Essentials for Acing any Data Analytics Interviews-
SQL:
1. Beginner
- Fundamentals: SELECT, WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY, HAVING
- Essential JOINS: INNER, LEFT, RIGHT, FULL
- Basics of database and table creation
2. Intermediate
- Aggregate functions: COUNT, SUM, AVG, MAX, MIN
- Subqueries and nested queries
- Common Table Expressions with the WITH clause
- Conditional logic in queries using CASE statements
3. Advanced
- Complex JOIN techniques: self-join, non-equi join
- Window functions: OVER, PARTITION BY, ROW_NUMBER, RANK, DENSE_RANK, lead, lag
- Query optimization through indexing
- Manipulating data: INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE
Python:
1. Basics
- Understanding syntax, variables, and data types: integers, floats, strings, booleans
- Control structures: if-else, loops (for, while)
- Core data structures: lists, dictionaries, sets, tuples
- Functions and error handling: lambda functions, try-except
- Using modules and packages
2. Pandas & Numpy
- DataFrames and Series: creation and manipulation
- Techniques: indexing, selecting, filtering
- Handling missing data with fillna and dropna
- Data aggregation: groupby, data summarizing
- Data merging techniques: merge, join, concatenate
3. Visualization
- Plotting basics with Matplotlib: line plots, bar plots, histograms
- Advanced visualization with Seaborn: scatter plots, box plots, pair plots
- Plot customization: sizes, labels, legends, colors
- Introduction to interactive visualizations with Plotly
Excel:
1. Basics
- Cell operations and basic formulas: SUMIFS, COUNTIFS, AVERAGEIFS
- Charts and introductory data visualization
- Data sorting and filtering, Conditional formatting
2. Intermediate
- Advanced formulas: V/XLOOKUP, INDEX-MATCH, complex IF scenarios
- Summarizing data with PivotTables and PivotCharts
- Tools for data validation and what-if analysis: Data Tables, Goal Seek
3. Advanced
- Utilizing array formulas and sophisticated functions
- Building a Data Model & using Power Pivot
- Advanced filtering, Slicers and Timelines in Pivot Tables
- Crafting dynamic charts and interactive dashboards
Power BI:
1. Data Modeling
- Importing data from diverse sources
- Creating and managing dataset relationships
- Data modeling essentials: star schema, snowflake schema
2. Data Transformation
- Data cleaning and transformation with Power Query
- Advanced data shaping techniques
- Implementing calculated columns and measures with DAX
3. Data Visualization and Reporting
- Developing interactive reports and dashboards
- Visualization types: bar, line, pie charts, maps
- Report publishing and sharing, scheduling data refreshes
Statistics:
Mean, Median, Mode, Standard Deviation, Variance, Probability Distributions, Hypothesis Testing, P-values, Confidence Intervals, Correlation, Simple Linear Regression, Normal Distribution, Binomial Distribution, Poisson Distribution
SQL:
1. Beginner
- Fundamentals: SELECT, WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY, HAVING
- Essential JOINS: INNER, LEFT, RIGHT, FULL
- Basics of database and table creation
2. Intermediate
- Aggregate functions: COUNT, SUM, AVG, MAX, MIN
- Subqueries and nested queries
- Common Table Expressions with the WITH clause
- Conditional logic in queries using CASE statements
3. Advanced
- Complex JOIN techniques: self-join, non-equi join
- Window functions: OVER, PARTITION BY, ROW_NUMBER, RANK, DENSE_RANK, lead, lag
- Query optimization through indexing
- Manipulating data: INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE
Python:
1. Basics
- Understanding syntax, variables, and data types: integers, floats, strings, booleans
- Control structures: if-else, loops (for, while)
- Core data structures: lists, dictionaries, sets, tuples
- Functions and error handling: lambda functions, try-except
- Using modules and packages
2. Pandas & Numpy
- DataFrames and Series: creation and manipulation
- Techniques: indexing, selecting, filtering
- Handling missing data with fillna and dropna
- Data aggregation: groupby, data summarizing
- Data merging techniques: merge, join, concatenate
3. Visualization
- Plotting basics with Matplotlib: line plots, bar plots, histograms
- Advanced visualization with Seaborn: scatter plots, box plots, pair plots
- Plot customization: sizes, labels, legends, colors
- Introduction to interactive visualizations with Plotly
Excel:
1. Basics
- Cell operations and basic formulas: SUMIFS, COUNTIFS, AVERAGEIFS
- Charts and introductory data visualization
- Data sorting and filtering, Conditional formatting
2. Intermediate
- Advanced formulas: V/XLOOKUP, INDEX-MATCH, complex IF scenarios
- Summarizing data with PivotTables and PivotCharts
- Tools for data validation and what-if analysis: Data Tables, Goal Seek
3. Advanced
- Utilizing array formulas and sophisticated functions
- Building a Data Model & using Power Pivot
- Advanced filtering, Slicers and Timelines in Pivot Tables
- Crafting dynamic charts and interactive dashboards
Power BI:
1. Data Modeling
- Importing data from diverse sources
- Creating and managing dataset relationships
- Data modeling essentials: star schema, snowflake schema
2. Data Transformation
- Data cleaning and transformation with Power Query
- Advanced data shaping techniques
- Implementing calculated columns and measures with DAX
3. Data Visualization and Reporting
- Developing interactive reports and dashboards
- Visualization types: bar, line, pie charts, maps
- Report publishing and sharing, scheduling data refreshes
Statistics:
Mean, Median, Mode, Standard Deviation, Variance, Probability Distributions, Hypothesis Testing, P-values, Confidence Intervals, Correlation, Simple Linear Regression, Normal Distribution, Binomial Distribution, Poisson Distribution
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