Posts Tagged ‘Data Fundamentals Unpacked’
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 goes over challenge work, portfolios, and the ways we share our abilities with others. This episode is a great watch…
Read MoreDFU: 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 to justify bad decisions? In this episode we explore what it really looks like to let data drive business decisions,…
Read MoreDFU: 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 experts now? What scared them early in their careers? How do they handle their fear? This is definitely one of…
Read MoreDFU: 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 a data worker or you’re deep into being a data analyst and thinking about your next big moves, there’s valuable…
Read MoreDFU: Bias
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,…
Read MoreDFU: 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 do we hone it? We also talk about how it can trip us up if we trust it too much.…
Read MoreDFU: 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 have? Why do we have those rules? What happens with too many, what happens with too few? Are morality and…
Read MoreDFU: 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 with statistics. Whether math comes naturally or numbers stress you out, tune in to this one. On Data Fundamentals Unpacked,…
Read MoreDFU: 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 to put it to use when you find those patterns of semipredictable variation. The role of additional factors in shaping…
Read MoreDFU: 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. There’s also some great talk about how we navigate finding which tools are right for which tasks. On Data Fundamentals…
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