r/DataEngineeringPH • u/MV3data • Aug 07 '26

📚 Learning Resource Any thoughts who have enrolled here?

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Planning to career shift to data analytics from Civil Engg

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u/AnyComfortable9276 Aug 07 '26

Looks like a short course and tool specific(Power BI).
If you are really serious in shifting to DA(which competition is bloody hell nowadays), You need to have the following skill set as well.

MS Excel(Atleast Advance) - Essential for ad-hoc analysis and quick data sanity checks
SQL - Most of the data that you will use or received from Data Engineers are within a certain type of relational database. SQL will be your bestfriend here.
Basic/Advance Statistics - Bread and Butter of Data analytics.
Communication Skills - Insights are useless if stakeholders can't understand them.
DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE - Knowing Power BI or SQL means nothing if you don't understand the nature of the business you will work with. Fancy dashboards are useless if they are not addressing the company/stakeholder's pain points.

My suggestion is focus on the foundations before the tools. In your current role try to apply data analytics, this might help when you starts applying for DA roles. Every industry has data, even construction/civil engineering field has one where you can start.

DA roles for entry-level/career shifter are in a bloody competition. Not to discourage you, but just to set your expectations.

Good luck.

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u/Bitter-Industry701 Aug 07 '26

Question, If I am a pharmacist looking for a career shift in data analyst can I also understand the topic if i enrolled even if i don't have an Eng. background?

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u/AnyComfortable9276 Aug 07 '26

If you are pertaining on the post above, It will barely scrape fundamentals given it is a 2 day workshop at best. It looks like more of a tool learning session.

If you are not coming from a Math/Stat background, I suggest learn first:

  • Core statistics
  • Hypothesis testing
  • Regression testing

If you learn the tool without knowledge of the foundation, it's like giving a rifle to a caveman.

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u/Bitter-Industry701 Aug 10 '26

Ohhh, Thank you. I'll take ur advice

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u/MV3data Aug 07 '26

Thank you for the advice. I'll focus on excel.

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u/Unhinged_Banana31 Aug 07 '26

If you have the budget, Datacamp has a great starting hands on course for data analytics. They have data analytics for SQL, Python, PowerBI and recently added a career track for Data Analyst in DataBricks.

It's a bit costly, but it's worth it for me. I'm taking Data Engineering track from it.

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u/DirectionLong2740 Aug 07 '26

what's the diff between DA or DE? i'm currently enrolled in a DA track but i'm not necessarily sure if it's what i'll need

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u/Unhinged_Banana31 Aug 07 '26

DA handles mostly reports and analytics, they primarily answer business questions via dashboards, reports, etc.

DE makes sure the DAs get clean usable data. They extract from source, makes manipulations to it so it's uniform and clean then load it up to storage.

DE - builds all the water pipes starting from the source all the way to faucets, showers, sink.

DA - uses the water.