What Personality Traits Do You Need for Data Analytics?
Be a hybrid, not a one-trait pony.
Great data analysts are unicorns: part scientist and part creative genius. Most overdevelop math skills and underdevelop liberal arts, counterfactual thinking, and curiosity.
These traits "normally" don't go together. By "normally," I mean we track each other as either creative or science-y. That stinks because the best data analysts are hybrids.
Your opportunity is to buck that trend: develop both traits.
Einstein said it best in The Evolution of Physics in 1938: "To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."
Take it from Einstein: Imagination is just as, if not more important, than knowledge. Develop both, and you'll soar.
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