https://www.datacamp.com/community/blog/building-high-performing-data-teams

In this episode of DataFramed, we speak with Syafri Bahar, VP of Data Science at Gojek about building high-performing data teams, and how data science is central to Gojek’s success. 

Building High Performing Data Teams

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<p>For many of us, the third quarter of 2021 was the long-awaited “return to normality” that dominated headlines last year. 2020 had been a bumper year for DataCamp Donates thanks to our mission to keep education going through challenging times, and this quarter we were pleased to see many of our partner organizations continuing their philanthropic activities. They have made use of DataCamp’s content to upskill their staff and volunteers; they have secured funding from prominent sources; they have announced new partnerships; and many have done amazing work to spread data literacy to groups we would otherwise not have been able to reach.</p>
<h3 id="a-quarter-in-review">A quarter in review</h3>
<p>DataCamp Donates has proudly partnered with over 100 organizations, from student clubs to international NGOs, through which we offer our content for free to people who may not otherwise have had the opportunity to learn data science.</p>
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<p>In Q3 alone we achieved some impressive statistics together:</p>
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<li>Over 20 new organizations added to our list of partners</li>
<li>3,763 licenses donated to learners in 29 different countries</li>
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<p>To date, DataCamp Donates learners have put in an incredible amount of work:</p>
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<li>226,000 hours of learning completed by DataCamp Donates learners</li>
<li>Over 52,000 courses completed, with Python, SQL, and R the top three most popular technologies</li>
<li>Over 8,200 skills assessments taken by DataCamp Donates learners</li>
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<p>In this section we bring you a series of achievements and success stories from our partner organizations!</p>
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<h5 id="blossom-academy-an-interview-on-cnn-https-www-youtube-com-watch-v-liqsegatzi0-">Blossom Academy | <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liqsegAtzi0">An interview on CNN</a></h5>
<p>Blossom Academy’s mission to upskill professionals in Ghana was recently featured in CNN’s What’s the Big Idea feature.</p>
<h5 id="carbon-disclosure-project-cdp-director-appointed-to-european-commission-https-www-cdp-net-en-articles-governments-mirjam-wolfrum-efrag-european-sustainability-reporting-standards-">Carbon Disclosure Project | <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cdp.net/en/articles/governments/mirjam-wolfrum-efrag-european-sustainability-reporting-standards">CDP director appointed to European Commission</a></h5>
<p>In a huge step towards their mission to assist companies in disclosing their environmental impact information, Mirjam Wolfrun, Director of Policy Engagement at CDP Europe, was recently appointed to EFRAG, a task force that has worked towards the EU’s sustainability reporting standards.</p>
<h5 id="datau-it-pays-to-learn-accelerating-cambodia-s-post-covid-rise-through-data-skills-training-for-jobs-creation-https-mydatau-org-2021-09-03-it-pays-to-learn-">DataU | <a target="_blank" href="https://mydatau.org/2021/09/03/it-pays-to-learn/">It Pays to Learn: Accelerating Cambodia’s Post-COVID Rise through Data Skills Training for Jobs Creation</a></h5>
<p>DataU recently partnered with USAID, giving them another significant step-up in providing data science education to vulnerable youth in Cambodia.</p>
<h5 id="fareshare-charity-of-the-year-https-www-linkedin-com-posts-fareshareuk_charity-of-the-year-fareshare-has-been-named-activity-6842040477047377920-j-8b-">FareShare | <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/fareshareuk_charity-of-the-year-fareshare-has-been-named-activity-6842040477047377920-J-8b">Charity of the Year</a></h5>
<p>FareShare has been named this year’s Charity of the Year by the Charity Times Awards! Through its partnership with ASDA, a major UK supermarket chain, FareShare has redistributed hundreds of thousands of meals to people in need that would otherwise have gone to landfills.</p>
<h5 id="gaza-sky-geeks-partnership-with-google-https-www-linkedin-com-posts-gaza-sky-geeks_-d8-b3-d8-b9-d9-8a-d8-af-d9-88-d9-86-d8-ac-d8-af-d8-a7-d8-a8-d8-a7-d9-84-d8-a5-d8-b9-d9-84-d8-a7-d9-86-d8-a7-d9-84-d9-8a-d9-88-d9-85-d8-b9-d9-86-d8-aa-d9-82-d8-af-d9-8a-d9-85-d9-85-d8-a7-d9-8a-d8-b2-d9-8a-d8-af-activity-6835553310238408704-oqzf-">Gaza Sky Geeks | <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gaza-sky-geeks_%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85-%D8%B9%D9%86-%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%85-%D9%85%D8%A7-%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%AF-activity-6835553310238408704-oQzf">Partnership with Google</a></h5>
<p>Gaza Sky Geeks recently were awarded a grant to have their learners get certified by Google. Recognized by employers, this initiative will have a huge impact on nurturing young tech talent in Palestine!</p>
<h5 id="ground-truth-solutions-returning-to-the-central-african-republic-https-groundtruthsolutions-org-where-we-work-country-sel-central-african-20republic-fbclid-iwar2aua_0ogy9puckuvuauacrdegz8atvurfgce6n4few-ejvgokqe_paol0-">Ground Truth Solutions | <a target="_blank" href="https://groundtruthsolutions.org/where-we-work/country/?sel=Central-African%20Republic&amp;fbclid=IwAR2AuA_0OGY9pUcKUvuauACrdEgz8AtvuRFGCe6n4FEw-ejvgOKQe_PAoL0">Returning to the Central African Republic</a></h5>
<p>Improvements in the security situation in the CAR this quarter meant Ground Truth Solutions were able to resume their work there on gauging public perceptions towards the humanitarian response to COVID-19.</p>
<h5 id="open-knowledge-nepal-assisting-nepal-s-track-and-trace-system-http-oknp-org-2021-09-05-wrapping-up-youth-in-covid-response-project-tulsipur-">Open Knowledge Nepal | <a target="_blank" href="http://oknp.org/2021/09/05/wrapping-up-youth-in-covid-response-project-tulsipur/">Assisting Nepal’s Track and Trace System</a></h5>
<p>The COVID-19 pandemic hit Nepal hard, and in the town of Tulsipur local authorities struggled to keep track of the number and severity of cases. Open Knowledge Nepal was selected for a project that collected data on cases and used it to advise on healthcare resource needs. Their blog provides a detailed account of what happened, as well as what they learned from it.</p>
<h5 id="the-rivers-trust-founder-of-rivers-trust-honored-by-the-queen-https-www-theriverstrust-org-about-us-news-founder-of-rivers-trust-movement-honoured-by-the-queen-">The Rivers Trust | <a target="_blank" href="https://www.theriverstrust.org/about-us/news/founder-of-rivers-trust-movement-honoured-by-the-queen">Founder of Rivers Trust honored by the Queen</a></h5>
<p>Arlin Rickard, founder of the Rivers Trust, was recently awarded an OBE, a prestigious award from the UK Crown, in light of their decades of work in improving the health of Britain’s rivers for local communities and wildlife.</p>
<h5 id="she-code-africa-we-turn-5-today-https-www-linkedin-com-posts-she-code-africa_scaat5-women-womenintech-activity-6843099634831790081-lrgj-">She Code Africa | <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/she-code-africa_scaat5-women-womenintech-activity-6843099634831790081-lRGj">We turn 5 today!</a></h5>
<p>Happy (belated) fifth anniversary to She Code Africa, who have spent these five years empowering women in technology across Africa!</p>
