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…

This episode is brought to you by Iterative (https://iterative.ai), your mission control center for machine learning. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.

In this episode you will learn:
• Where Luke gets his inspiration for making YouTube videos [04:46]
• How Luke got into creating comedy skits [08:21]
• Luke’s favorite Python libraries for web scraping [14:41]
• Incorrect assumptions that aspiring data scientists make [15:54]
• The best time to use Power BI [19:15]
• The biggest mistakes Luke made in his data science career [22:17]
• Luke’s experience as a submariner and how it helped him in his data analyst career [38:13]
• The must-have skills for entry-level data analyst roles [43:46]

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631: Data Analytics Career Orientation

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631: Data Analytics Career Orientation

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