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Data Survival Skills on LinkedIn Learning
The data survival skills is a biweekly series that is full of data survival skills for different scenerios and different tools.
Adding data leveraging cross joins
Adding data leveraging cross joins Join Robin to master cross joins in SQL and Excel. Streamline your data merging for effective project management and analysis. Learn How To: Use Cross Joins The Data Skills Survival ...
Using Case statements for conditional logic in SQL queries
Using Case statements for conditional logic in SQL queries In this video, Robin continues to explore booking data, this time incorporating SQL queries and Case statements to classify data and highlight meaningful trends in her ...
Analyzing data using a matrix and conditional formats
Analyzing data using a matrix and conditional formats Have an Excel sheet with pivot tables full of data? Want to visualize those in Power BI in meaningful ways? Let Robin step you through the next ...
Using various pivot formats
Using various pivot formats to tell different stories for your presentations Every visual tells a story. Learn how to use Pivots to share different stories on the same data. Learn How To: Use Different Pivot ...
Perform basic analysis
Perform basic analysis on data sets No single data set is exactly the same. Learn how to do the basic analysis techniques to learn more about your data. Learn How To: Analyze Data Sets The ...
Using analysis commands
Using the analysis commands built into popular tools Most systems have some basic analysis built in to the software. Learn how to take your analysis up a step using these built-in tools. Learn How To: ...
Basic dates analysis
Using basic dates analysis It's in the gap you can tell the story. This is a must watch video. This will show you how to gain some great data structure for data that needs to ...
Building paginated reports in Power BI
Building paginated reports in Power BI Learn how to quickly build basic paginated reports using PowerBI Report Builder. Learn How To Make Paginated Reports In Power BI The Data Skills Survival Kit Series If you're ...
Edit visual interactions
Edit visual interactions Learn how to create interactive dashboards with a few static items that never update. Learn How To Edit Interactions In Dashboards The Data Skills Survival Kit Series If you're a data analyst, ...
Normalizing data to achieve a data design
Normalizing data to achieve a data design Normalizing data is typically the skill of a database designer, but when you are an analyst, you design data sets. No keys on how to break data to ...
Working with full outer joins
Working with full outer joins Often times we find as data workers we are trying to determine what is on two data sets. We want to see everything that matches or doesn't match from two ...
Using anti joins to search for data
Using anti joins to search for data We know that data sets cannot be achieved efficiently without adjusting joins so we learn about left and right joins. Then as we produce these results sometimes we ...
Joining data with common data between two unrelated data sets
Joining data with common data between two unrelated data sets Joining data is part of the life of a data analyst. The problem is that most data sets that need to be joined exist in ...
Creating unique identifiers between two data sets
Creating unique identifiers between two data sets When a join is required, and the field doesn't exist, you must learn to create a field to create a unique identifier. This will allow you to enjoy ...
Data Fundamentals Unpacked
Join Robin Hunt, Bill Shander and Gini Von Courter every month to unpack data fundamentals and skills of the trade.
Data Fundamentals Unpacked: Scary Data Words
October 20, 2023 - Robin, Gini, and Oz talked through some SCARY data words again this year- watch out for kurtosis! If you too have felt intimdated or overwhelmed by an unfamiliar data word, give ...
Building The Data Workforce – Helen Wall
Helen Wall is a data analytics and business analysis expert. Helen is skilled in data analysis—querying, analyzing, and modeling data to gain insights—and creating visualizations that illustrate metrics, to help businesses make informed decisions. In ...
Building The Data Workforce – Bill Shander
Bill Shander is an information designer, helping clients turn their data into compelling visual and often interactive experiences. He teaches data storytelling, information design and data visualization on LinkedIn Learning, at the University of Vermont, ...
Building The Data Workforce – Oz du Soleil
Oz du Soleil, Microsoft Excel MVP, Author, YouTube Creator By day, Oz uses Excel to battle Crap Data, blazing trails through data's dusty badlands. By night, he's a collector of kaleidoscopes. With a fiery passion ...
