Following is the roadmap to learn Data Analyst skills for a total beginner (no coding or computer science background needed). It includes FREE learning resources for technical skills (or tool skills) and soft (or core) skills.

Total Duration: 3 Months, 3 hours in Tool Skills + 1 hour in Core Skills = 4 hours study Every Day.

✈️ Week 1 and 2: Excel and Business Math/Statistics

👉Excel: Topics:

✅Learn Basic Formulas: SUM, AVERAGE, PRODUCT, MEAN, MEDIAN, IF, SUMIF

✅Advanced Formulas: VLOOKUP, MATCH, INDEX

✅Pivot Tables

✅Basic Charting, Filters, Sorting

❌Ignore VBA, Macros etc.

Resources 👉Google templates gallery for personal finance: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/?ftv=1

👉Budget planner: vertex42.com/ExcelTemplates/budgets.html

👉Chandoo's YouTube channel: youtube.com/@chandoo

👉Business Math and Statistics Topics:

✅Business Math

✅Arithmetic, Percentages

✅YoY (Year over year) Growth or Decline: When Apple grew from 50 to 60 million, what is the % growth? Answer: 20 %

✅If below is the cell phone sales breakdown, what is the % Market Share of iPhone? Answer: 42.10%

🤔iPhone - 40 billion

🤔Samsun Galaxy -20 billion

🤔Google Pixel – 5 billion

🤔Others – 30 billion

✅Basic Statistics: Mean, Median, Standard Deviation, Bell Curve, Percentile

👉Learning Resources: ✅khanacademy.org

✅Intro to percentage khanacademy.org/math/prealgebra/xb4832e56:p..

✅mathsisfun.com

✅YouTube (codebasics YouTube channel will have a playlist on this in the future)

🙉Assignment

👉Create your own budget sheet

👉Create a professional looking LinkedIn profile

✅Have a clear profile picture, banner image (data analyst loading…)

✅Add tags such as: Open to work etc.

Week 3, 4, 5: BI tools (Power BI or Tableau)

👍Power BI

Track A

👉Sales insights Power BI project: bit.ly/3C1WKgA

👉Personal finance project:

✅project: youtube.com/watch?v=pqSoCa2NGj4

✅HR data analytics project: bit.ly/3C7cw9P

Track B

✅Sales insights project tutorial playlist: bit.ly/3C1WKgA

✅ Power BI course that can make you job ready: visit 👇codebasics.io/courses/powerbidataanalysiswi..

✅Tableau

Codebasics sales insights project: bit.ly/3YQSBFVoHINDI

Codebasics sales insights project: bit.ly/3hZXUCb

🤔Should I learn Power BI or Tableau?If someone asks me to pick between Power BI and Tableau, I always suggest.

Power BI as it is growing in popularity as compared to Tableau.

This Gartner research shows Power BI is eading a BI game:

👉info.microsoft.com/ww-landing-2022-gartner-..

✅LinkedIn - Soft Skill

Start following prominent data analytics influencers

🥰Hemanand Vadivel: linkedin.com/in/hemvad/oIncrease engagement

🥳Start commenting meaningfully on data analytics and career related posts

🥳Helps network with others working in the industry build connections

✅Learning and brainstorming opportunity

✅Business Fundamentals - Soft Skill

Learn business concepts from ThinkSchool and other YT Case Studies

👉Example: How Amul beat competition: youtu.be/nnwqtZiYMxQ

Learn P&L fundamentals

There are many data analyst positions in finance department of any company and learning P&L is super important for this role

✅Resource: Investopedia

✅Power BI course for integrated business and tech learning

✅Discord - Soft Skill

Start asking questions and get help from the community. This post shows how to ask questions the right way:bit.ly/3I70EbI

🤩Assignment ☐ Share your learning using a LinkedIn Post: Example: ✅bit.ly/3GkqhEF

☐ Read and understand P&L statement of at least 3 public companies

Week 6 and 7: SQL

👉SQL

Topics

✅Basics of relational databases

✅Basic Queries: SELECT, WHERE LIKE, DISTINCT, BETWEEN, GROUP BY, ORDER BY

✅Advanced Queries: CTE, Subqueries, Window Functions

✅Joins: Left, Right, Inner, Full

✅Stored procedures and functions

❌No need to learn database creation, indexes, triggers etc. as those things are rarely used by data analysts

Learning Resources

✅Track A

👉Khan academy: bit.ly/3WFku20

👉w3schoos.com/sql

👉sqlbolt.com

✅Track B

✈️SQL course for data professionals:

👉codebasics.io/courses/sq-beginner-to-advanc..

