No, but basic statistics is needed.

Data Analyst (Korea)

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Answers business questions with SQL, statistics and visualisation; distinct from data scientists and engineers.

Contents

1. History and scholarship
2. What the job involves
3. Hiring and careers
4. FAQ
5. References

History and scholarship

Modern statistics builds on Ronald Fisher (1925). John Tukey's 'The Future of Data Analysis' (1962) and EDA (1977) defined data analysis as its own field. Codd's relational model (1970, CACM) underlies SQL; Breiman (2001) contrasted 'two cultures'; Davenport and Patil (2012, HBR) heralded data roles; Wickham (2014) and Donoho (2017) extended the scholarship.

What the job involves

Metric design, dashboards, SQL, statistics and A/B tests, visualisation and stakeholder communication. Scope and required skills vary by company and industry; check actual job postings and NCS job descriptions.

Hiring and careers

SQLD, ADsP and Big Data Analyst support applications; portfolios matter. Works with performance marketing.

FAQ

Is Python required?: SQL is basic; Python/R varies.
Need a stats degree?: No, but basic statistics is needed.

Sources reviewed: 2026-10-26

References

Fisher, R. A. (1925). Statistical Methods for Research Workers. Oliver & Boyd.
Tukey, J. W. (1962). The future of data analysis. Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 33(1), 1–67.
Tukey, J. W. (1977). Exploratory Data Analysis. Addison-Wesley.
Codd, E. F. (1970). A relational model of data for large shared data banks. Communications of the ACM, 13(6), 377–387.
Breiman, L. (2001). Statistical modeling: The two cultures. Statistical Science, 16(3), 199–231.
Davenport, T. H., & Patil, D. J. (2012). Data scientist: The sexiest job of the 21st century. Harvard Business Review, 90(10), 70–76.
Wickham, H. (2014). Tidy data. Journal of Statistical Software, 59(10), 1–23.
Donoho, D. (2017). 50 years of data science. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 26(4), 745–766.
국가직무능력표준(NCS). https://www.ncs.go.kr
고용24 직업정보(고용노동부·한국고용정보원). https://www.work24.go.kr

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