Data analyst, amateur photographer, occasional blogger.

I’m Kathy, a data analyst based in New York City. I transitioned my career from lab scientist to data analysis using free online learning tools and I’m here to share my learnings along the way.

Debugging Code for the first time as a beginner

Have you ever been writing your own code or running someone else’s code, and everything seems fine and dandy? Then, everything comes to a screeching halt, and your screen is just filled with lines of code and error messages. That’s definitely happe ...

Learning Python as a Non-Programmer

If you’re anything like me, then you’ve been trying to learn to code for years. Maybe you signed up for AP Computer Science in high school because all your friends told you it was an easy course (it wasn’t), then years after the trauma subsided, you ...

The key skill that helped me land my first data analyst position

Take a guess. Was it SQL, Python, data analyst bootcamp? If you answered “Tableau”, you’re correct! In my first data analyst job, the hiring manager asked me if I had Tableau experience. Not only was I able to tell him “yes”, I was able to show hi ...

Work

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    Appen
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    Data Analyst
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  2. Company
    Apple · Contract
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    Data Analyst
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  3. Company
    Talis Biomedical
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    Research Associate
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  4. Company
    Complete Genomics
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    Research Associate
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  5. Company
    FDA
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    Analytical Chemist
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