This page is about the skill Data Analysis, which is one of more than 40 technical skills you can assess on Alooba. The Data Analysis skill assesses core analytical skills. It involves being presented with some basic information about a business, and some small (<1MB) datasets to download at the start of the test. Normally this test is tackled with MS Excel, Python, R, PowerBI, SQL or any other analytical tool of choice. Tasks involved include: cleansing of the data, and then some filtering, grouping, aggregation etc. Once the correct answers are calculated in the analytical tool, they are then selected in the browser in the MCQ quiz.
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The Data Analysis skill assesses knowledge of things like importing data, data wrangling/cleansing, data aggregations, data filtering, defining metrics & basic calculations.
Data Analysis is a commonly assessed skill for roles such as Data Analyst, Product Analyst & Marketing Analyst.
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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 Data Analysis well, you can validate that with Alooba Assess.
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Data Analysis can be assessed through the dedicated Data Analysis test.
Yes, you can add your own Data Analysis questions via the question bank.
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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.
You can also assess someone’s intelligence, their personality type and critical soft skills, like communication.