201: What I ACTUALLY Do as a Data Analyst

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I'm a senior data analyst with 10+ years of experience and I'm breaking down exactly what I did, what tools I used, and what problems I solved across very different industries.

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00:00 – What nobody tells you about data analyst work

01:00 – Predicting refinery outcomes with math models

04:05 – When data analytics meets machine learning

07:00 – Finding needles in millions of log files

09:23 – How one analysis ended up driving marketing & sales

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