Listen "631: Data Analytics Career Orientation"
Episode Synopsis
Interview success, funny memes about data, and stakeholder management: Jon Krohn speaks with Luke Barousse, a full-time YouTuber who produces content to help aspiring data scientists. First, Jon and his guest go underwater to find out how data science can help you while working on a submarine before they emerge onto Luke’s YouTube channel. There, he discloses all the helpful hacks for data science beginners—with a generous helping of humor! As founder of MacroFit, a data-driven company that helps with meal planning, Luke is no stranger to portion sizes…
This episode is brought to you by Iterative (iterative.ai), your mission control center for machine learning. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.
In this episode you will learn:• Where Luke gets his inspiration for making YouTube videos [04:46]• How Luke got into creating comedy skits [08:21]• Luke’s favorite Python libraries for web scraping [14:41]• Incorrect assumptions that aspiring data scientists make [15:54]• The best time to use Power BI [19:15]• The biggest mistakes Luke made in his data science career [22:17]• Luke’s experience as a submariner and how it helped him in his data analyst career [38:13]• The must-have skills for entry-level data analyst roles [43:46]
Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/631
This episode is brought to you by Iterative (iterative.ai), your mission control center for machine learning. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.
In this episode you will learn:• Where Luke gets his inspiration for making YouTube videos [04:46]• How Luke got into creating comedy skits [08:21]• Luke’s favorite Python libraries for web scraping [14:41]• Incorrect assumptions that aspiring data scientists make [15:54]• The best time to use Power BI [19:15]• The biggest mistakes Luke made in his data science career [22:17]• Luke’s experience as a submariner and how it helped him in his data analyst career [38:13]• The must-have skills for entry-level data analyst roles [43:46]
Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/631
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