you are becoming a data analyst or already working as a data analyst but everybody keeps telling you
that your job will be automated in five years and it makes you wonder if you should change
your career path Forbes recently published an article with this Sensational headline
specifically targeting the Analyst job family when I saw the article and the headline I was
immediately taken aback I was like why why are analysts being targeted specifically by
not other job families that are at more risk in my opinion it is a scary headline if you don't read
the entire article so as somebody who has worked in the data science domain for almost 10 years I
wanted to dedicate this video if the advancement in Ai and tools such as charge apt bard
GitHub called pilot will automate data analysts your family and I don't know where that five-year
number is coming from but five years five years it is Will data analytics be automated with AI
the short answer is yes and no let me explain this with a few examples so we're going to take
hypothetical example we have two people who work as data analyst we have Jack and we have
Jessica okay I came up with those names so Jack and Jessica they sound like brother and sister
sorry getting off topic so Jack and Jessica so Jack works as a data analyst Jessica works as
a data analyst now what is different about their roles Jack's primary job is to prepare daily sales
report and send it to the VP he basically pulls the data he basically pulls the data
using SQL query puts the data in Excel creates some pivot tables on top of it create some nice
plots and tables and then sends that email to the VP Jessica also works at the data analyst
her primary work includes reporting but as well as doing some critical thinking to improve the
product using data her day-to-day work is not as straightforward she has to do a lot of critical
thinking and analytical thinking to come up with new creative ideas to solve the problems or find
existing problems in the product that customers are facing so we have Jack and we have Jessica
so in this two hypothetical cases Jack's role includes a lot of repetitive work basically
his work pretty much every day he does the same thing but Jessica her work involves a
lot of thinking a lot of analytical skills so in this case whose job is going to be automated in
five years two years or whatever years that is going to be Jack because Jack's job is pretty
repetitive there's a process around it and it can be easily automated using AI tools whereas
Jessica Jessica uses a lot of critical thinking a lot of analytical thinking her role is also a
data analyst but and she does do some repetitive work and there will be some element of her job
that will be automated but the core of her job will not be automated before we talk about how
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prove your skills as a data analyst so the takeaway from these two from Jack and Jessica's
role is that there are going to be certain elements of the job that will be automated
but there are going to be a big chunk of the data analytics role which involves solving problems for
using data is big chunk of that that involves the analytical skills involve the critical thinking
skills will not be automated and if you read the Forbes article in its completion you will
actually get to that conclusion but for somebody who's not in the data industry they probably don't
understand what those repetitive tasks mean so hopefully having these examples held clarified
for you what exactly when they say that repetitive tasks will be automated that's what they mean So
for anybody who's currently working in the data analytics domain or trying to enter here are
three things that you can do to Future proof your skills number one is prioritize the work
that involves critical thinking and analytical thinking prioritize the work that involves
the bright side of your brain that involves critical thinking that involves problem solving
that involves a lot of analytical skills the second is AI is not going anywhere so in order
to keep yourself up with the technology learn these tools learn how to use these AI tools such
as chargpt Bard and any other coding tool to make your work more efficient automate the repetitive
work so you can focus your time on more critical and analytical work third is keep upskilling
whether you take Advanced data analytics courses learn new coding language advance in existing
coding language that you know learn statistics and much more anyways I wanted to keep this video
short and sweet if you like this video give this video a thumbs up and let me know in the comments
what are your thoughts on this topic do you think data analytics job will be automated in five years
if yes what element of the data analytics job will be automated and if not what elements will
not be automated let me know in the comments and I will see you in the next video have a good one bye