Building The Data Workforce – Helen Wall

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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 her role as a senior financial analyst, she currently improves reports, streamlines processes, and monitors projections, contributing to the forecasting…

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Building The Data Workforce – Bill Shander

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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, and in workshops around the world. Clients include the World Bank, Starbucks, multiple U.S. Government agencies, Big Four firms, and…

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Building The Data Workforce – Oz du Soleil

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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 for teaching and a vicious spirit in the wild west of data, Oz has taught classes for entities like Xfinity,…

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Building The Data Workforce – Gini von Courter

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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 20 years at public and private companies, state and federal agencies, educational institutions, and not-for-profit organizations, and has consulted and…

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Building The Data Workforce – Robin Hunt

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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 seeks ways to engage in efforts that support her community and loves being an active part of the entrepreneurial and…

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DFU: What languages should you learn for Data

What languages should you learn for data? Data languages.

***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, and how we determine which tools we should use for different tasks. If any of those topics sound good, you…

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DFU: When Data Gets Scary

When data gets scary, explore the fundamentals that unpack it.

***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 experts now? What scared them early in their careers? How do they handle their fear? This is definitely one of…

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DFU: Plan Your Learning Path

Learning path unpacked - episode 10.

***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 a data worker or you’re deep into being a data analyst and thinking about your next big moves, there’s valuable…

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DFU: Bias

Unpacking data fundamentals and biases in episode 9.

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 topic, and ways to avoid it in our data projects. This is, hands down, one of the most educational episodes for all of us. On Data Fundamentals Unpacked,…

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DFU: Common Sense

Common Sense data fundamentals unpacked.

***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 do we hone it? We also talk about how it can trip us up if we trust it too much.…

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