631: Data Analytics Career Orientation

<p>Interview success, funny memes about data, and stakeholder management: Jon Krohn speaks with Luke Barousse, a full-time YouTuber who produces content to help aspiring data scientists. First, Jon and his guest go underwater to find out how data science can help you while working on a submarine before they emerge onto Luke’s YouTube channel. There, he discloses all the helpful hacks for data science beginners—with a generous helping of humor! As founder of MacroFit, a data-driven company that helps with meal planning, Luke is no stranger to portion sizes…</p><p>This episode is brought to you by Iterative (<a href='https://iterative.ai/'>iterative.ai</a>), your mission control center for machine learning. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit <a href='http://jonkrohn.com/podcast'>JonKrohn.com/podcast</a> for sponsorship information.<br/><br/></p><p>In this episode you will learn:<br/>• Where Luke gets his inspiration for making YouTube videos [04:46]<br/>• How Luke got into creating comedy skits [08:21]<br/>• Luke’s favorite Python libraries for web scraping [14:41]<br/>• Incorrect assumptions that aspiring data scientists make [15:54]<br/>• The best time to use Power BI [19:15]<br/>• The biggest mistakes Luke made in his data science career [22:17]<br/>• Luke’s experience as a submariner and how it helped him in his data analyst career [38:13]<br/>• The must-have skills for entry-level data analyst roles [43:46]<br/><br/></p><p>Additional materials: <a href='https://www.superdatascience.com/631'>www.superdatascience.com/631</a></p>