junior data analyst, is somewhere on the internet. You just have to learn to use the internet and Google properly.

If you are into MOOC, Edx.org has some great excel tutorials. Just google : “edx excel courses”.



Of the three skills you will need to learn to land a beginner job as a data analyst, SQL is probably the most challenging.

Just to give you an idea of how difficult it is, any serious person can learn SQL under 2 months, take it or leave it. I learned MySQL in less than 2-month. To deepen understanding, I spent time solving task on leetcode.com and hackerrank. Whatever path you take, I really recommend you spend some time on hackerrank. They have an amazing collection of challenges that will force you to take your SQL skills to the next level.


There are lots of free resources online that can teach you SQL like:
w3schools.com
tutorialspoint.com

You should also check out MikeDane's free mysql course on mikedane.com. I totally recommend that. His course will give you the easy and quick introduction you would need to get started with SQL.


Your second task as a data analyst, is developing the ability to draw up insight from data.

As a data analyst, you need to have a problem-solving mentality. That's why you're being paid. Your employer hopes to see some flashes of brilliance occasionally from you.

You play with data, you spot trends that could help cut cost, improve sales or management efficiency, then you become indispensable.


The only way you can effectively pull out meaningful insights from data is when you are genuinely interested in your employer's business.

As a data analyst, you're not an outsider in the company, you're a part of the strategic decision making. So, you're always thinking of the customer, always thinking of the product, and management efficiency.


And to be able to play with data and spot trends, you only need to learn Excel, Mysql and Tableau. Later when you secure a job as a junior data analyst, you can learn SAS and Hadoop for big data analysis. That brings us to the third skills you need to have to be job ready.



The third skills you need is the ability to communicate your findings in a visually appealing and orally compelling manner. Your superior is probably non techy and certainly don't have time to waste, so your data visualization skills have to be good, and the good news is you can learn that in under 3 weeks.
Companies want someone who can help them present data in a fancy way, just like you see with BudgIT.

To acquire all you need to do great data visualization, you need to learn Tableau – it's the no.1 data visualization software, and it is free. 90% of tableau is quite intuitive and easy to understand. And that 90% is what you need to master, to do great visuals. If you can put in 5-hour everyday for one months, that's all you need. Master that software and you're ready for job.




So, may be you just graduated university or you're thinking of switching profession, instead of spending the next one to two years trying to acquire the backlog of skills needed to be a Kaggle level data scientist, spend the next 3 months, acquire these three skills, get a professional resume and get a job as a data analyst.

Once you are in the job, you can spend your free time learning programming, mathematics, statistics and other technologies needed for senior level data analytics.


Contact me for a complete Data Analytics course and hands-on coaching.

Go from scratch to mastery in 3 months.
08180905003

Get in and get job ready in 5 months

tsinzu:
Submissive to which xi jinping? Someone that has been hitting China with tariffs upon tariffs back to back and still promising them that more is coming. Submissive to xi jinping indeed. Arrant Nonsense!!!

Don't mind that guy. He doesn't know the billions Trump is getting out of China . Talking about putin, putin is nice, intelligent and well mannered fellow. He and Trump seem to get along fine and Democrats are enraged by that. Why pick a fight with Russia when. There isn't a need.

As for Iran, I'm sure trump will answer their call after the election. Can't get distracted for now

princecom1:
Op, drop your whatsaapp number, am interested

Contact added

sholamat:
bro.. i will like to have your contact.. cos i really want to learn this data stuff but i don’t know where to start from .. and i have a lot of time in my hand right now and it’s what have been longin to learn but don’t know where to start and can’t get someone to each me even if it’s offline or online... i know little stuff about computer and i taught myself web design .. html css and little knowledge in javascript.. self thought.. have been typing python programming but can get enough resources to program my codes. i have enough time for 4 month and i can spend up to 10 hours on it a day if i have required resources.. i will love to get your contacts and i want u to put me through.. please:::

If you've made it this far, you only need to be pointed to the right direction and resources.

My contact: 08180905003

My only question is: did he Bleep a minor at 17 as a pastor? If he did that they should be consequence.

As an adult and a pastor, he must have unduly influenced her, which is why there is no such thing as consensual relationship with a minor .

If he didn't add Naira and Marley to his useless self will I care.

He should drop those name ASAP its an insult to Nigeria and the legend. He can go nameless for all anybody cares

Ivorian girls are virgin... May I ask, who disvirgin Nigerian girls bikonu.

Angelfrost:
It hurts my ego to say this, but yeah, they could truly embarrass our senior male team.

