Most Important Skills for a Director of Business Intelligence at Houston Rockets
For a Business Intelligence Director at the Houston Rockets, the most important skills fall into two categories: hard skills such as "coding with SQL" for data extraction and transformation, along with data visualization skills using platforms like Tableau and Power BI, and soft skills, specifically "being able to translate those really technical or analytical topics" to non-technical stakeholders. Thus, the director's role necessitates both a strong technical foundation and the ability to communicate complex information effectively.
Data Analysis, Communication, Business Intelligence, Data Visualization, SQL
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Michael Wing
Director of Business Intelligence
Houston Rockets
Northeastern University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MBA
Engineering - Mechanical
Consulting & Related Professional Services, Sports & Fitness
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None Applicable
Video Highlights
1. SQL coding is very important for extracting and transforming data.
2. Data visualization skills using tools like Tableau, Power BI, and Looker are essential for creating visual assets from data.
3. The ability to translate technical and analytical topics into easily understandable terms for non-technical stakeholders is crucial.
Transcript
What skills are most important for a job like yours?
I bucket it into two areas: hard skills and soft skills. For hard skills, a lot of that revolves around working with data. Coding with SQL is very important, as well as coding languages for transforming and extracting data.
This is to get it into a form where you can help distribute it to other folks. Data visualization is another technical skill that I think is very important. This involves using platforms like Tableau, Power BI, or Looker to help make visual assets out of the data.
The other side, soft skills, is really being able to translate those really technical or analytical topics to something that non-technical or non-analytical, or just busy stakeholders, can best understand. So, I would say those two areas, hard skills and soft skills, are probably the most important.