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Dear Analyst #94: Helen Mary Barrameda on having a “portfolio career” prior to being a data analyst, winning the NASA Space Apps challenge, and wfh tips

A common theme I’ve noticed from talking with many data analysts and data engineers is that they didn’t come from a “data” background. Helen Mary Barrameda someone who exemplifies this theme. She is based in the Philippines and started her career as a freelance writer in 2004 writing lifestyle pieces. She used her earnings from […]

Dear Analyst #63: Cleaning Bitcoin Tweet data with OpenRefine, a free and open source alternative to Power Query

Numerous studies claim that data scientists spend too much time cleaning and preparing data (although this article claims it is a bullshit measure). I agree with some points in that article in that you should get your hands dirty with cleaning data to understand what eventually goes into the analysis. You may already be cleaning […]