Last week in Data+ Week 33

This week I'm trying out publishing as an article rather than a standard post. Let me know if you prefer this or the regular weekly post format.

YouTube

Shashank Kalanithi goes through 101 terms in data. This is a great way to get familiarity with the field in general. (34 minutes)?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56INeYrTiyE

Alex Freberg reviews the CareerFoundry's Data Analytics courses and bootcamp. He gives an honest review. (23 minutes)?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QZBnhofU_U

Sundas Khalid talks about the programming languages to focus on to get into data science. (11 minutes)?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V39k0gM2F0

Benjamin Rogojan shows how a data engineering project would work by pulling data from an API. This will be a 2-3 part series. (10 minutes)?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi37QN-2Ugw

Avery Smith continues with the 30-projects in 30-days and this video is to cover "Tidy Tuesday." (11 minutes)?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UUCzQHpquw

LinkedIn

How do you hide gridlines in Excel? Matt Brattin Brattin gives us a quick tip on what to do and not to do in your tables.?https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/mattbrattin_excel-data-analytics-activity-6966390448370192384-MPq8

Dustin Schimek and Data Careers Summit have been collecting data on the skills required in data analytics job postings. I think these are very useful charts that they created from the data.?https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/dustinschimek_analytics-data-careers-activity-6965642235883249665-n_iF?These graphics are from the Data Analytics Careers Summit on August 12th which you can watch here:?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrSDlSGEtW0

Reddit

Have you considered taking the Microsoft PL-300? in r/PowerBI user u/itsmeChis writes about how he passed this exam with tips. (53 comments)?https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerBI/comments/wsecg6/i_took_and_passed_the_pl300_microsoft_power_bi/

Would you like to see an example of a data analytics resume? u/Toddric29 posted his resume in r/resumes and Reddit could help you too. (33 comments)?https://www.reddit.com/r/resumes/comments/wtb3lo/im_trying_to_transition_from_accounting_to_data/

This post from u/GoobGoobb in r/dataanalysis if anyone who passed the Google Analytics certificate was helped by Google to get a job. (25 comments)?https://www.reddit.com/r/dataanalysis/comments/wriijc/another_google_data_analytics_post/

Medium or DevTo

Want to know more about Data Engineering? Dennis Kinyungu explains it all. (5 min read)?https://dev.to/deno_exporter/data-engineering-101-introduction-to-data-engineering-4md3

One of the most important skills for a data analyst is storytelling. Emma Donery gives her tips on how to improve this skill. (5 min read)?https://dev.to/emma_donery/the-art-of-data-storytelling-3k8a

There are many ways that data analytics are completed. Uma Chandrasekhar goes through several of the areas of data that you should know about. (11 min read)?https://umachandra.medium.com/data-analytics-types-and-applications-9a0c655fbccc

I'm really inspired by the way sanmi oduntan pushed herself to be a data analyst in 6-months! She explains her journey to get certificates in both Google Analytics and DataCamp. (5 min read)?https://medium.com/@Shespeaks_data/re-data-analyst-in-6-months-to-be-or-not-to-be-ca100c8ff189