Analytics Programming: Everything You Need to Know When Assessing Analytics Programming Skills

Analytics Programming

This page is about the skill Analytics Programming, which is one of more than 40 technical skills you can assess on Alooba. The Analytics Programming skill is mainly about how to use Python or R for typical tasks in data analysis & data science. The participant idate gets to choose between being quizzed in Python or R. Candidates will need to do things like: identify the right Python or R code to answer a business problem, identify errors in Python or R code, identify output of Python or R code, interpret business questions as Python or R code etc.

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What types of things are included in the Analytics Programming skill?

The Analytics Programming skill assesses knowledge of topics in Python like Collections, Conditional Operators, Data Types, Joins, Lists, Loops, Matrices, Pandas, RegEx & Subsets.

In R, topics include Charting, Data Types, Evaluation Strategy, Loops, Joins, String Manipulation and State Management.

Which types of roles require good Analytics Programming skills?

Analytics Programming (Python & R) is a commonly assessed skill for roles like Data Analyst, Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Product Analyst and Growth Analyst.

Why should we test someone’s Analytics Programming skills?

A critical part of running an ethical hiring process that’s fair and meritocratic is having objective measures of someone’s skills. Why does ethical hiring matter? Simple - it helps you hire the best person for the job.

Robert Half reported that the cost of a bad hire is on average 15-21% of the employee’s salary.

What was the most common reason for mis-hires? A lack of the right technical skills. This a true hiring own-goal, as it’s so easily preventable through a valid, thorough skills assessment.

So, if your role requires a candidate to know Analytics Programming well, you can validate that with Alooba Assess.

Can I test my current team’s Analytics Programming skills too?

Yes you sure can. You can assess their skills using Alooba Growth.

Which tests can I find the Analytics Programming skill in?

Analytics Programming can be assessed through the Concepts & Knowledge test, and the Coding Test, where candidates write Python & R to solve problems.

Can I add my own Analytics Programming questions?

Yes, you can add your own Analytics Programming questions via the question bank.

How do I get access to Alooba to test Analytics Programming skills?

Feel free to reach out and book a quick discovery call here.

How difficult is the Analytics Programming skill?

Each question on Alooba is categorized by difficulty - Easy, Medium & Hard. You can set the difficulty level to whatever you like by picking and choosing the questions that you want to include.

What else can I assess with Alooba?

You can also assess someone’s intelligence, their personality type and critical soft skills, like communication.

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I was at WooliesX (Woolworths) and we used Alooba and it was a highly positive experience. We had a large number of candidates. At WooliesX, previously we were quite dependent on the designed test from the team leads. That was quite a manual process. We realised it would take too much time from us. The time saving is great. Even spending 15 minutes per candidate with a manual test would be huge - hours per week, but with Alooba we just see the numbers immediately.

Shen Liu, Logickube (Principal at Logickube)

We get a high flow of applicants, which leads to potentially longer lead times, causing delays in the pipelines which can lead to missing out on good candidates. Alooba supports both speed and quality. The speed to return to candidates gives us a competitive advantage. Alooba provides a higher level of confidence in the people coming through the pipeline with less time spent interviewing unqualified candidates.

Scott Crowe, Canva (Lead Recruiter - Data)

How can you accurately assess somebody's technical skills, like the same way across the board, right? We had devised a Tableau-based assessment. So it wasn't like a past/fail. It was kind of like, hey, what do they send us? Did they understand the data or the values that they're showing accurate? Where we'd say, hey, here's the credentials to access the data set. And it just wasn't really a scalable way to assess technical - just administering it, all of it was manual, but the whole process sucked!

Cole Brickley, Avicado (Director Data Science & Business Intelligence)

I wouldn't dream of hiring somebody in a technical role without doing that technical assessment because the number of times where I've had candidates either on paper on the CV, say, I'm a SQL expert or in an interview, saying, I'm brilliant at Excel, I'm brilliant at this. And you actually put them in front of a computer, say, do this task. And some people really struggle. So you have to have that technical assessment.

Mike Yates, The British Psychological Society (Head of Data & Analytics)

I was at WooliesX (Woolworths) and we used Alooba and it was a highly positive experience. We had a large number of candidates. At WooliesX, previously we were quite dependent on the designed test from the team leads. That was quite a manual process. We realised it would take too much time from us. The time saving is great. Even spending 15 minutes per candidate with a manual test would be huge - hours per week, but with Alooba we just see the numbers immediately.

Shen Liu, Logickube (Principal at Logickube)