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.
I was recently tasked with my first SQL project at work, and “feeling overwhelmed” was an understatement.
The original author had written the code years ago, had already left the company, and passed along minimal knowledge to the team.
The query wa ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...