I have become an Data Analyst after many years in Software Development. As a team we are studying the DAMA DMBOK c.f. http://www.dama.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pa

I have become an Data Analyst after many years in Software Development. As a team we are studying the DAMA DMBOK c.f. http://www.dama.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3345 http://www.dama.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3345 which is the Data Management Body of Knowledge in order to become certified Data Management Professionals. A Data Analyst might not be exactly what you want to do as you might be analysing a large Enterprise's data to find out about it's data's quality, what is the definition of the meaning of the data and whether it is the master data or a copy or derived from some other data etc. It looks very a dry area of study initially but an awful number of real world problems are problems with data that fall into predictable patterns.