<h5 id="simple-steps-community-connection-advisor-becomes-ceo-of-panasonic-https-www-linkedin-com-posts-simplestepscc_femaleleadership-authenticleadership-immigrantwomen-activity-6839295875362254848-f5yv-">Simple Steps Community Connection | <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/simplestepscc_femaleleadership-authenticleadership-immigrantwomen-activity-6839295875362254848-F5YV">Advisor becomes CEO of Panasonic</a></h5>
<p>Megan Myungwon Lee, an advisor to Simple Steps Community Connection, was recently named the CEO of Panasonic North America. With a shared passion for empowering female immigrant talent in the US, Lee has provided valuable guidance to SSCC and hosted a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.simplestepscc.org/events-list/compensation-negotiation-megan-lee">webinar</a> with them.</p>
<h5 id="sustainable-organic-integrated-livelihoods-reconstructing-after-the-haiti-earthquake-https-www-oursoil-org-september-2021-newsletter-from-response-to-reconstruction-">Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods | <a target="_blank" href="https://www.oursoil.org/september-2021-newsletter-from-response-to-reconstruction/">Reconstructing after the Haiti earthquake</a></h5>
<p>In the summer of 2021 southern Haiti was hit hard by an earthquake that left over 650,000 people in need of aid. SOIL set to work on delivering supplies such as tents to people in need of temporary shelter and chlorine tablets to purify the contaminated water, and have recently shifted their focus towards rebuilding people’s houses.</p>
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<p>Additionally, we had some of our own success stories to share this quarter!</p>
<ul>
<li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/donates/stories/uk-us-high-schools">DataCamp for Classrooms</a> was made available for free to high school students through their teachers in the US and UK—we are hoping to expand this across the world in the future!</li>
<li>DataCamp for Mobile is the main point of access to our content for over a quarter of our users in the developing world—we recently published an <a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/community/blog/a-cellular-story">article</a> detailing how improving our app, intended for “lunchbreak learners”, people with five minutes to spare, broadened into expanding data literacy overall.</li>
<li>DataCamp recently partnered with Omdena to upskill their worldwide team. Omdena is an organization of AI engineers who aim to use their skills for social good such as improving food security or planning resource allocation after natural disasters. Their learning on DataCamp helped them sharpen their skills in machine learning, programming, and data manipulation. You can read more about the details of our partnership in our new <a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/resources/case-studies/omdena-training-case-study">case study</a>!</li>
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<h2 id="new-and-returning-partners-in-q3-2021">New and returning partners in Q3 2021</h2>
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<td><a target="_blank" href="https://www.10academy.org/">10 Academy</a></td>
<td><a target="_blank" href="https://aylus.org/">Alliance of Youth Leaders in the United States (AYLUS)</a></td>
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<td><a target="_blank" href="https://www.blossomacademy.co/">Blossom Academy</a></td>
<td><a target="_blank" href="https://breakline.org/">BreakLine Education</a></td>
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<td><a target="_blank" href="https://cccareers.org/">Creating Coding Careers</a></td>
<td><a target="_blank" href="http://www.thecuriouslounge.co.uk/">The Curious Lounge</a></td>
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<td><a target="_blank" href="https://fiquemsabendo.com.br/">Fiquem Sabendo</a></td>
<td><a target="_blank" href="https://ayudinga.org/">Fundación Ayudinga</a></td>
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<td><a target="_blank" href="https://gdg.community.dev/gdg-islamabad/">GDG Islamabad</a></td>
<td><a target="_blank" href="http://greenwoodproject.org/">Greenwood Project</a></td>
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<td><a target="_blank" href="http://www.internationalconsultingnetwork.org/">International Consulting Network (ICON)</a></td>
<td><a target="_blank" href="https://www.launchcode.org/">LaunchCode</a></td>
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<td><a target="_blank" href="https://www.momrelaunch.com/">Mom Relaunch</a></td>
<td><a target="_blank" href="https://www.percentpledge.org/">Percent Pledge</a></td>
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<td><a target="_blank" href="https://perscholas.org/">Per Scholas</a></td>
<td><a target="_blank" href="https://pseudo-lab.com/">PseudoLab</a></td>
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<td><a target="_blank" href="https://www.theriverstrust.org/">The Rivers Trust</a></td>
<td><a target="_blank" href="https://venturecs.org/">Venture Community Services</a></td>
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<td><a target="_blank" href="https://www.sethacks.ca/">SET.hacks()</a></td>
<td><a target="_blank" href="https://www.simplestepscc.org/">Simple Steps Community Connection</a></td>
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<td><a target="_blank" href="https://www.srimaantrust.com/">SriMaan Trust</a></td>
<td><a target="_blank" href="https://www.oursoil.org/">Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL)</a></td>
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<td><a target="_blank" href="https://www.womenindata.org/">Women in Data</a></td>
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<p>And finally, we received some lovely “thank-you’s” from our partners!</p>
<p><em>“Big data is at the heart of all the drivers of change that are sweeping the world today, from socio-economic to smartphone to cloud to gaming. Thanks to DataCamp for providing such a tremendous framework for applications learning data skills.”</em>
—<a target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=199928715416036">Code for Nepal</a></p>
<p><em>“Thank you DATACAMP #datacampdonates for believing in our mission to inspire more women in data science.”</em>
—<a target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/166958610577901/posts/903245636949191">Women in Data Science Medellin</a></p>
<p><em>“At Women in Data, we value education as one of our core pillars, so we are excited to offer DataCamp access to all of our members for FREE for 12 months thanks to DataCamp Donates! DataCamp makes it easy for everyone to learn new skills specific to their role or target career.”</em>
 —Sadie St. Lawrence, Founder and CEO of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.womenindata.org/">Women in Data</a></p>
<p>We’re on a mission to democratize data literacy: You can apply to join DataCamp Donates <a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/donates/apply">on our partners page</a>. We also offer <a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/groups/classrooms">DataCamp for Classrooms</a> to university lecturers, and UK and US high school teachers, for free—if you work in these professions you can apply <a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/groups/classrooms">today</a>. Alternatively, spread the word by telling your teacher/lecturer about this initiative!</p>


https://www.datacamp.com/community/blog/donates-digest-q3

In this quarterly digest, we bring you the best news and success stories from DataCamp Donates and our partners—read on to find out more about the good causes your subscription is helping to support!

