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Why become an Affiliate member of the Institute of Analytics?
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Accessible, beginner level and foundational decision intelligence training
Work towards our Associate (AIoA) employability status
In a survey of 16,000 employers across the USA, Europe and Asia in 2024, the vast majority said they were looking to hire people with digital competency and data analysis skills.
Get in front of hiring panels
Decision intelligence is hotly in demand. By combining the best of human and machine intelligence, you can really stand out in the hiring market. Employers across diverse industries and roles are actively seeking candidates with digital and data competencies.
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Check our description of expected skills you will gain during your time as an Affiliate.
- Cleans complex data sets and joins efficiently
- Systematically approaches exploratory data analysis
- Creates new data features
- Identifies appropriate solutions from a range of options
- Critically evaluates results
- Identifies and applies data controls and synthesises data from different sources
- Identifies erroneous data risks
- Explains known benefits and issues with technical approaches
- Applies appropriate evaluation metrics
- Confidently present orally and in writing
- Embeds visuals in data stories
- Produces work aligned to recognised standards
- Shares lessons learnt with the team
- Identifies data value to own sector
- Identifies or elicits project requirements
- Manages risk in own work and manage expectations
- Critically evaluates own work and learn from experience
Our Affiliates are typically able to do the tasks below, or are learning to do tasks at this level
- Carry out some simple, foundational statistical analysis
- produce visualisations with some flexibility in terms of labelling, colour and chart choice, and drawing attention to core features
- intentionally join data sets on key variables
- create new features of data (e.g. one hot encoding or dummy variables, mathematical summations and data filtering)
- produce interactive visualisations and work with map data
- work on both downloaded data tables and cloud data sets
- manage data version control
- work independently within a data privacy regulations framework
- produce a schema to promote data reuse and with respect to copyright laws
- carry out simple hypothesis testing
- separate data into a train and test split intentionally
- Create surveys for data collection
- carry out analytics to support decision making in key areas (e.g. risk management or financial prediction)
- interpret results with awareness of nuance and meaning
Special Offer
Make the most of membership by joining with your fellow professionals. If you have a group of 5 or more who would like to join together, contact membership@ioaglobal.org for special rates. Join together and support each other in your careers.