What is the difference between Data analyst and Business analyst?

Data analyst with domain knowledge becomes business analyst.

Data Analyst

A data analyst has good technical skills to make sense out of huge data volume.
Data analyst coordinates with business analyst to understand the work. He/she does not directly deals with business team.
Data analyst should have knowledge of Python, SQL, Power BI and little bit of cloud technologies like AWS etc. He/she should be able to work with huge set of data. Knowledge of ETL tools does help.
After gaining couple of years of experience, data analyst can become business analyst or data scientist or ML/AI engineer.
A data analyst salary in Pune ranges from 3,00,000/ Annum to 10,00,000/ Annum

Business Analyst

A business analyst has good technical skills as well as deep domain knowledge.
Business analyst coordinates directly with business. Understands the business problem and translates it into workable item for data analyst.
Along with knowledge of Python, SQL, Power BI, Cloud. Business analyst should have strong business understanding. He/ she must know business processes. Knowledge of ERP like SAP becomes very important.
After gaining couple of years of experience, business analyst can become data scientist or ML/AI expert.
Business analyst salary in Pune ranges from 10,00,000/ Annum to 25,00,000/ Annum.

Can a fresher get job after completing data analyst course in Pune?

There is a great demand of data analyst. But at the same time, it’s competition. Every company wants a skilled resource and hence getting a job is not easy, you need to beat the competition. Even though you are a fresher but you must have done couple of self projects. There is plenty of projects available on websites like Kaggle. As a candidate you must have a GitHub profile wherein you should have projects work to showcase. Recruiter want to see what kinds of projects you have done.

Interview mostly revolves around project work. Interviewer ask questions from your project itself. They grill candidates to see depth of understanding. A technically sound candidate who has actually done couple of self projects gets selected in almost every interview. 

Getting a job as data analyst in cities like Pune is not difficult provided you have good knowledge with project work to showcase. 

What skills are needed to get job as data analyst?

Data analyst has to work with huge set of data. He/she has to manipulate data and apply complex logic on data in order to make sense of data. For management, he has to present data in visual form by creating interactive dashboards. One needs to learn below skills to become a data analyst.

Python: Python is the language in which data analyst talks with data.

SQL: Data is often very huge which is stored in database. hence SQL knowledge is a must for a data analyst.

Power BI: For exploratory analysis, data needs to be presented in visual dashboards. Power BI is the tool to create visuals out of huge dataset.

Cloud technologies: Data often resides in cloud hence knowledge of cloud is imperative. You don’t have to be a cloud architect but good knowledge of cloud does help.

Just having knowledge of these technologies is not enough. Do multiple self projects and keep updating GitHub profile.

Tech Concept Hub provides practical Data Analyst Course in Pune. Here is the syllabus link for your reference: Data Analyst Course Syllabus

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