DataCamp Donates Digest Q3

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<h2 id="staying-competitive-in-the-digital-era">Staying competitive in the digital era</h2>
<p>Most organizations have embarked on digital and data transformation to survive and thrive in an increasingly hyper-connected and digitized world. Because of this, businesses are now generating enormous volumes of data that they can use to make better decisions.</p>
<p>To maximize the return on data, analysts need to be empowered with the best business intelligence tools to extract valuable insights for data-driven decision-making.</p>
<h2 id="what-are-business-intelligence-bi-tools-">What are business intelligence (BI) tools?</h2>
<p>Business intelligence (BI) is a set of capabilities and technologies that transforms data into actionable insights to help businesses make smarter, data-driven decisions. Business intelligence is delivered through BI tools which enable a simple drag-and-drop interface for analysts to perform activities such as:</p>
<ul>
<li><p><strong>Data preparation:</strong> Compiling data from multiple sources and formatting them for analysis.</p>
</li>
<li><p><strong>Data querying:</strong> Obtaining answers from datasets to answer specific data questions.</p>
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<li><p><strong>Data visualization:</strong> Creating visual representations of analysis in charts, graphs, histograms, and more for easy understanding.</p>
</li>
<li><p><strong>Performance metrics reporting:</strong> Comparing current performance to historical data and sharing results with stakeholders for decision-making.</p>
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<li><p><strong>Data mining:</strong> Using statistics and machine learning to uncover trends in big datasets.</p>
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<h2 id="use-of-bi-tools-in-the-industry">Use of BI tools in the industry</h2>
<p>The concept of BI has been around since the 1960s. Therefore, it is no surprise that dozens of well-established BI tools are already available in the market to help organizations leverage data for business analytics. The two most popular BI tools are Microsoft’s Power BI and Tableau.</p>
<p>The main value of modern  BI tools is that they enable self-service analytics, faster speed to insight, and an easy-to-use user interface. Instead of the conventional approach of sending requests to a central data team, modern BI tools empower staff to access data quickly and answer business questions by themselves.</p>
<p>Here are some examples of BI tools used in the industry:</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.qlik.com/us/resource-library/volvo-groups-journey-to-data-adoption-and-collaboration-with-qlik">Volvo Group used Qlik</a> to improve the reporting efficiency of key financial results, leading to embedded, autonomous decision-making within the organization.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.tableau.com/solutions/customer/uchicago-medicines-data-driven-response-covid-19">UChicago Medicine utilized Tableau</a> to create real-time dashboards as part of the medical center’s data-driven operational response to the COVID-19 pandemic</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/854431-zurich-insurance-azure-power-bi">Zurich Insurance Group turned to Power BI</a> to build a unified platform for business users to mine and leverage company data more efficiently.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.tableau.com/solutions/customer/jpmorgan-chase-chooses-tableau-enable-self-service-analytics-keeping-rapid">JPMorgan Chase adopted Tableau</a> to shift from IT-owned to business-owned self-service analytics to keep up with rapid industry changes and optimize processes for business success.</p>
<h2 id="what-is-power-bi-">What is Power BI?</h2>
<p>Power BI is a BI and data visualization tool that leverages visual analytics to empower people and organizations in making the most of their data. The engaging visualizations created in Power BI take the excel workflow to the next level and help stakeholders make sense of the massive amounts of data available.</p>
<p>According to Gartner, Power BI is the leading data visualization tool with more than 6 million users and 97% of Fortune 500 companies using it to democratize data insights. Power BI is made up of two components:</p>
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<li><p>Power BI Desktop is a free desktop version that allows for data analysis and report creation and includes the Power Query Editor.</p>
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<li><p>Power BI Service is a cloud-based version of Power BI, which has lightweight report editing functionality and is designed to share and distribute reports across the organization.</p>
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<p>Most commonly, teams would use Power BI Desktop to create reports, and Power BI service to share them. There is a paid Power BI Pro version that provides collaboration abilities, a mobile app, and the ability to publish and share across the Power BI cloud platform.</p>
<p>Moreover, Power BI Pro is part of a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.microsoft.com/en/microsoft-365/enterprise/e5?rtc=1&amp;activetab=pivot%3Aoverviewtab&amp;market=af">Microsoft 365 E5 subscription</a>, so chances are you may already have access to it if you’re in an organization that uses Microsoft Office.</p>
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<p><center><em>A Power BI Dashboard in Action</em></center></p>
<h2 id="how-is-power-bi-useful-">How is Power BI useful?</h2>
<h3 id="1-extract-data-insights-with-no-coding-skills-required">1. Extract data insights with no coding skills required</h3>
<p>One of the main strengths of Power BI is its intuitive user interface that allows both technical and non-technical analysts to build data visualizations and analyses efficiently.</p>
<p>The user-friendly drag-and-drop interface makes it easy to answer complex data-related questions without the need for programming skills. This simplicity lowers the barrier for users to perform advanced analytics such as trend analyses, regressions, and statistical summaries.</p>
<p>Power BI can also be integrated with a variety of existing Microsoft apps, such as Microsoft teams, Excel, and PowerPoint, which makes integrating data insights into existing workflows much easier.</p>
<h3 id="2-democratize-data-insights-with-dashboards">2. Democratize data insights with dashboards</h3>
<p>A classic BI application most people will be familiar with is the <strong>dashboard</strong>, where data is obtained from multiple sources and presented visually in charts and graphs to give a sense of the company’s processes and strategies.</p>
<p>Power BI comes with many reporting features for users to readily create well-designed interactive dashboards.
It can also connect to a wide range of data sources and can help you create powerful data models (e.g. SQL Server, Excel spreadsheets, Amazon Redshift, etc.). As a result, these dashboards can be enriched with comprehensive data from various applications across the organization.</p>
<p>These dashboards go a long way in aligning an organization’s strategic efforts, uncovering critical insights, and speeding up enterprise-wide decision-making. When many users are trained to create such dashboards, data insights can be democratized at scale to help transform the business into a data-driven company.</p>
<h3 id="3-tell-data-stories-with-advanced-data-visualization">3. Tell data stories with advanced data visualization</h3>
<p>Compelling data storytelling is more important than ever, given the burgeoning amounts of data generated in the digital age.</p>
<p>Dashboards are great for monitoring data and telling users <strong><em>what</em></strong> is happening. However, <strong>data stories</strong> help shape the data into a step-by-step process to explain <strong><em>why</em></strong> specific trends are happening.</p>
<p>Power BI allows users to string together a series of visualizations (including dashboards) to form a visual story to communicate data insights, provide context, and demonstrate how decisions relate to outcomes.</p>
<p>The ability to weave advanced visualizations into a coherent data narrative is what sets Power BI apart from other tools like Excel. These data stories are highly effective in framing a compelling case to communicate actionable insights to decision-makers, which aligns with the primary goal of business intelligence.</p>
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<p><center><a target="_blank" href="https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Data-Stories-Gallery/COVID-19-NSW-Transport-Impact/td-p/1193474">A Power BI Data Story on the impact covid-19 had on public transportation in NSW</a></center></p>
<h2 id="democratizing-data-science-with-power-bi-and-datacamp">Democratizing data science with Power BI and DataCamp</h2>
<p>NewVantage Partners’ <a target="_blank" href="https://www.newvantage.com/thoughtleadership">2021 Big Data and AI Executive Summary</a> revealed that only 24% of the firms are deemed data-driven. To unlock the value of data, employees need to equip themselves with tools to learn from their data effectively.</p>
<p>Power BI is a widely used business intelligence and analytics software trusted by companies like Amazon, Adobe, Rolls Royce, and more. With its user-friendly drag-and-drop functionality, Power BI empowers everyone in the organization to explore, analyze, share, and visualize business data and democratize insights for all.</p>
<p>Learn more about how <a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/discover/power-bi-essential-training?utm_source=fb_paid&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=Prospecting&amp;utm_term=prospecting&amp;utm_content=powerBI">DataCamp</a> can empower your team with the Power BI skills to democratize data science at scale.</p>
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Discover how Power BI can be leveraged to generate high-impact data visualizations and stories to drive scalable data-driven decision making in your organization.

