The Clark's Nutcracker has landed! That's the bird on the cover of Advancing into Analytics, copies of which I received the other day. There's that new author enthusiasm! You can now get your …
Why data analysts should learn to code
When many hear "data analytics" these days, they think of graphical user interface (GUI)-driven business intelligence (e.g. Tableau), data warehousing (e.g. Snowflake), or data preparation (e.g. …
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The learning theories behind Advancing into Analytics
Technical books are curious in a lot of ways, including this one: most technical authors don't typically teach or write for a living. They're technicians who happen to write a book. That means that …
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Why most “coding for spreadsheet users” training fails
Excel is arguably the world's largest coding community, with 750 million users worldwide. Many of us, myself included, get introduced to the data world from Excel. But the thing is... Excel is not …
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Join me on Clubhouse: “Analytics in Excel, Python and R” April 21st at 8pm Eastern
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Five reasons I wrote Advancing into Analytics
The thing that struck me about writing a book is just how much it is like starting a business: you can do your research and assemble a meticulous plan, but you can't quite know what the result will …
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