✅Soft Skills

✅Participate in one resume project challenge: 👇codebasics.io/event/codebasics-resume-proje..

👉If you have a relevant background say in supply chain then pick that challenge.

👉Learn presentation skills

✅Death by PowerPoint: 👇youtube.com/watch?v=Iwpi1Lm6dFo

🤭Assignment

✅ ☐Participate in one resume project challenge

✅ ☐Make a LinkedIn post: just text, no audio/video

✅Example post: bit.ly/3VwAGRY

✅Codebasics is promoting winning entries to employers. This way you can get interview calls. We do this in two ways

✅We have a database of employers hiring for data analyst positions.

✅We send first 10 or 20 profiles based on their performance

✅Linkedin post by Dhaval (who has more than 100k followers and some of them are HR managers, data analytics senior managers):

👉bit.ly/3jnni5c

Week 8, 9, 10: Python & Pandas

👉Python

✈️Topics

✅Variables, Lists, Dictionaries, Tuples, If condition, for loops, functions, modules, file handling, classes and objects, exception handing

Learning Resources

✈️Track A

👉Codebasics python tutorials (first 16) - bit.ly/3X6CCC7

👉Codebasics python HINDI tutorials - bit.ly/3vmXrgw

✅Make sure to work on exercises in these folders: 👇github.com/codebasics/py/tree/master/Basics..

✈️Track B

👉Python course: 👇codebasics.io/courses/python-for-beginneran..

✅Pandas

👉Topics

✅Dataframe basics

✅Reading data from csv/excel files

✅Handing missing data

✅Group by, Concat, Merge

👉Resources

👉Codebasics pandas playlist (first

9) 👉youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeo1K3hjS3uuASpe..

✅Kaggle datasets: 👇kaggle.com/datasets

✅Kaggle notebooks: kaggle.com/notebooks

✈️Project Management

🤩Scrum: scrumtrainingseries.com/oKanban: youtu.be/jf0tlbt9lx0

✈️Tools: JIRA, Notion

✅Assignment

☐Participate in one resume project challenge

☐Make a LinkedIn post: with audio

☐ Discord: Start helping people

Week 11, 12: Resume and Interview Prep

Resume Preparation

Resumes are dying but not dead yet. Focus more on onine presence

Here is the resume tips video along with some templates you can use for your data analyst resume: 👉✅youtube.com/watch?v=buQSI8NLOMw

😊Interview Preparation

😊SQL interview preparation

✅Use this website: 👉👇datalemur.com

👉👇Also check this YouTube channel: youtube.com/@techTFQ

👉👇Power BI and other tech interview preparation

✅Playlist coming soon on codebasics YouTube channel

🤴🤴Job Applications

Cold emailing: youtu.be/tDsQSzq6uY

Job referrals. Use LinkedIn as much as you can

🤔Assignment

☐Participate in resume project challenge

😇These challenges help you improve technical skills, soft skills and business

understanding

🤴Make a LinkedIn post: this time with video

👉Example post: bit.ly/3WMTgGK (Naveen S)

☐Discord server participation

Tips of effective learning

👉Spend less time in consuming information, more time in

Digesting

Implementing

Sharing

✅Group learning

Use partner-and-group-finder channel on codebasics discord server for group study and hold each other accountable for the progress of your study plan.

You can this discord server link, it useful to be among peers and network: 👉👇discord.gg/r42Kbuk

🥳🥳 You will want to see some Inspirational Stories

✅Data analyst career transition success stories: 👇bit.ly/3PUZ4f3

👉BCom to data analyst transition success story: 👉👇youtu.be/lqEzYDuTnvU

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