How Power BI Helps Your Organization Achieve Greater Data Insights

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<p>Every organization is trying to become data-driven. To do this, you need to arm yourself with the latest insights and trends on how to build data transformation programs, scale data literacy within your teams, and build a sustainable data culture. Over the past year, we’ve published a variety of webinars and white papers with insights from industry thought leaders blazing the trail in creating data-driven organizations.</p>
<h2 id="webinars">Webinars</h2>
<h3 id="scaling-data-science-at-your-organization-part-1-https-www-datacamp-com-resources-webinars-scaling-data-science-with-iptop-part-2-https-www-datacamp-com-resources-webinars-tools-and-infrastructure-for-data-science-at-scale-part-3-https-www-datacamp-com-resources-webinars-organizing-teams-for-data-science-at-scale-">Scaling Data Science at Your Organization (<a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/resources/webinars/scaling-data-science-with-iptop">Part 1</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/resources/webinars/tools-and-infrastructure-for-data-science-at-scale">Part 2</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/resources/webinars/organizing-teams-for-data-science-at-scale">Part 3</a>)</h3>
<p>In this 3-part webinar series, Ramnath Vaidyanathan, VP of Product Research at DataCamp, outlines our proprietary IPTOP framework (<em>infrastructure, people, tools, organization, and processes</em>) for becoming a data-driven organization. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/resources/webinars/scaling-data-science-with-iptop">Part 1</a> provides an overview of all elements of the framework, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/resources/webinars/tools-and-infrastructure-for-data-science-at-scale">part 2</a> deep-dives into infrastructure and tools, and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/resources/webinars/organizing-teams-for-data-science-at-scale">part 3</a> deep-dives into people, organizational models, and processes. All of these webinars require no email sign-ups and have awesome tidbits and transcripts on the page.</p>
<h3 id="-bridging-the-communications-gap-with-data-literacy-https-www-datacamp-com-resources-webinars-communications-gap-with-data-literacy-"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/resources/webinars/communications-gap-with-data-literacy">Bridging the Communications Gap with Data Literacy</a></h3>
<p>In this webinar, Marc Wintjen, Data Literacy champion and Senior Risk Architect at Bloomberg, discusses how data literacy enables teams of various technical skills to better collaborate and dig through the why behind the data. He also offers awesome insights on when and which data visualizations provide the most insights, and how to become a masterful data storyteller in the process. This webinar requires no email-sign up and has an awesome array of visualizations embedded in the transcript.</p>
<h3 id="-building-data-culture-https-www-datacamp-com-resources-webinars-webinar-building-data-culture-"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/resources/webinars/webinar-building-data-culture">Building Data Culture</a></h3>
<p>In this webinar, Regional Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Allianz Benelux discusses the ins and outs of transforming a massive enterprise into a data-driven one. The main thesis presented is that becoming data-driven is not merely a technological investment, it also requires a culture transformation program. The webinar provides an incredible amount of insights and lessons other data leaders can apply to their own organizations, specifically on how to operationalize data skill academies. This webinar requires no email-sign up and has an awesome array of visualizations, movie references, and examples embedded in the transcript.</p>
<h3 id="-storytelling-for-more-impactful-data-science-https-www-datacamp-com-resources-webinars-storytelling-for-more-impactful-data-science-"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/resources/webinars/storytelling-for-more-impactful-data-science">Storytelling for More Impactful Data Science</a></h3>
<p>No data insight is consumed without proper packaging and presentation. This is why data storytelling is shaping up to be the key competency that differentiates data teams that create impact, and teams whose work does not get adopted. In this webinar, ML Lead at Deloitte Gert de Geyter, and Data Scientist at Deloitte Bhavya Dwivedi, discuss the ins and outs of delivering a good data story with compelling visualizations and narrative techniques. This webinar requires no email-sign up and has an awesome array of visualizations, and case studies embedded in the transcript.</p>
<h3 id="-how-data-governance-enables-scalable-data-science-https-www-datacamp-com-resources-webinars-data-governance-enables-scalable-data-science-"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/resources/webinars/data-governance-enables-scalable-data-science">How Data Governance Enables Scalable Data Science</a></h3>
<p>Data is unused if it’s not trustworthy, and data governance is the way to create organization-wide trust in data. In this webinar, Senior Data Scientist at Microsoft Aaren Stubberfield outlines how to build a data governance program within an organization, and the role data literacy plays when creating a common data language for successful data governance programs. This webinar requires no email-sign up and has a diverse array of visualizations, and case studies embedded in the transcript.</p>
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<p>Not everyone needs to code in a data-driven organization, but that does not mean your people can’t tap into the massive array of data insights. In this webinar, Carl Rosseel, Senior Curriculum Manager at DataCamp outlines the role business intelligence plays in enabling data-driven decision making at scale. More specifically, he outlines how business analysts and data analysts are the backbones of data-driven organizations, and how BI like Tableau and Power BI tools supercharges their workflows. This webinar requires no email-sign up and has a diverse array of visualizations, dashboard examples in the transcript.</p>
<h3 id="-the-path-to-data-fluency-https-www-datacamp-com-resources-webinars-the-path-to-data-fluency-"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/resources/webinars/the-path-to-data-fluency">The Path to Data Fluency</a></h3>