Na...those girls can't make it through under 17 men group stage. You underate AFCON, the power play is quite intense.

Leave your questions and comments bellow

Kkings11:
This is the best break down of an entry level data scientist requirements that I've seen online. How can I do this, I am in Lokoja

Thanks for the comment.
It's all about putting in the hours of work. Four months with total commitment.

If you're like most people with interest in data science, you may have tried to google, “what do I need to learn to become a data scientist?” Well, good luck with that.

I'm sure that one search dashed your hope or at least dampened your initial excitement. The list of all the things you need to learn to become a data scientist would get even the most determined individual doubtful. The list of prerequisite knowledge goes something like this:

Probability and Statistical Analysis
Programming knowledge, preferably Python or R
Linear algebra – emphasis on vectors and matrices
Calculus – both differential and integral
SQL
Excel
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Then the technologies


The breadth of knowledge is just so overwhelming you're probably thinking, boy which year am I going to finish learning all these, before I start scouting for job.


Honestly speaking you don't need all of what you saw up there to get started as a data analyst, at least not in Nigeria. I'll show you the three most important things you need to know and you can learn them in just 4 months to become a data analyst. Forget about all the fancy words and the fluffs, let's focus for once on what the employer wants from you.


In Nigeria, the duty of a junior data analyst doesn't require that you're able to write some fancy high tech machine learning and deep learning algorithms. No, you don't need that. Most employers in Nigeria don't have a need for that and in any case, companies who would need such algorithm already have senior data analysts who are paid above #500,000 that could handle such task. You, on the other hand just want a beginner position with pay range between #150,000 - #250,000, why should anyone labour you with a PhD level task?.



What Employers Want From You:

First, potential employers would want that you're able to collect and clean up data. Here I'm not talking of data mining, that's above you. You just need to be able to gather the different internally generated data by your employer, format them properly, and feed them into your employer's preferred data analytics tool.


To learn this important skills, you only need to become proficient in Microsoft Excel and SQL. Well, you can't be seriously looking for job as a data analyst without a good knowledge of Microsoft Excel.

But again, the good news is if you are serious, you can learn enough of Excel to gain confidence in 3-weeks. Once you get the hang of the software, it becomes easy. You can always google your way through any challenging task. That, by the way, is a life-skills to acquire. The solution to virtually every challenge you'll encounter as a junior data analyst, is somewhere on the internet. You just have to learn to use the internet and Google properly.

If you are into MOOC, Edx.org has some great excel tutorials. Just google : “edx excel courses”.



Of the three skills you will need to learn to land a beginner job as a data analyst, SQL is probably the most challenging.

Just to give you an idea of how difficult it is, any serious person can learn SQL in 2 months, take it or leave it. I learnt MySQL in less than 2-month. To deepen my understanding, I spent the next one month solving task on leetcode.com and hackerrank. Whatever path you take, I really recommend you spend some time on hackerrank. They have an amazing collection of challenges that will force you to take your SQL skills to the next level.


There are lots of free resources online that can teach you SQL like:
w3schools.com
tutorialspoint.com

You should also check out MikeDane's free mysql course on mikedane.com. I totally recommend that. His course gave me the easy and quick introduction I needed to get started with SQL.


Your second task as a data analyst, is developing the ability to draw up insight from data.

As a data analyst, you need to have a problem-solving mentality. That's why you're being paid. Your employer hopes to see some flashes of brilliance occasionally from you.

You play with data, you spot trends that could help cut cost, improve sales or management efficiency, then you become indispensable.


The only way you can effectively pull out meaningful insights from data is when you are genuinely interested in your employer's business.

As a data analyst, you're not an outsider in the company, you're a part of the strategic decision making. So, you're always thinking of the customer, always thinking of the product, and management efficiency.


And to be able to play with data and spot trends, you only need to learn Excel, Mysql and Tableau. Later when you secure a job as a junior data analyst, you can learn SAS and Hadoop for big data analysis. That brings us to the third skills you need to have to be job ready.



The third skills you need is the ability to communicate your findings in a visually appealing and orally compelling manner. Your superior is probably non techy and certainly don't have time to waste, so your data visualization skills have to be good, and the good news is you can learn that in under 3 weeks.
Companies want someone who can help them present data in a fancy way, just like you see with BudgIT.

To acquire all you need to do great data visualization, you need to learn Tableau – it's the no.1 data visualization software, and it is free. 90% of tableau is quite intuitive and easy to understand. And that 90% is what you need to master, to do great visuals. If you can put in 5-hour everyday for one months, that's all you need. Master that software and you're ready for job.