Building The Data Workforce – Gini von Courter
Gini von Courter has taught computer classes on Microsoft Office for 20+ years and has authored 30+ books. Gini has been providing computer classes and seminars on Microsoft Office and related products for more than ...
Building The Data Workforce – Robin Hunt
Robin Hunt is a developer and educator focused on process development, data management, and custom workflows. Robin loves to inspire people to "think something new" and has a passion for people and data. She actively ...
Building The Data Workforce
Gini von Courter has taught computer classes on Microsoft Office for 20+ years and has authored 30+ books. Gini has been providing computer classes and seminars on Microsoft Office and related products for more than ...
DFU: People Analytics
***For best viewing experience log in to LinkedIn*** August 9, 2023 - We sure did miss having Gini on this episode, having Dr. Huang on was such a treat! The way she sees things is ...
DFU: What languages should you learn for Data
***For best viewing experience log in to LinkedIn*** June 13, 2023 - Helen Wall returns for this fantastic talk about languages, coding, and data. The discussion covers problem solving, what is and is not programming, ...
DFU: Imposter Syndrome
***For best viewing experience log in to LinkedIn*** May 26, 2023 - On this episode of Data Fundamentals Unpacked we dig deep into imposter syndrome. We go over what it is, why it happens, and ...
DFU: Finding portfolio building work
***For best viewing experience log in to LinkedIn*** March 13, 2023 - A portfolio is a valuable way to demonstrate your skills to potential clients and employers- do you have one? Should you? The team ...
DFU: Data-Driven Decision Making
***For best viewing experience log in to LinkedIn*** November 22, 2022 - Today's episode is one with a controversial title- IS data-driven decision making actually bunk, or is data-driven decision making used as a scapegoat ...
DFU: When Data Gets Scary
***For best viewing experience log in to LinkedIn*** October 25, 2022 - Oz du Soleil is on the program for this episode! He's the perfect guest for an episode about SCARY data- what scares the ...
DFU: Plan Your Learning Path
***For best viewing experience log in to LinkedIn*** September 13, 2022 - On this episode of Data Fundamentals Unpacked we go over learning. Whether you're at the beginning of considering starting your path to being ...
DFU: Bias
***For best viewing experience log in to LinkedIn*** July 13, 2022 - We are excited to have expert Stacey A. Gordon join us for a discussion on bias, how we can learn more on the ...
DFU: Common Sense
***For best viewing experience log in to LinkedIn*** April 13, 2022 - Common sense is a fun topic. Do we need it in data, or is book sense enough? How do we get it, how ...
DFU: Data Ethics
***For best viewing experience log in to LinkedIn*** March 10, 2022 - Doug Rose joins us this week for a fascinating talk about ethics in data. What rules do we have, what rules should we ...
DFU: Math and Statistics
***For best viewing experience log in to LinkedIn*** February 24, 2022 - Today we figure out our relationships with math, our own barriers to getting comfortable with numbers, and times when we've had to wrestle ...
DFU: Seasonality
***For best viewing experience log in to LinkedIn*** December 2, 2021 - Seasonality is the topic at hand, and everyone brings great personal insights to what seasonality is, why it's important to consider, and how ...
DFU: Tools Agnosticism
***For best viewing experience log in to LinkedIn*** September 16, 2021 - In this episode we took a look at how people use (and don't use!) tools and how data professionals adapt to changing situations. ...
DFU: Big Data
***For best viewing experience log in to LinkedIn*** July 15, 2021 - Big Data is this episode's topic. It's a hot topic, but what's smoke and what's fire? Helen Wall joins the team as we ...
DFU: Uncertainty
***For best viewing experience log in to LinkedIn*** June 17, 2021 - On this episode of Data Fundamentals unpacked we have a wide-ranging talk on uncertainty in data and uncertainty in the wider world. We ...
DFU: Data Literacy
***For best viewing experience log in to LinkedIn*** May 18, 2021 - On this episode of Data Fundamentals unpacked we have a lively discussion of what data literacy means to different people in different contexts ...
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