<p>The scaling data science webinar series above does an excellent job of outlining the levers to grow when transforming into a data-driven organization. However, which lever should you prioritize and when? This is where data maturity comes in. Not all organizations are created equal and no organization is in the same spot on the data maturity spectrum. This is why in this webinar, we outline the different steps you should take in terms of infrastructure, people, tools, organization, and processes based on different maturity levels. This webinar requires no email-sign up and has a diverse array of visualizations, dashboard examples in the transcript.</p>
<h3 id="-panel-l-d-for-the-data-driven-age-https-www-datacamp-com-resources-webinars-learning-and-development-for-the-data-driven-age-"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/resources/webinars/learning-and-development-for-the-data-driven-age">Panel: L&amp;D for the Data-Driven Age</a></h3>
<p>For organizations to become data-driven, they need to raise their data literacy. In this panel discussion with learning and development leaders from Bloomberg and NatWest, we discuss how they’re raising their organization’s data literacy with targeted upskilling programs, and outline their best practices for building learning cultures.</p>
<h3 id="-a-practical-guide-to-mlops-https-www-datacamp-com-resources-webinars-practical-guide-to-mlops-"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/resources/webinars/practical-guide-to-mlops">A Practical Guide to MLOps</a></h3>
<p>Covid-19 proved the importance of monitoring models in production for data drift and ensuring scalable methods and pathways to reduce the time from experimentation to deployment. This is where MLOps come in. In this webinar, Noah Gift outlines the importance of MLOps and its growing importance for data teams across the board and showcases a simple workflow in AWS to deploy ML Models.</p>
<h3 id="-how-data-science-is-transforming-healthcare-https-www-datacamp-com-resources-webinars-data-science-is-transforming-healthcare-"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/resources/webinars/data-science-is-transforming-healthcare">How Data Science Is Transforming Healthcare</a></h3>
<p>Healthcare is one of the most data-heavy industries out there, and this means that data science has massive potential to transform this space. Outside of providing healthcare organizations the ability to accelerate the value they deliver, and to deliver new ways to generate value for consumers, data science in healthcare has the potential to save hundreds of thousands of lives. This isn’t possible, however, without a data literate healthcare workforce. In this webinar, we outline how data science is transforming healthcare across pharma, patient care, insurance, and more. Then outline how organizations in this space can become more data literate.</p>
<h3 id="-developing-an-ai-literate-nation-https-www-datacamp-com-resources-webinars-developing-an-ai-literate-nation-"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/resources/webinars/developing-an-ai-literate-nation">Developing an AI Literate Nation</a></h3>
<p>Countries across the world are launching AI strategies with the aim of becoming leaders in the fourth industrial revolution. A key component of this is equipping the workforce of today with the skills needed to succeed tomorrow. In this fireside chat, we discuss with Laurence Liew, Director of AI Innovation at AI Singapore, and Koo Sengmeng, Senior Deputy Director at AI Innovation at AI Singapore, how they’ve launched a massive nationwide AI upskilling program that covers all strata of society.</p>
<h3 id="-democratizing-data-in-government-agencies-https-www-datacamp-com-resources-webinars-democratizing-data-in-government-agencies-"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/resources/webinars/democratizing-data-in-government-agencies">Democratizing Data in Government Agencies</a></h3>
<p>Just like the private sector, government agencies can garner massive gains by democratizing data science. In this webinar, Senio Data Scientist at NSW Government Alex Scriven discusses how democratizing data access and skills, can enable government agencies to do more, faster, and with fewer resources.</p>
<h2 id="white-papers">White Papers</h2>
<h3 id="-your-organization-s-guide-to-data-maturity-https-www-datacamp-com-resources-whitepapers-your-organizations-guide-to-data-maturity-"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/resources/whitepapers/your-organizations-guide-to-data-maturity">Your Organization’s Guide to Data Maturity</a></h3>
<p>Not all organizations are created equal and no organization is in the same spot on the data maturity spectrum. This is why in this white paper, we outline the different maturity stages organizations go through, and discuss the different steps you should take in terms of infrastructure, people, tools, organization, and processes based on different maturity levels.</p>
<h3 id="-insights-from-data-leaders-https-www-datacamp-com-resources-whitepapers-ungated-or-insights-from-data-leaders-"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/resources/whitepapers/ungated-or-insights-from-data-leaders">Insights from Data Leaders</a></h3>
<p>Over the course of 70+ episodes, DataFramed has hosted industry thought leaders across the board covering data science in industry, creating data cultures, organizing data teams, creating impact, and much more. In this white paper, you’ll find distilled insights from our favorite episodes over the past year. You’ll hear from data startup CEOs, enterprise and government CDOs, data leaders on a wide range of topics.</p>
<h3 id="-l-d-guide-to-data-fluency-https-www-datacamp-com-resources-whitepapers-l-and-d-guide-to-data-fluency-"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/resources/whitepapers/l-and-d-guide-to-data-fluency">L&amp;D Guide to Data Fluency</a></h3>
<p>L&amp;D leaders are embarking on the greatest upskilling initiative in the past few decades. Data fluency is the most important skill organizations are looking to build in the coming years. In this white paper, we provide a no-jargon guide that outlines eight learner personas in data science and what they need to know, a description of all the tools data professionals need to know,</p>
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Insights, trends, and best practices in driving data transformation, upskilling, and building data cultures

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<h2 id="staying-competitive-in-the-digital-era">Staying competitive in the digital era</h2>
<p>Most organizations have embarked on digital and data transformation to survive and thrive in an increasingly hyper-connected and digitized world. Because of this, businesses are now generating enormous volumes of data which they can use to make better decisions.
