How to become a data analyst?

I am a computer Science student. What are the computer skills that are required to become a data analyst? Where do I prepare my aptitude from?

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How do you currently collect behavioral, attitudinal, transactional and demographic data?

How do you currently collect behavioral, attitudal, transactional and demographic data? This question is sponsored by SPSS.

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What analyses should I use?

Hi everyone, For my research I have to look at the difference between someone's self-rated performance and his/her peer-rated performance (how his/her team members look at his/her performance). Both self-rated and peer-rated performance are scale measures. I have to do this analysis for six...

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Relation Between virtual memory, cache memory and RAM?

Hi friends, Hope you all are doing fine. Actually, I am new in the networking field. Can anybody tell me the size relation between virtual, cache and RAM memory in Windows Operating systems? Thanks in advance.

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Tools for analyzing honeypots data

What tools are available to analysis honeypots data?

mazizytambo5 pointsBadges:

IBM MDM Hierarchy Table Architecture

As a Data Analyst, I need to understand the physical design of the IBM MDM Hierarchy physical implementation. Is there documentation to support this request?

rbustamante5 pointsBadges:

comparision between water fall model and evolutionary model

what are the advantages and disadvantages of waterfall model over evolutionay model in a software development life cycle.

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How should I start my data analysis?

I have a database which has machine data (tables like: machine cycles, machine phases and many more ) and I am suppose to analysis this data. Meaning, with the data present in different tables, I have to filter out or rather define standard machine cycles, standard machine phase etc. Hence, can you...

rakeshmurthy5 pointsBadges:

How to open the .FCA file format data?

Dear Sir/ Madam, I have a file having .fca format. I want to read, edit, print, etc. the .fca data. So what shall I do in this regard?

herambgaikwad0125 pointsBadges:

Review a dashboard of profitability analysis

How do I review a dashboard for profitability analysis?

mcfangeb15 pointsBadges:

Scanning network packets on Windows Server 2003

We need to capture network packets for analysis on our Windows Server 2003. How can we achieve this and is there a guide to analyzing this data?

TeachMeIT975 pointsBadges:

Live production numbers as screen saver

We count the cattled killed in a slaughter facility and this data changes every 2.6 min. I want the screen saver (Windows) to reflect the current kill number and will update say every three minutes.

Bjweber5 pointsBadges:

What is clipper and how would a bank use it?

I am trying to prep someone for an interview, The manager is leading the clipper transition. How do I explain to someone what clipper is and how it relates to the job description below? Required: field mapping and testing experience, understanding of technical documentation and basic SQL, Nice to...

Sml1015 pointsBadges:

iSeries Access ODBC Driver Error

I'm trying to run a stored procedure on MS SQL Query Analyzer but continue to get the following error: Server: Msg 7399, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 OLE DB provider 'MSDASQL' reported an error. [OLE/DB provider returned message: [IBM][iSeries Access ODBC Driver][DB2...

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SQL Server Query

How to find the second highest value in a table using a Query. For example, in a table of employees how to find the second highest salaried employee.

Radhika0 pointsBadges:

Are you using Excel for cost estimating?

Over at ConstructionSoftwareReview.com, we have noticed that a fair number of cost estimators, cost engineers and contractors in the construction industry use Excel to determine how much a particular project will cost and to prepare the cost estimate that they present to potential clients. Is...

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What are the best Business Intelligence conferences?

Please include date/time, location, topics, and speakers if you can.

DavidMai10 pointsBadges:

Are intuitive decisions the wrong way to get big data success?

During last week's MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, attendees were told that their organizations need to develop data-driven decision-making skills to capitalize on 'big data' technologies. Shawn Banerji, managing director at Russell Reynolds Associates put it this way: "Reliance on empirical data is in....

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Technical College vs. University

Hello all- Would it be more beneficial to attend a technical college or university? A certain technical college, ECPI (www.ecpi.edu) in VA, has sparked my interest because they advertise 'they meet with some industry experts to discuss tech trends and what education needs to be put out to keep up...

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Data Conversion on IBM AS/400

Hi, We're converting some old master files in to new format files. These master files have around 58 million records each. We wrote COBOL programs to convert the format and write to the new files. In order to speed up the process we are splitting the each master file into 20 parts(i.e., 20 files...

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