An environmental data analyst is a professional trained to work in the public and private sector in the gathering, processing, and analysis of data related to renewable and non-renewable natural resources that impact the environment. Working with statistics and other raw data to produce readable reports. Most of them are professionals in the environmental area who specialize in data analysis, and in other cases professionals related to statistics or computer science who are linked to the environmental area.
To be a data analyst in the environmental field you must handle spreadsheets at a more advanced level, SQL, programming languages such as R or Phyton and visualization tools such as Google Charts, Tableau or Grafana, many entities seek that these professionals also have knowledge of digital cartography, interpreting and elaborating maps in GIS, Quantum GIS or gVSIG.