To maximize the return on data, analysts need to be empowered with the best business intelligence tools to extract valuable insights for data-driven decision-making.</p>
<h2 id="what-are-business-intelligence-bi-tools-">What are business intelligence (BI) tools?</h2>
<p>Business intelligence (BI) is a set of capabilities and technologies that transforms data into actionable insights to help businesses make smarter, data-driven decisions. Business intelligence is delivered through BI tools which enable a simple drag-and-drop interface for analysts to perform activities such as:</p>
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<li><p><strong>Data preparation:</strong> Compiling data from multiple sources and formatting them for analysis.</p>
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<li><p><strong>Data querying:</strong> Obtaining answers from datasets to answer specific data questions.</p>
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<li><p><strong>Data visualization:</strong> Creating visual representations of analysis in charts, graphs, histograms, and more for easy understanding.</p>
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<li><p><strong>Performance metrics reporting:</strong> Comparing current performance to historical data and sharing results with stakeholders for decision-making.</p>
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<li><p><strong>Data mining</strong>: Using statistics and machine learning to uncover trends in big datasets.</p>
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<h2 id="use-of-bi-tools-in-the-industry">Use of BI tools in the industry</h2>
<p>The concept of BI has been around since the 1960s. Therefore, it is no surprise that dozens of well-established BI tools are already available in the market to help organizations leverage data for business analytics. The two most popular BI tools are Tableau and Microsoft’s PowerBI.</p>
<p>The main value of modern  BI tools is that they enable self-service analytics, faster speed to insight, and an easy-to-use user interface. Instead of the conventional approach of sending requests to a central data team, modern BI tools empower staff to access data quickly and answer business questions by themselves.</p>
<p>Here are some examples of BI tools used in the industry:</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.qlik.com/us/resource-library/volvo-groups-journey-to-data-adoption-and-collaboration-with-qlik">Volvo Group used Qlik</a> to improve the reporting efficiency of key financial results, leading to embedded, autonomous decision-making within the organization.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.tableau.com/solutions/customer/uchicago-medicines-data-driven-response-covid-19">UChicago Medicine utilized Tableau</a> to create real-time dashboards as part of the medical center’s data-driven operational response to the COVID-19 pandemic</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/854431-zurich-insurance-azure-power-bi">Zurich Insurance Group turned to Power BI</a> to build a unified platform for business users to mine and leverage company data more efficiently.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.tableau.com/solutions/customer/jpmorgan-chase-chooses-tableau-enable-self-service-analytics-keeping-rapid">JPMorgan Chase adopted Tableau</a> to shift from IT-owned to business-owned self-service analytics to keep up with rapid industry changes and optimize processes for business success.</p>
<h2 id="what-is-tableau-">What is Tableau?</h2>
<p>Tableau is a BI and data visualization tool that leverages visual analytics to empower people and organizations in making the most of their data. The engaging visualizations created in Tableau help stakeholders make sense of the massive amounts of data available.</p>
<p>Started as a project at Stanford back in 2003, Tableau aims to make data more accessible to people through visualization. It is now a market-leading choice for modern BI and is used by organizations across all industries.</p>
<p>Amongst the BI tools in the market, Tableau is perhaps the most popular. Enlyft reported that Tableau has the <a target="_blank" href="https://enlyft.com/tech/products/tableau">largest market share</a> (16.3%) amongst technologies in the BI category.</p>
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<p><center><em>Survey on the market share of BI tools | Source: <a target="_blank" href="https://enlyft.com/tech/products/tableau">Enlyft</a></em></center></p>
<h2 id="how-is-tableau-useful-">How is Tableau useful?</h2>
<h3 id="1-extract-data-insights-with-no-coding-skills-required">1. Extract data insights with no coding skills required</h3>
<p>One of the main strengths of Tableau is its intuitive user interface that allows both technical and non-technical analysts to build data visualizations and analyses efficiently.</p>
<p>The user-friendly drag-and-drop interface makes it easy to answer complex data-related questions without the need for programming skills. This simplicity lowers the barrier for users to perform advanced analytics such as trend analyses, regressions, and statistical summaries.</p>
<p>Tableau also offers a suite of certifications for analysts to validate and prove their expertise in product knowledge and data visualization skills. This is useful in helping analysts become effective data practitioners since these certifications are highly relevant anywhere in any industry or role.</p>
<h3 id="2-democratize-data-insights-with-dashboards">2. Democratize data insights with dashboards</h3>
<p>A classic BI application most people will be familiar with is the <strong>dashboard</strong>, where data is obtained from multiple sources and presented visually in charts and graphs to give a sense of the company’s processes and strategies.</p>
<p>Tableau comes with many workbook features for users to readily create well-designed interactive dashboards.
It can also connect to a wide range of data sources (e.g. SQL Server, Excel spreadsheets, Amazon Redshift etc.). As a result, these dashboards can be enriched with comprehensive data from various applications across the organization.</p>
<p>These dashboards go a long way in aligning an organization’s strategic efforts, uncovering critical insights, and speeding up enterprise-wide decision-making. When many users are trained to create such dashboards, data insights can be democratized at scale to help transform the business into a data-driven company.</p>
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<p><center><em>Example of a sales dashboard built with Tableau | Source: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/tracks/tableau-fundamentals">DataCamp&#39;s Tableau Fundamentals Track</a></em></center></p>
<h3 id="3-tell-data-stories-with-advanced-data-visualization">3. Tell data stories with advanced data visualization</h3>
<p>Compelling data storytelling is more important than ever, given the burgeoning amounts of data generated in the digital age.</p>
<p>Dashboards are great for monitoring data and telling users <strong><em>what</em></strong> is happening. However, <strong>data stories</strong> help shape the data into a step-by-step process to explain <strong><em>why</em></strong> specific trends are happening.</p>
<p>Tableau allows users to string together a series of visualizations (including dashboards) to form a visual story to communicate data insights, provide context, and demonstrate how decisions relate to outcomes.
The ability to weave advanced visualizations (e.g. geospatial mapping) into a coherent data narrative is what sets Tableau apart from other tools like Excel. These data stories are highly effective in framing a compelling case to communicate actionable insights to decision-makers, which aligns with the primary goal of business intelligence.</p>
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<p><center><em>Example of a Tableau data story created to answer questions relating to bike-sharing data | Source: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/courses/creating-dashboards-in-tableau">Creating Dashboards in Tableau</a></em></center></p>
<h2 id="democratizing-data-science-with-tableau-and-datacamp">Democratizing data science with Tableau and DataCamp</h2>
<p>NewVantage Partners’ <a target="_blank" href="https://www.newvantage.com/thoughtleadership">2021 Big Data and AI Executive Summary</a> revealed that only 24% of the firms are deemed data-driven. To unlock the value of data, employees need to equip themselves with tools to learn from their data effectively.</p>
<p>Tableau is a widely used business intelligence and analytics software trusted by companies like Amazon, Experian, and Unilever. With its user-friendly drag-and-drop functionality, Tableau empowers everyone in the organization to explore, analyze, share, and visualize business data and democratize insights for all.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/tracks/tableau-fundamentals">DataCamp’s Tableau Fundamentals skill track</a> will enable your team with the skills to democratize data at scale, and pass Tableau’s Desktop Specialist certification.</p>
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<h2 id="digital-transformation-in-the-modern-era">Digital Transformation in the Modern Era</h2>
<p>In our increasingly hyper-connected and digitized world, tremendous amounts of data are generated daily from the many online interactions that take place. Many organizations recognize the value of this and have embarked on digital transformations to leverage the burgeoning volumes of data to drive their businesses.</p>