So, may be you just graduated university or you're thinking of switching profession, instead of spending the next one to two years trying to acquire the backlog of skills needed to be a Kaggle level data scientist, spend the next 3 to 4 months, acquire these three skills, change your resume and get a job as a data analyst.

Once you are in the job, you can spend your free time learning programming, mathematics, statistics and other technologies needed for senior level data analytics.


Contact me for a complete Data Analytics course and hands-on coaching.

Go from scratch to mastery in 3 months.

Price very affordable.
08180905003

nairalanduseles:
I rather my kid masturbates than get Std
My brother 90% of young men masturbate and it is very good
Just pretentious Nigeria's cos of religion and a local society make it seem wrong...
Wake up and enjoy soapy

Your ignorance stinks so badly.

They've started bringing their madness into male sport. Why can't women go and officiate women soccer and leave us in peace.

Before you know now, they'll start calling for parity in the ratio of male to female officials.

We don't want women in male sport. Male sport isn't gender neutral , it's male sports

Gentlewarrior1:
As painful as it sounds you are absolutely right

I have said this before

The yahoo boys are the lowest of criminals in this shameless contraption of a country.

The money one single politician even as low as councillor embezzle or loot is bigger than 100 yahoo boys

We need to stop being hypocrites in this country

Only the truth shall set us free.

People are suffering some people are forced to be yahoo boys; even some their parents even knowingly pushed them to be fraudsters .

Its a shame but its the truth

A country as wealthy as Nigeria how can basic 24hours electricity be Rocket science in 2019. Its a big shame .

Nigerians are hypocrites some this people claiming moral high ground over yahoo boys are even thieves. From thieving government officials, thieving police forces, thieving civil servants or even children of thieving politicians and their ilks

I remmeber a lecturer back in my university complaining about the ypuths and how they wont go and work to earn a living rather than stupidly be defrauding people. Yet this same bastard lives way above his paycheck; he collects about 7k - 10k. Mostky 10k sef for every course he handles. His textbook is compulsory especially when you refuse to sort him with money. The man bleeps peoples girlfriend and his students thereby even making some of them to be prostitutes, yet the bastard who in one way or the other also push his students to be fraudsters and prostitutes has the effontery to talk down on yahoo boys and absolve himself from his own illegalities thereby claiming moral high ground and being a saint; forgetting that in saner climes, he is a bigger criminal and even deserves more jail time because a teacher shouldnt be forcing nor persuading his students for sex and also collecting money for grades; even boldly threatning to fail someone and nothing will happen irrespective of their grades, because flimsy stuff. To him he is a mini god. Lol

As bad and shameful as it is; fraudsters even contribute to our economy a lot, Nigeria receive plenty money into the country which a very high percentage of it is proceeds from fraud. Fraudsters in top level.

while our leaders loot our funds and stash it abroad. Buratai has estate worth millions of dollars in dubai yet nobody is saying anything. Efcc embezzles the money and properties retrieved from yahoo boys and thats why they intensify in hunting them down; the main white victims dont receive a dime of their money. Nothing nothing


The society is the problem from begining to end

I have never seen anybody that has moral high ground in this country.


Even the presidency down to every other position are all scammers

Nigeria is a giant shithole

So painful but its the simple truth

Me eh i dont judge anybody in this country provided they dont hold or use a gun or use any weapon at all, kidnap, rape or injure or kill someone; then i dont care nor have anything against them. Since Nigerians have decided to be misbehaving and deceiving ourselves. A situation by which a hard core armed robber and killer will participate and lead jungle justice in lynching a lesser thief . You go know say na mad people full this country. Naija na jungle

Nigeria matter tire me

Thank you for putting it clearly. Our hypocrisy stinks . A morally bankrupt govt cannot seriously fight crime and no wonder they've been failing.

See the US for instance, if you evade tax payment , your neighbor might report you to the govt. Crime fighting should be cultural and it MUST start from top down.

Parrot69:
Hmm.. people sef.
You’re just a nonentity for typing that bull crap of epistle!
Who asked you for your sermon??
Abeg, today is Saturday. i don’t have time for stupidities on Nairaland.
I’m self made, with people on my payroll. not hustling to dupe people of their money. Look for your ilks, we no be mate.

Leaders of Tomorrow indeed.

Obviously you lack critical thinking. Too bad you don't acquire that from going to school these days

Parrot69:
Let’s track this dude and get him arrested.

On what ground nau? Don't be a bloody hypocrite? Did he take anything from you? Are you the mod in this forum ?

