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Skills that open doors
Python or R
The line between analyst and data scientist is mostly whether you can code.
Analytics engineering
Building the data pipelines that feed the dashboards.
Cloud data warehouses
Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks. Certificates are cheap and in demand.
A domain
Finance, health, marketing or supply chain. Analysts who understand the business become the ones in the room.