<p>As enterprises strive to become data-driven, there are several key components that they must get right, one of which is equipping the employees with the right data tools to do their best work.</p>
<p>R is a powerful tool that forms an integral part of the modern-day data science toolkit. In this blog post, we explore the capabilities of R and the compelling reasons why you should train your teams on it.</p>
<h2 id="what-is-r-">What is R?</h2>
<p>R is an open-source programming language optimized for statistical analysis and data visualization. Developed in the early 1990s by statisticians Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentlemen, it has grown into a reputable data mining and analysis ecosystem.</p>
<p>Its goal is to create a more user-friendly way of performing statistics, data analysis, and data visualization. Despite its long history, R is still highly prevalent in data science today, and is often considered the programming language with the lower barrier to entry for beginners.</p>
<p>R is home to a rich community-driven ecosystem comprising more than 17,000 curated packages within the <a target="_blank" href="https://cran.r-project.org/">CRAN</a> repository. R packages are akin to apps that allow practitioners to perform a variety of tasks on R. With audited contributions from data professionals, the repository consists of many models and tools that empower users to prepare data, build powerful statistical models, and create beautiful visualizations.</p>
<p>Here are some industry use cases of R:</p>
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<li><p>ANZ (Australia and New Zealand Banking Group) used R in <a target="_blank" href="https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2011/08/how-anz-uses-r-for-credit-risk-analysis.html">credit risk analysis</a> to assess the probability of loan default</p>
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<li><p>John Deere used R to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.slideshare.net/RevolutionAnalytics/order-fulfillment-forecasting-at-john-deere-how-r-facilitates-creativity-and-flexibility">forecast customer demand</a> for their equipment so that they can adjust optimally to the factors that impact order fulfillment</p>
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<li><p>Zillow, a leading real estate marketplace in the USA, used R to <a target="_blank" href="https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/08/how-r-is-used-at-zillow-to-estimate-housing-values.html">estimate housing prices</a>.</p>
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<li><p>The City of Chicago used R to <a target="_blank" href="https://chicago.github.io/food-inspections-evaluation/">predict which restaurants are likely to commit violations in sanitation inspections</a> to prioritize these outlets for review.</p>
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<li><p>AirBnB developed internal R packages to <a target="_blank" href="https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/using-r-packages-and-education-to-scale-data-science-at-airbnb-906faa58e12d">facilitate the efficient movement of data</a> across various storage locations (e.g. Presto, AWS S3)</p>
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<p>If you are wondering <a target="_blank" href="https://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-is-R-named-R_003f">how R got its name</a>, it is based on the first names of the two creators (Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman) and a play on the name of the older S programming language, on which R is built.</p>
<h2 id="how-is-r-useful-">How is R useful?</h2>
<h3 id="-i-ease-of-use-and-accessibility">(i) Ease of use and accessibility</h3>
<p>A key strength of R is the presence of numerous well-established packages for data manipulation and statistical analysis. Its open-source nature also means that anybody can gain access to R’s rich capabilities. Within the extensive R ecosystem, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.tidyverse.org/">Tidyverse</a> is the most famous collection of R packages for data science.</p>
<p>Tidyverse is a collection of easy-to-use packages designed for data import, manipulation, visualization, and reporting tasks. These packages share the same design, grammar, and data structures, which in turn streamlines the learning of R since getting familiar with one package allows you to transition over to the next one readily.</p>
<p>R is also commonly considered as one of the easier programming languages for data manipulation, so the barrier to learning and applying R is relatively low.</p>
<p>While spreadsheet software like Excel can perform data analysis, it struggles to handle long repetitive data manipulation tasks involving big datasets. If you have tried working on large datasets of more than 100,000 rows in Excel, you will understand how tediously slow the program can become.</p>
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<p><center><em>With 3 intuitive lines of code, you can filter a dataset based on column condition, and arrange it by another column condition</em></center></p>
<p>On the contrary, R can produce detailed analyses efficiently, even for large datasets. This is helpful for projects where you need to process a myriad of large complex datasets repeatedly and cannot afford to consume too much time or computing resources.</p>
<h3 id="-ii-data-manipulation-and-visualization">(ii) Data manipulation and visualization</h3>
<p>The Tidyverse collection contains packages designed for data-related tasks, including popular ones like:</p>
<ul>
<li><p><a target="_blank" href="https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/"><strong>dplyr</strong></a> – Comprises a set of easy-to-understand commands for data manipulation</p>
</li>
<li><p><a target="_blank" href="https://tidyr.tidyverse.org/"><strong>tidyr</strong></a> – Provides functions to create data in a tidy format for analysis and storage</p>
</li>
<li><p><a target="_blank" href="https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/"><strong>ggplot2</strong></a> – Consists of methods and functions for building impactful data visualizations</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>When used in tandem, these packages allow users to perform data manipulation and analysis efficiently and present insights effectively in highly precise and informative visualizations.</p>
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<p><center><em>From the ggplot2 plot above, we can readily glean insights about the GDP per capita across continents over time.</em></center></p>
<h3 id="-iii-reporting-and-dashboarding">(iii) Reporting and dashboarding</h3>
<p>After performing data manipulation, analysis, and modeling, the final (and arguably the most important) step is to ensure that the insights are communicated meaningfully.</p>
<p>Besides static visualizations built with ggplot2, interactive dashboards can be created for stakeholders to engage in self-service business intelligence. These dashboards allow business users to directly access the dashboards by themselves to answer their own data questions</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://shiny.rstudio.com/">Shiny</a> is an excellent R package that enables people to build and publish dashboards for sharing with others easily. Its ease of use allows even those without much technical experience to create powerful and professional dashboards.</p>
<p>Here is an example of a Shiny dashboard used for the monitoring of New Zealand trade information:</p>
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<p><center><strong>Source:</strong> <a target="_blank" href="https://shiny.rstudio.com/gallery/nz-trade-dash.html">RStudio Shiny Gallery</a></center></p>
<h2 id="democratizing-data-science-with-r">Democratizing data science with R</h2>
<p>According to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.forrester.com/webinar/Struggling+To+Find+Value+In+Data+Insights+Service+Providers+Deliver+Business+Value+And+Build+Culture+And+Capacity/-/E-WEB31126?objectid=WEB31126">Forrester</a>, companies make fewer than 50% of their decisions based on data instead of gut feeling, experience, or opinion. To unlock the value of data, employees need to upskill and equip themselves with tools to learn from their data efficiently and effectively.</p>
<p>The good news is that powerful data tools need not cost much at all. R is a free, open-source programming language that makes it easy to perform critical data science tasks like data manipulation, modeling, and visualization.</p>
<p>R is a practical yet intuitive skill for technical and non-technical employees to learn and apply, given its relatively low barrier to entry. With these valuable data skills in place, enterprises will be on their way to achieving the positive business outcomes of operating as a data-driven company.</p>

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<p>For this blog post, we sat down with three learners to understand how using Workspace has benefited their learning journeys and helped them advance their career prospects.</p>
<h3 id="the-perfect-upskilling-environment">The perfect upskilling environment</h3>
<p>Muhammad Salman is a behavioral science practitioner in Singapore who has been using Datacamp as a way to upskill in data analysis with R.</p>
