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π°Data Analyst Roadmap 2026 βββ πIntroduction to Data Analysis β βββ Role overview & career paths β βββ Key skills: SQL, Excel, storytelling β βββ Tools ecosystem (Colab, Tableau Public) βββ πExcel Mastery (Formulas, Pivots) β βββ VLOOKUP, INDEX-MATCH, XLOOKUP β βββ PivotTables, slicers, Power Query β βββ Charts & conditional formatting β βββ ETL basics in spreadsheets βββ πSQL for Analytics (Joins, Aggregates) β βββ Advanced SELECT with WHERE, GROUP BY β βββ JOINS (INNER, LEFT, window functions) β βββ Performance: indexes, EXPLAIN plans βββ πVisualization Principles (Charts, Dashboards) β βββ Chart types (bar, line, heatmaps) β βββ Design rules (avoid chart junk) β βββ Color theory & accessibility βββ πPython Basics (Pandas, NumPy) β βββ DataFrames: load, clean, merge β βββ Grouping, pivoting, NumPy arrays β βββ Jupyter notebooks & stats intro βββ π’Statistics Fundamentals (Averages, Tests) β βββ Descriptive (mean, median, distributions) β βββ Hypothesis testing (t-tests, chi-square) β βββ A/B testing & confidence intervals βββ π Tableau/Power BI Essentials β βββ Tableau: calculated fields, LOD β βββ Power BI: DAX, data modeling β βββ Interactive dashboards & storytelling βββ π€AI Tools for Insights (Prompts, AutoML) β βββ Prompt engineering for SQL/viz β βββ Tableau Einstein, Power BI Copilot β βββ AutoML basics (no-code modeling) βββ βοΈCloud Platforms (BigQuery Basics) β βββ BigQuery SQL & massive datasets β βββ AWS QuickSight, Snowflake intro β βββ Free tier cost optimization βββ πData Storytelling Frameworks β βββ Pyramid Principle for reports β βββ KPI dashboards & executive summaries β βββ Narrative structure (context-insight-action) βββ πETL Pipelines Intro (dbt, Airflow) β βββ Data transformation with dbt β βββ Orchestration (Airflow basics) β βββ No-code: Zapier automation βββ πΌPortfolio & Interview Prep β βββ 3-5 projects (sales, churn analysis) β βββ Kaggle datasets & GitHub portfolio β βββ STAR method, mock interviews βββ π§ͺReal-world Challenges (Kaggle, Cases) βββ E-commerce churn prediction βββ Marketing ROI analysis βββ Supply chain optimization βββ LeetCode SQL, case studies Like for detailed explanation β€οΈ