Tag: analytics

What Skills Do You Need to Become a Data Engineer

Peng Wang

People often ask me what skills needed to become a data engineer. Before answering that question, let's take a look at what data engineer do. According to Coursera

Data engineering is the practice designing and building systems for collecting, storing, and analyzing data at scale.

Data engineering has become the backbone of many applications across industries, and data engineer is an indispensable asset for many organizations.

I like using data to answer questions. I extracted 550 United States data engineer jobs from indeed.com and did some quick analyses using job description, location, and salary range. Although sample size is not big, it should be sufficient to reveal some insights and trends.

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What Skills Do You Need to Become an HR Analyst

Peng Wang

For work reasons, I have opportunities to interact with HR analysts everyday. I am always curious what skills one would need to become an HR analyst.

Below is an HR Analyst job summary from SHRM.org. Other names for HR Analyst include People Analytics Analyst, Workforce Analytics Specialist, Data Analyst - People Analytics, etc.

The Human Resource (HR) Analyst will collect, compile, and analyze HR data, metrics, and statistics, and apply this data to make recommendations related to recruitment, retention, and legal compliance.

SHRM.org

To become an HR analyst, one needs to have the HR-related domain knowledge. This topic will be explored in another article. Here we will just focus on technical skills, general skills, and education.

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COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Power BI Dashboard

COVID19 dashboard
Peng Wang

On March 11, the WHO declared the Novel Coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, a new disease that has spread around the world. Many countries have seen reported cases of the virus.

To help track and understand the daily spread of the virus, I built this Power BI dashboard. It provides an overview of the confirmed and recovered cases of COVID-19 worldwide outbreaks. It contains daily updates from the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering (JHU CCSE) Coronavirus repository.

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