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Business Analyst v/s Data Analyst


Responsibilities:

Business Analyst: A business analyst works with the clients. He/she has to understand what they need and what the problems that they face. Then they work with the managers and try to figure out how to coordinate within their team. The next thing that they do is use current data to outline the problem, so they analyze the data and understand what their client wants so that they can describe to the team what they are trying to solve and what they're looking for, and the next thing that they're going to do is an outline and communicate what the client wants to the team what is the problem what are they trying to solve and how are we going to get there and often time the business analyst is going to do all the analysis around that and then actually hand it off to either the programming team or a data analyst to look into this further and solve the issue.

Data Analyst: A data analyst works with programming teams that collect and analyze the data. The difference between the aforesaid is that a business analyst is typically works most with the client-side and with the managers while a data analyst works more with the programming side. Next, they use pre-existing data actually solve the problem and so a business analyst is going to bring the problem and define the problem and bring that to the programming team and then the data analyst along with the programmers or the developers are going to solve the problem and figure out a solution. Next, they're going to create reports and dashboards and that is a part of basically any data analyst job where you’re creating some type of visualization and the very last thing that you're going to do is present analytical findings to the team.

So, the business analyst is going to bring the problem to the team where the data analyst is going to present back to the team with their findings and with a possible or potential solution.


Qualifications:

Business Analyst: For a business analyst role you're going to need a bachelor's degree, typically it's going to be something in business administration, finance, economics, something business-related. Sometimes you might need a master's degree and for the most part where you see business analysts as they often have MBAs. Data analysts typically don't have MBAs.

Data Analyst: For a data analyst role you also would need a bachelor's degree and that's typically in something like computer science, statistics, mathematics, economics, or finance, and as you can see there is a lot of overlap between the business analyst and the data analyst. And you also may need a master's for some positions and typically isn't an MBA like a business analyst, sometimes they're looking for things like statistics or mathematics or an actual analytics master's degree and so those are some of the qualifications between these two positions.



Skills:

Business Analyst: For a business analyst, you're going to need skills like SQL, Microsoft Access, and Excel and those are some of the more technical skills that you're going to need but you're also going to need really good soft skills such as communication skills, presentation skills, and just general people skills be able to communicate and talk effectively with the clients or with the team.

Data Analyst: For a Data Analyst you're going to need a little bit more technical skills, so you're going to be using things like SQL or Python, tableau, or a data visualization tool. You're going to be doing data modeling so you'll need to know SAS or SPSS, Excel, and then some type of cloud platform like Azor or Amazon Web Services.


Salary:

Business Analyst: Looking at the salary for the business analyst, for an entry-level position you can find anything from 35000-50000 INR per month and for a mid-level you can find 50000-75000 INR per month. For a senior anything between 75000 to 90000 INR per month.

Data Analyst: For a data analyst at an entry-level position, you can find 45000-60000 INR per month for a mid-level you can find 65000-85000 INR per month and for a senior-level position anything from 85000-110000.





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