You see the embarrassingly high number of people up there interested in joining the fraud business. That tells you something is fundamentally wrong with the country.

People like you will celebrate Buhari for budgeting more money for state House clinic than he did for Teachin hospitals in the entire country, yet have the nerve to call out a yahoo boy

Yahoo boys are criminals, but since when did we start taking criminals seriously in this country?

Over 90% of civil servants are criminals . Only justified because they do it indirectly. All politicians, all of them are criminals . They loot our common wealth and leave the people dry.

Not one person from goodlucks cabinet is jail today. None from Obasanjo . Let's not mention Buhari.

So where are the criminals looting the country. The bad name we have in the world isn't caused by Yahoo boys, instead it's caused by greedy and heartless politicians that have destroyed the country.

Look what we still debate over today: avg of 2hr electric supply daily. Broken roads everywhere . Dilapidated school infrastructures. No good medical provisions. In fact what is even working here, just music and fashion. And what has govt done to support these industry? Zilch.

Before you blame a yahoo guy, you should first put a bullet through the skull of these leaders . They don't deserve to live. Yet your type adore and worship them.

Enn214:
http://saharareporters.com/2019/06/21/church-islamic-political-leaders-want-tb-joshua-banned-israel-reject-his-crusade

First thing you must know regarding this news is that the Haaretz has never being a pro Israeli news channel . They also lean towards the Islamic side in their story. So, when it says, 'christian leaders' without mentioning any Christian leader, you better take that with a pinch of salt.

GoTV:
I'm a born again Christian but i don't like how trump treat Muslims

My brother you have no idea about how Trump treats Muslims.
Before he took office, the Muslim world was in disarray, isil was tearing the place apart . A fight Obama couldn't win for 6 years.

You have no idea the Pain suffered by these Muslims in the hand of isil

Trump doesn't want America to become another London, where Muslims have completely hijacked the city. Muslims need to be put on check, and thank God for a president with the courage to do so

theButterfly:
He started his 2020 re-election campaign the day he took office. He has been fundraising and speaking at campaign rallies, shoring up his base. Current polls suggest he's behind other candidates like Biden, Sanders, and Buttigieg tho, but we'll see. Another term of this man in the WH isn't what America needs.

Current poll! ���
This is so funny. Polls from CNN right? No problems, liberals just don't learn. The real Americans hate the liberal madness and would vote Trump again.

If Trump could roast Hilary the way he did, I'm eagerly waiting for the drama verses creepy Joe biden . Joe has no chance, against Trump.

Within the last three years Trumps love from all quarters has sky rocketed. And we know this because CNNs rating is at all time low. The people love their president.
The only people who hates this man are, Muslims, liberal, lgbqt..., The far left.

Wish he could ban African leaders from going to America

Trump, the best American president ever. If he could win in 2016, against the establishment, against all media projection, against the hate from the media, this is going to be a walkaway.

In times like this the world needs a Trump. Look what he has done to restore peace in the middle East, yet the media would never give him credit.

He needs to put China in their place and he is effectively doing that. He needs to tighten the influx of illegal immigration to the US, and he is doing that.

He has giving more to blacks in America in 4 years than Obama would ever do in a life time.

When last did you see Isis on the news?
The guy is amazing. He needs to finish the good work he has started. The enemies of American values can go to hell

stubbornman:
You know ehn....... Nairaland is filled with idiots without brain..... Someone asked a very sensitive question that many people (like me) can learn from but what do we have?? some bunch irresponsible, Godforsaken, orangutan exhibiting their ignorance...... Some of you really disgust me on this forum.... we don't even know when to play!!!...that's why foreigners hardly stop by to comment on this forum!!!!

Sometimes I read people's comment here and I wonder what some of you look like in real life.

Well, as much as I hate to admit it, for the first time I see sense in a yahoo guys statement.

Take a minute and think about it, life is a scam

How else do you want to explain that 2% of the population control 98% of our collective resources

How is Buharis feeding allowance for a month enough to feed everyone in my village for a year, yet people go to bed hungary

How did a few people come up with the idea that all land belong to them, we have to pay tax to them, they sit and talk we pay them in hundreds of millions

How was the oil wells of the country licensed? Were you notified?

Imperial countries scam developing countries, head of countries scam their people , corporations scam the people. Do you know how many billions corporations made during the 2004 NSE boom... All scam. To these day my 200k has gone under. No body apologized to me, nobody got arrested. Because govt said that means of scaming is legal.

The block chain revolution just officially began