Data Wrangling

2Skills and Responsibilities of Data Wrangler

Prabhjot Kaur, Anupama Kaushik and Aditya Kapoor*

Department of Information Technology, Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology, Janak Puri, New Delhi, India

Abstract

The following chapter will draw emphasis on the right skill set that must be possessed by the administrators to be able to handle the data and draw interpretations from it. Technical skill set includes knowledge of statistical languages, such as R, Python, and SQL. Data administrators also use tools like Excel, PoweBI, Tableau for data visualization. The chapter aims to draw emphasis on the requirement of much needed soft skills, which provide them an edge over easy management of not just the data but also human resources available to them. Soft skills include effective communication between the clients and team to yield the desired results. Presentation skills are certainly crucial for a data engineer, so as to be able to effectively communicate what the data has to express. It is an ideal duty of a data engineer to make the data speak. The effectiveness of a data engineer in their tasks comes when the data speaks for them. The chapter also deals with the responsibilities as a data administrator. An individual who is well aware of the responsibilities can put their skill set and resources to the right use and add on to productivity of his team thus yielding better results. Here we will go through responsibilities like data extraction, data transformation, security, ...