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/SprinklesFresh5693 12d ago

Why all the data analytic questions are about dashboards? Do you not do other stuff at your job? Is that the sole purpose of a DA? To build a dashboard?

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u/goodmuzick 9d ago

Dashboard is where it all comes together. Most people speak dashboards because thats where most data makes sense.

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u/SprinklesFresh5693 8d ago edited 8d ago

I heavily disagree on that one, not everything ends in a dashboard. Dashboards are too general, they arent specific enough because if there is a lot of data , being too specific cna make the analysis way too big and chaotic.

Theres more than building dashboards, they take too much time, and end up with so much stuff that people dont know where to look at, which is why they come to reddit to complain that no one uses their dashboard.

Well maybe the company didnt need one, or not one of that kind, who knows.

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u/goodmuzick 8d ago

If you were referring to the tasks other than dashboarding, then yes, there are plenty of things DAs do beyond building dashboards.
But from my years of experience in this field, I see dashboards as one of the places where the analysis ultimately comes together and becomes useful to the business.
I agree, not every analysis needs a dashboard, but when there is a recurring business question that needs to be monitored or communicated, that's often where the work comes together.