re: Any OTers working in Data Analytics?

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I work in Business Intelligence for my company (support the BI platforms all our companies use). If you want to get into Data Analytics (and make good money) there are two paths you can take. Data Science or Data Engineering. Data science is front end data analysis (use the data available to build dashboards/reports for your consumers). A field that is growing and there is a big need for this. Data engineering is the back end side of data analytics: building data warehouses, data workflows, etc. to help get the data into the hands of the data scientists so-to-speak.

Really depends on what you would prefer, both career paths are pretty lucrative. Let me know if you have any other questions!

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What he said, and I would add...

Data Analytics/Science is in demand and is actually easier than engineering/development.
It's a blend of Data Analyst/Programmer.
Need to know enough SQL, SAS to roll up data and perform analysis (and often involves creating dashboards so that management can easily view and understand the data).

Learn SQL (SQL Server and/or Oracle) to start, then SAS.