Sharing a passion for people, bringing joy to work, and data. Perpetual newbie. #LetsLearnTogether
I just signed up for this brand new Python course…might be even the first student! 🙂
Courses from the SuperDataScience team are always a great purchase on Udemy. You can get this course for only $17 for 48 hours using this link.
I’m a beginner with Python, which I find painful to say because I used to be a Perl guru.
Either way, even if you aren’t personally interested in data science, Python is a tool to become adept at…and here’s a great course to help with that.
Tonight I began Matt Dancho’s course, “DSB4B 201-R: Data Science for Business with R.” Even though I’ve only done the intro section, I am already glad I invested in the class. Clearly a well thought out, professional offering.
Now to hit Matt up on the course’s Slack channel to see if my coming up short on the baseline quiz means I need to go read-up to get a foundation first. 🙂
I’ll tag all my posts about the course with “DS4B 201-R” if you want to follow my experiences…
If you use Excel as a tool, this video about its future dynamic arrays functions is worth a view (it’s pretty exciting):
I was hoping the trick she showed at 3:30 in would already work:
But, alas, it didn’t on my Macbook Pro nor my Surface Go…
Seeing Leila be able to access the upcoming features makes me want to get access to Microsoft’s early review program…but…if you are like me…what you put together is really only valuable if others can also take advantage of it.
Either way, something to look forward to!
I have never felt so inadequate…
…were my exact words during lunch today…three quarters of the way through the 2018 DataScienceGO conference here in San Diego. I am working a lot with data, but the #DSGO2018 training and presentations made this 25+ year IT veteran feel like a newbie. So many concepts, approaches, and tools to learn!
However, two things inspired me to consider today the first day of my data science career:
And I know #2 from experience in that I chatted with many of the leaders and speakers, and not only did they spend quite a bit of time with me…it was clear they wanted to. Not only with me, but the myriad other conference attendees. As I noted, I’ve been in IT a long time, and if you’ve ever seen what happens when someone just starting in a technology asks an expert a rookie question…
Well, it isn’t pretty. 🙂
No so with data science. I have never seen such genuine warmth and camaraderie in IT.
However, I am very tuckered…and want to grab something to eat before climbing on plane back to Denver…so I am going to wrap up my first post on my new blog to celebrate the first day of my new career with a picture that helps show #2 above. Here is “Data Guy (Me)” with the two top dogs of the conference, Kirill Emeremenko and Pablos Holman:
Great job to you, your speakers, and you team gentlemen!