Many people are looking for mentorship, and good mentorship is not always easy to find. Not all mentorship needs to be in person though! Books, podcast interviews, blog posts – these are all valuable sources of career guidance and advice. I’ve scoured a lot of books, articles and videos over …
A somewhat big disadvantage of being the first data hire is that you are likely to be the only âdata personâ for quite a while. Even when you arenât alone, you will likely be the most senior hire for some time. This means you wonât be able to learn from …
A caution for newbies If youâre still looking for a job as a first data hire, then I suggest you don’t read this book. Rather find the job and come back to this later. Depending on how you bought this book, consider asking for a refund! This guide is meant …
Here’s the work in progress for the Content of the guide I’m working on for first data hires. Your mindset Data framework (~15 elements) (could be a little book on its own?) Making Roadmaps and scenarios Fallback systems (good for them, good for you) What to expect (blank slates, lots …
Some folks at work expressed an interest in how to get started learning R. There are lots of resources out there, but I thought I’d share with you what I shared with them as a pathway that I followed that’s working out well for me. You donât need all these …
People using R for analysis or data science might have heard that the R community is really active on Twitter, but feel a bit lost when trying to figure out how to use Twitter. Like most social media apps, there’s a bit of a learning curve to get going. In …
In the foreseeable future, at least rudimentary forms of data analysis will find its way to many jobs, much as email has done. However, I donât think that everyone needs to be a deep-learning ninja, needs to know what Kuburnetes is or even how to do a docker-hub (đ). In …
In this post I’ll be setting out my view for why you may want to learn to code in R rather than in Python, or at least try R. At the end of this post I also share some suggestions for getting started with either. Some background on my …
UPDATE: Some time after writing this post, I discovered a feature in Excel that broke my hear a little, so my love for Excel is slightly diminished Check out the post here. It feels a bit weird to write a post about MS Excel, but I feel compelled to and …
Photo Credit: Warenski The fine folks at Open Up recently published an open data set of recorded fire incidents in the City of Cape Town, South Africa. I found it quite interesting that such a data set was available, so I thought Iâd explore the data a little to see …
