What makes a great analyst, and how do you interview to find one? These are topics close to my heart and mission, and I had a great time speaking with those who feel the same at Enterprise DNA, an analytics community specializing in Power BI. Among other topics, we discussed ...

I’m excited to share that I’ll be presenting to the MS Excel Toronto meetup on Weds 12/8 at 5p Eastern. The topic is “What Excel Users Should Know about Python.” This is a free online event. Register now for this free online event. I’ve presented to this meetup ...

Kick-start your journey into data analytics; read the book later About this event Free signed copy of Advancing into Analytics Workshop recording Demo notes and handouts If you’re an analyst or researcher looking to level up your data analysis skills, this is the workshop and book for you. After ...

Data analytics is iterative like the sky is blue… what does that actually mean? I get the sense from many new analysts that they’ve spent a decent amount of time looking through the data and trying different things, and they get that things aren’t linear, but they still ...

Getting into analytics can be overwhelming: so many tools to learn and techniques to apply. Advancing into Analytics is a great start made even better with practice and supplemental knowledge. That’s where a class can come in handy, and I’m excited to share that I’m working on ...

Advancing into Analytics is a wide-reaching a technical book: starting with the foundations of analytics of Excel, readers are introduced to data manipulation, visualization and hypothesis in both Python and R. Learning all this in one book is possible because of what Excel users already know about working with data: ...

I have written about Python, the open source programming language, throughout the blog. However, I understand that my readers, traditionally Excel users, may not have Python installed on their machines or done much programming before. The purpose of this resource guide, then, is to serve as a “mission control” for ...

If you work with data, you need a good laugh every now and again. And nothing says “Internet break” like a good meme trawl. Now, I like a meme just like the next guy, but I have trouble thinking of my own. One (possible) exception is in the category of ...