Top 5 Data Skills You Need to Learn in 2019
Think about it. We have 26 letters in the alphabet and 10 basic numerical digits. Yet, somehow it all combines to generate more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of da...
Framing Your Data Correctly
When presenting information how you frame it matters. To illustrate this point we're going to compare how FiveThirtyEight, one of the best data news sources, ch...
How to Find and Remove Duplicates in Excel
In working with data from any source, you need to make sure you don't have duplicate values. In many systems, this can be particularly cumbersome. In my favorit...
How Data Conquered Tech
Background As the saying goes, “if sales are the air a company breathes, then data is the blood running through its veins.” At least that’s how I remembe...
What Data Pros Can Learn from Mr. Rogers
It was 1969. The US was in the middle of the Vietnam war. Money was tight and the United States Senate Subcommittee on Communications was holding hearings to de...
When to Tell Your Boss No
I played the role of “boss” for many years in my career, and I never liked hearing the word no from my team. There are, however, a few occasions where I found i...
Silicon Valley’s Biggest Skills Gap (Data Science) is Your Chance to Win
LinkedIn recently published their Workforce Report for 2018 which gives us insights into the US job market from their 150 million members. For us Data Geeks, th...
Why Your Data Presentations Suck & How to Fix Them
I’ve worked with data for over half my life, almost 20 years now.. Throughout my career, I’ve been on teams that drove initiatives and helped guide the business...
Data Science for People in a Hurry
The thing is, every company already has a data science department, even if they don’t know it. In order to understand that though lets’ start with a defi...
More to come…
I know it's been a while since I've written here, but I've been doing a lot of living lately and learning as well. Many things to share in the coming weeks. Sta...