Common Pitfalls of Qualitative Methods

Qualitative methods like interviews, focus groups, observations, and storytelling are great tools for Business Analysts. They help us understand people’s feelings, behaviors, and experiences—things numbers alone can’t explain. But these methods also come with some common problems. If we’re not careful, they can affect the quality of our research. In this post, I’ll walk you …

Why You Should Become a Data Analyst and NOT a Data Scientist

The amount of hype data scientist job family has received is real. Let me tell you three reasons why data analyst job family might be a better one than a data scientist. Quick disclaimer, this article is not to bash any job family. Every job family has a place of its own. This article is …

My Top 3 Tableau courses Out Of 20 For Visualization

If you’ve ever tried to truly master Tableau, you’ll know there are more courses, certificates and resources out there than you could ever possibly get through in a single year. Actually, there are probably so many out there that completing them might even take a lifetime or more. Lucky for you, I’ve already tried and …

Why 99% of Self-Taught Programmers Fail

Why do so many self-taught coders fail or get stuck, lose momentum, or feel like they are not making progress even after months of tutorials? I have been there. Whether you’re learning software engineering, data science, AI, ML, WebDAV, or product engineering, this applies. I became a self-taught data analyst and then a data scientist, …

I Tried 50 Data Analyst Courses. Here Are The Top 5

I’ve started so many data analytics courses and only finished and completed a very few of these as I found many of them to be too long with content that contains too much fluff and not enough practical hands-on learning. Whether that’s YouTube, Udemy, Coursera or edX, my average course completion rate reflects the average …

3 Skills You Need to Make You Stand Out for DATA ANALYST Jobs

This blog is not about the traditional roadmap to become a data analyst showing you the bare minimum of what you need. This blog is about showing you and teaching you skills with actionable examples that will make you stand out for a data analyst job or any other analyst job. I like getting straight …

What Programming Languages You Should Learn First As a Data Scientist

Are you trying to get into data science and not sure which languages to learn? Well, you are on the right blog. This is exactly what we’re going to talk about today. I’m going to share what languages you should get started with. So by the end of this article, hopefully you’ll have a really …