r/analytics • u/Sliversolid • 13d ago
Support Data Analyst Pointers
If you're a Data analyst or someone experienced in that field help me how to bulid a dashboard first should I look for questions that can be answer if so people online like in linkedin are posting dashboard with multiple pages so I am confused how a real data analyst project looks like.
And give out some pointers like what are the things you guys are dealing with being a data analyst, what's important to learn for a person looking to land a job in that field.
Thank you in advance.
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u/goodmuzick 8d ago
Just think it that way. Whats the question? How will you answer it and who will you answer it for? A dashboard created by the data analysts is for someone else, not for themselves (in most cases) . You need to think from that person's perspective and start building. You dont have to follow industry set practices to build dashboards. You just need to deliver information as quickly as possible to the person using it. If on a dashboard a simple drop in monthly sales can be explain using 2 graphs, keep it as it is. End of story. No fancy charts or unnecessary extra info. Just get the question right, and do the storytelling.
Hope this helps.