Which major should I choose to become a Data Analyst?

I'm a freshman at a technology university and I want to be a Data Analyst. What major I should choose to learn: Computer Science or Science in Information Systems? And what skills do I need to equip to be a good Data Analyst?

Group of topics: Artificial Intelligent, Domain-driven Data Mining, Predictive Analytics or the other: Software Project Management, Distributed Database, which one is more related to Data analysis?

I'm quite puzzled and worried so I hope that professionals may give me some advice. Please help me!!!

Topic career

Category Data Science

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Data Science and Data Analysis are 2 different things (though closely related). A Data Scientist can do all the things that a Data Analyst can do but a Data Analyst cannot do all the things a Data Scientist can do. Just to give a flavor, a data scientist deals with data acquiring, data analysis, Machine Learning model creation and model deployment (although this might differ from company to company). Areas covered are Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP and much more.

But a Data Analyst deals with business intelligence tools and data to analyze the data and improve the business. 99.99% of the time Data Analyst does not have to create and deploy Machine Learning models.

Knowledge topics required for a Data Scientist are (roughly) Math, Statistics, Computer vision, Data Structures and Algorithms and Domain Knowledge.

For a Data Analyst (roughly), Domain Knowledge, expertise in Business Intelligence tools (think Excel, PowerBI etc) and Business strategies.

So it depends what field you want to opt for. If you go for Data Science, make sure you have the above skills/knowledge and the same goes for Data analyst.

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