What is the best thing to study for a future business analyst?

Question

Python

The preamble is this: I am a third-year student; one of the possible options for future employment is work as a business analyst; there is a craving for programming, but at a serious level I have never done it (at the university there was a bit of python, pluses, sql, vba, web development).
Well, now the point. Now the choice of term papers begins, which can to some extent determine topics and diplomas, and, most importantly, they will help to get some kind of skills for work. I am considering two options; take a theme to implement, which can be done using qlikview or similar tools, or there is a theme associated with a hierarchical
clustering and implementation in python. Need your advice on what will be more useful in the future? Does it even make sense to bother with python? How relevant is it in the field of analytics and just not for pure programmers? I really need advice from people who know this stuff.
PS Sorry, if there is a lot of text, it haunts me very much)

Answer 1

It seems that the answer to the question posed is better to look for among those who constantly analyze data at work, and not among Pythonists.
A Google search for the phrase "python data analysis" already shows that python is used for this much more often than, say, C ++, java, php and others, and that yes, python, due to the low entry threshold, is popular in this capacity among non-professional programmers.
Of the free tools, python's competitor in this matter is r (in search engines it is better to search for "r-project")

Answer 2

You don't have any

future employment

if in the first year you did not start working according to your profile
Look for a job according to your profile or closer to it

Answer 3

We do not have business analysts and this profession is almost not in demand. Python is just a tool, relevant everywhere, you googled large analytical packages for business, but you won’t be able to understand them on theory, you need practice and real data.

Answer 4

In fact, I could not find an unambiguous answer to this question, in addition, my main profession has something in common with the profession of a business analyst, therefore, I decided to build on the processes themselves in business analytics, and, accordingly, the choice of software for development.