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BREAK INTO DATA

Your Data Delightful Adventure starts here!

ASHA HOLLA, DATA STORYTELLER

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  1. Hey, I’m Asha Holla and I’m currently working as a data analyst at Bloom Value Corporation.

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  • Bloom is a US based, tech startup providing AI solutions to US Healthcare market.

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  • I have about a year experience working as full time and nearly two including my internships.

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  • Discovering the endless potential in data was my big revelation. I love data because it allows me to be creative.

ABOUT ME

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  1. Intro – the whats, whys and hows
  2. Some fun facts
  3. DIY Data Analysis
  4. A day in the life
  5. A data analysts toolkit
  6. Resources : portfolio building
  7. Questions

AGENDA FOR TODAY

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DATA OR DATA?

LETS ANSWER SOME REAL QUESTIONS?

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WHAT IS DATA?

    • Collection of facts that describe something – pictures, texts, numbers

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    • Not limited to these modes, it could be

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        • Your favorite songs on a playlist
        • The number of likes on your latest social media post

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WHY DATA?

The average person generates about 1.7 megabytes of data every second!

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Less than 0.5% of this data is ever used

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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

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COXCOMB

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1. Define your quest – What problem am I solving?

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SO HOW CAN I GET STARTED?

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2. Devise a gameplan – How am I going to get there?

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3. Inventory – What tools do I need to accomplish this task?

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A DAY IN THE LIFE

  • Understand the data
  • Communicate w stakeholders – understand business requirement
  • Identify opportunities for process optimization

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  • Data collection & gathering
  • Cleaning / EDA
  • Develop dashboards – make the numbers talk
  • Reporting insights
  • Reconciliation

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A DATA ANALYST’S TOOLKIT

  • Visualization tools – PowerBI / Tableau, Excel
  • Databases – SQL
  • Languages – Python, R
  • Cloud – Azure, AWS, GCP
  • Some basic statistics

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And the most important

  • Communication
  • Critical Thinking

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BUILDING YOUR PORTFOLIO

  • PowerBI – Microsoft Learn

Youtube – Pragmamtic works, GuyInaCube

  • SQL – W3Schools, SQL Murder mystery, SQL Island
  • Excel – Maven Analytics
  • Python – W3Schools, Leetcode
  • Statistics – Statquest on yt, Seeing Theory: Brown

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Data Analyst Certificates

  • Google Data Analytics Professional
  • IBM Data Analyst Professional

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THANK YOU