6 Data Skills That Will Make You Better At Your Job
It’s often said that data is the “language” of business, because practically every company relies on data to inform decision-making. And you don’t have to be a Data Scientist or Business Intelligence Data Analyst to benefit from learning how to work with data. No matter what kind of job you have or field you work…
Cool Job: I’m the NFL’s Football Operations Data Scientist
Monday morning watercooler chats after a big football Sunday look a little different for Tom Bliss, the National Football League’s Football Operations Data Science Manager. “The fun thing about our group is that we have both a robust data background as well as a football background,” Tom, who has worked at the NFL since 2020,…
How To Analyze Beyoncé’s Grammys Nominations & Wins With Python
This Sunday is The Grammy Awards, and many of the biggest names in music — like Bad Bunny, Lizzo, and Taylor Swift — are nominated for awards this year. While we won’t know who’ll take home a gilded gramophone until Sunday, some of the nominees already have quite a few Grammys to their name. Beyoncé,…
Practice These Hadoop Interview Questions and Ace Your Interview
If you’re interviewing for a position that’ll require you to process and manipulate large volumes of data — from gigabytes to petabytes — it’s very likely that you’ll use Hadoop in some capacity. Professions like Data Engineer, Data Scientist, Big Data Analyst, Big Data Software Engineer, Business Intelligence Specialist, and more all use Hadoop to…
Maki Villano Is Earning His Master in Data Science While Balancing Work and Family
Karim Makisig “Maki” Villano studied electrical engineering as an undergraduate. He took on various IT roles over the last two decades and is currently a senior solutions architect at an IT services company. He soon became drawn to data science, recognizing that it was a growing field with high demand for skilled practitioners. Maki felt…
With Performance-Based Admissions, Mattison Hineline Can Earn a Master’s and Pursue a New Career...
After graduating with her bachelor’s in psychology, Mattison Hineline moved to Málaga, Spain, to teach English. During the pandemic, she started taking programming classes online and became increasingly intrigued by the stats and graphs being used to track COVID-19’s impact. As her interest in data and programming grew, Mattison began to think about the possibilities…
8 of the fastest growing jobs of the 2020s!
The labor market never stands still as it constantly evolves to meet changing conditions, such as altering customer preferences, automation and climate change. Over the next ten years, demand for workers in certain sectors is going to increase drastically, just as certain other sectors are going to contract. Based on statistics taken from the US…
A Day in the Life of a CEO: Lachezar Arabadzhiev
Lachezar Arabadzhiev is the founder and CEO of SkildLabs, an e-learning solutions company that takes businesses from the ideation stages of all type of learning or training experience to a complete product. Working with a variety of different e-learning platforms, SkildLabs takes clients from brainstorming, storyboarding, script writing, to filming, video-editing, effects and platform configuration.…
5 Great Jobs in Data Science – A Booming Sector!
Big data is only getting bigger and bigger. This means that the surrounding industry is also experiencing enormous growth. The data sector is best understood as a subsection of every other sector, as the leveraging of data is now essential to all industries. This means that it’s an incredibly dynamic labour market, with lots of…
Essential Excel formulas to improve office productivity
Microsoft Excel was first released back in 1987, but it wasn’t until around 1993 that the spreadsheet software started to be widely used. Since then, it’s become the industry standard for spreadsheets, adding all types of functionality and features. As such, there are some essential excel formulas that can benefit all kinds of users.The list…
