Python is a curious animal (no pun intended) in that it wasn't exactly designed for data analysis, but with its many free packages this constraint is easily overcome. In particular, the pandas …
How data analysts can answer the question… “Tell me about yourself”
I'll be joining John David Ariansen of the How to Get an Analytics Job Podcast for a livestream Weds 3/9/2022 at 8pm Eastern on the topic of how data analytics can answer the question, "Tell me about …
Continue Reading about How data analysts can answer the question… “Tell me about yourself” →
Free checklist: 30 days to Excel data analyst
Nearly every technical profession has some tool for wireframing, prototyping and down-and-dirty work. For data analysts, that's Excel. So I find it humorous when the "tech bros" of the world …
Continue Reading about Free checklist: 30 days to Excel data analyst →
Here’s how R and Excel think similarly about data
If you're an Excel user interested in building one-of-a-kind visualizations and stretching your analytics limits, R is a great program to add to your toolkit. It's also a natural stepping-stone into …
Continue Reading about Here’s how R and Excel think similarly about data →
Statistics, data analytics, data science… oh my! (What’s the difference?)
It's one of those questions where you could ask 10 data professionals and get 11 answers: what's the difference between statistics, data science and data analytics? (How's that for sample size?) …
Continue Reading about Statistics, data analytics, data science… oh my! (What’s the difference?) →
Variables vary… and why that matters
A tabular dataset is arranged in two dimensions -- what in Excel we would call rows and columns, but a fancier statistical way of saying this is observations and variables. …
Continue Reading about Variables vary… and why that matters →