Real Estate Analyst Education / Skillset

[Kyle Myers]

Is anyone here ever been a commercial real estate analyst or real estate investment analyst as their profession? 

Would love to know what it takes skillset/background wise to get a role like that and what day to day is like. I'm currently working in commercial property mgmt, but interest lies in evaluation of deals and working with data and would like to do more of that in my day to day job if possible.