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Continue reading →: Fresh Start
This fresh start is not an April Fools’ joke. 2024 has become a fitting time for me to evaluate my life and fix what’s not working. Most are still works in progress, since only three months have past. Anyway, before I continue, here’s a cute picture of myself last February…
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Continue reading →: 2021: A New Hope?
It goes without saying what 2020 has been. Who would have thought that an unkempt seafood market in China could claim 1.9M lives and change drastically how we live? Natural calamities like forest fires, volcano eruptions (see photo above) and typhoons occurred this year, as well as human conflicts rooted from various…
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Continue reading →: How I passed my Tableau Desktop Specialist exam
The road is long, but I finally passed my Tableau Desktop Specialist certification with flying colors. I encourage anyone working with data to take it. Here are concrete tips that helped me prepare for the exam! Tip 1: Learn through work experience – ~2 years I’m the type of person who prefers to…
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Continue reading →: Work from Home: My Setup
I’m working from home until September 2020, so I decided to decorate my home office. I also needed a creative outlet and to boost my productivity (and morale). Read along and I’ll show you my setup in five parts! Part 1 – Main Tools of the Trade Laptop: Macbook Pro…
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Continue reading →: COVID-19 Pandemic
We’re in a pandemic now; I haven’t gone out of my house for the past three weeks. My routine just involves working extra long hours in my cozy bedroom, enjoying meals home-cooked by my loving grandmother, squeezing in bit of exercise, and having more live conversations with my family. The world may…
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Continue reading →: Business and Financial Modeling Specialization: A Review
I recently completed a Coursera specialization on Business and Financial Modeling. Surprisingly, I had fun spending eight weekends immersed in lecture videos, Math formulas and Excel workbooks. Math isn’t exactly my cup of tea, but I found myself doing a lot of data modeling and forecasting in my day job. So…
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Continue reading →: What Happened in Alteryx Inspire 2019
Last June 2019, I was in Nashville, Tennessee to attend Alteryx Inspire 2019, a four-day conference where analysts from various industries gathered to share best practices on Alteryx, a proprietary software for data analytics. Alteryx is my bread and butter at work: I use this software to prepare and transform millions of records…
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Continue reading →: Send emails in Outlook using Python
Here’s a quick and easy way to send customized emails to multiple recipients in Microsoft Outlook. You’ll only need a list of contacts, an Outlook account and Python. Perfect for lead generation and email marketing activities. To start, make sure to prepare your contacts list in a csv file: Then,…