Nothing like a click-baity headline to get your spreadsheet emotion all riled up amirite? Earlier in my data analysis career, I thought knowing advanced Excel formulas and writing macros made you a good analyst. If you’ve been following this podcast/newsletter, you’ve probably discovered that there is no one magic Excel feature that automatically makes you […]
You might think not having a data background means it’ll be tougher for you to get a career in data. For Preksha Kaparwan, co-founder and CMO at Alphaa AI, the journey into data was anything but traditional. In this episode, Preksha talks about starting her career in the hospitality industry, falling in love with data […]
Unlike the NBA, you can’t easily pick and choose the top “plays” of 2021 in the data analytics field like you can with basketball games. This list is by no means exhaustive and is just based on my reading of news and trends in the data analytics world. It’s easy to talk about big changes […]
I was playing around with a dataset on TikTok recently to show a PivotTable trick. The raw data is a list of all Friends episodes that have aired starting in 1994. I noticed that the raw data requires some cleanup so decided to take the dataset and to some cleaning operations and also try out […]
I haven’t seen a good use case or template for the GOOGLETRANSLATE function in Google Sheets. I was inspired by Blake Burge’s Top 8 Google Sheets Tweet and thought a bit more about when you might use GOOGLETRANSLATE in Google Sheets. I suppose if you work as a translator or at the United Nations, you […]
I love a good deal, especially when it comes to getting a good flight. Ever since I got into churning a few years ago (signing up for credit cards to get rewards), I started booking flights primarily with reward points from these credit cards. I spend more time searching for flights with good point redemptions […]
I finished watching Squid Game a few weeks ago and still have all these swirling thoughts about the series. Through a few basic survival games, the show brings to light wealth inequality, capitalism, and other aspects of the human condition. Trying to find the loose threads between the show’s deeper meaning and data literacy is […]
When you’re creating some dashboard or report, one of the most common formatting operations you’ll find yourself doing is expanding the column width to fit the text or numbers in a cell. You might also be expanding the row height to fit the size of the text, but I think it’s less common than expanding […]
Following up from episode #77 about mental models, I wanted to take things one step further and tie mental models to one of my favorite shows. If you came here hoping for the latest Excel trick or keyboard shortcut, apologies in advance. If there’s one theme you should take away from these posts, it’s being […]
The promise of mental models is that it helps you bridge the gap between what’s in your mind and what happens in real life. They are interesting thought exercises in how you think. But that’s where it ends for me. How often do you approach a big decision in life and decide to pull from […]
Excel for the Real World III studentExcellent class for a beginner data analyst, great insight into this particular world, really appreciate it.