<p>After getting started with DataCamp out of an interest in AI, he realized along the way that his interests aligned better with R. Using DataCamp, He made the switch and has been diligently practicing since the start of the year, completing a total of 15 courses!</p>
<p>Muhammad used Workspace as a tool to continue his learning journey and apply his newly acquired data skills.</p>
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<h3 id="the-ideal-personal-development-environment">The ideal personal development environment</h3>
<p>Nathan, a product manager at edX, started using DataCamp in early 2017. Back then, he used it as a means to discover Python and analytics and completed over 15 courses and data science career tracks!</p>
<p>Once Workspace was released, he started to use it as a portfolio with a two-fold purpose: First, to be able to connect all the things he’s learned as practice, and second, to build a learner record of all his courses and work completed that can be viewed on his profile. He continues to explain that the primary goal was to create an artifact of his thinking—“what I can” versus “what I cannot.”</p>
<p>The idea of Workspace for Nathan was not just knowledge acquisition, but retention and practice. This is seen in his Workspace publication on Airbnb in New York based on a dataset from Kaggle, which felt close to home given he was in the process of booking a honeymoon. It’s the little things like that that can make practicing and applying your skills even more worthwhile.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Workspace was the ideal tool for me to really push the limits of my data science learnings. - Nathan</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Nathan is going to be starting his Masters in Applied Data Science this fall at the University of Michigan. He accredits DataCamp for helping him get accepted and we can’t wait to see the amazing things he is going to accomplish!</p>
<h3 id="the-convenient-online-coding-tool">The convenient online coding tool</h3>
<p>Ray started with a pharmaceutical background but aims to diversify into data science. To do so, he enrolled in a graduate degree program at UC Boulder to kickstart his career.</p>
<p>Ray is primarily using Workspace as a tool to build out his portfolio for career development purposes. He used his skills to publish a wide array of insights, ranging from an analysis on global health and wealth to dice games. Ray has been using Workspace as his go-to-tool to practice and apply his code.</p>
<p>The unique value proposition that Workspace provides, like the cloud-based coding environment with no installation, is what Ray finds the most enticing:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>What I enjoy most about Workspace is that I can almost have a bit of a pseudo-cloud set up where I can... log onto single-point and continue (working). - Ray</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Interested in finding out how Workspace can improve your learning journey? Get started with <a target="_blank" href="http://workspace.datacamp.com/">Workspace</a> today!</p>
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<p>With organizations embarking on digital and data transformations to stay competitive in an increasingly digital world, they must equip their employees with skills and tools to make the best use of the massive volumes of data.</p>
<p>If there is a single universal language at the core of the data industry, then SQL is the answer. SQL, if democratized, is a powerful enabler in transforming an organization into a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/community/blog/the-past-and-present-of-data-science">data-driven</a> enterprise.</p>
<h3 id="what-is-sql-">What is SQL?</h3>
<p>SQL (pronounced either as ‘Sequel’ or ‘S-Q-L’) stands for Structured Query Language. It is a powerful query language allowing users to search through large amounts of data and extract relevant information for analysis.</p>
<p>Since its development in the 1970s, SQL has been an integral tool for data practitioners to access and manipulate structured data in a scalable and efficient way. Several factors drive its ever-growing popularity and importance:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Its simple syntax involving common English words makes it easy to learn and understand.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Most organizations use relational databases to store and process structured data, and SQL is the ideal tool designed to interact with such database structures.</p>
</li>
<li><p>SQL can handle large volumes of data with minimal steps and effort, and these analyses can be easily replicated by re-running the saved query scripts.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="sql-in-the-industry">SQL in the industry</h3>
<p>Based on the latest 2021 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, SQL is the <strong>fourth most popular technology</strong> amongst many well-known tools and remains the <strong>top</strong> language for database management.</p>
<p><center><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dyd911kmh/image/upload/v1631217657/why-your-organization-should-upskill-on-sql-1_ejsdlv.png"></center></p>

<p><center><em>Most popular languages for programming, scripting, and markup | <strong>Source:</strong> <a target="_blank" href="https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#technology-most-popular-technologies">Stack Overflow</a></em></center></p>
<p>The utility of SQL is obvious upon seeing that tech giants like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft all use SQL to manage their database systems.</p>
<p>Its popularity spans companies of all sizes and fields, not just the big enterprises. A look at job openings on Indeed and LinkedIn reveals that SQL remains one of the most in-demand skills for data-related roles across the industry.</p>
<h3 id="how-is-sql-useful-">How is SQL useful?</h3>
<p>Let’s look at several examples of how SQL can be useful for you and your organization.</p>
<ol>
<li><strong> Automating workflows and analyses</strong></li>

<p>Almost all organizations are familiar with spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel. Given Excel’s pervasiveness and history, numerous employees in your company are already proficient in advanced Excel commands and tools (such as VBA) for data analysis.</p>
<p>SQL is an easy and accessible extension to Excel because it can execute all the Excel spreadsheet functions and more. For example, SQL’s JOIN clauses deliver the same outcome as VLOOKUP in Excel. Excel users’ familiarity with data in tabular format also makes it easier for SQL to be <a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/community/blog/how-to-learn-sql">learned</a> and adopted.</p>
<p>Both VBA and SQL are scripting tools that can help automate data workflows and insights extraction through repeatable data analysis. The advantage of SQL is that it has an intuitive syntax based on English words, making it easier to use than the more complicated formula writing in VBA.</p>
<p>Let’s say a movie streaming service wants to show the name and release date of films released after 2000. The team can quickly obtain the answer to this question with a simple SQL query:</p>
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<p><center><em>With 3 intuitive lines of code, you can filter a dataset based on column condition, and show the columns you want to display</em></center></p>
<p>The simple language structure of SQL is evident from the above query, with the use of everyday English words like SELECT, FROM, and WHERE.</p>
<p>Excel and SQL offer <a target="_blank" href="https://towardsdatascience.com/excel-vs-sql-a-conceptual-comparison-dcfbee640c83">different strengths and benefits</a>, so having both tools in a data toolkit makes the team highly effective in handling and automating a wide range of data tasks involving relational databases.</p>
<p></p>
<li><strong> Fast and effective manipulation of large datasets</strong></li>

<p>Traditional spreadsheet software like Excel works well with datasets of small to medium sizes, but the problem comes when dealing with vast volumes of data. The Excel program can become tediously slow (<a target="_blank" href="https://towardsdatascience.com/excels-limitation-caused-loss-of-16-000-positive-covid-cases-a2be4b654c8f">or even crash</a>) if you open and process big datasets (e.g. &gt;100,000 rows) in it, making it untenable for large-scale analysis.</p>
<p>This is where SQL comes to the rescue. Whether there are one hundred or one million records, SQL is well-equipped to process datasets of virtually any size. SQL is designed to manipulate large datasets quickly and robustly, thereby allowing analysts to locate and extract data efficiently.</p>
<p>Because of its speed and rigor, SQL is still the go-to query language for interfacing with modern data warehouses and platforms that store massive volumes of data.</p>
<p></p>
<li><strong> Answer difficult business questions</strong></li>
</ol>
<p>Organizations need to constantly answer challenging business questions as part of their business growth. Along with the burgeoning volumes of data stored by companies in the digital era, there needs to be a query system in place for them to derive comprehensive insights from different data sources.</p>
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<p>The beauty of SQL is that it can easily extract and manipulate large volumes of data stored across multiple tables. Unlike spreadsheet software, where you have to open each sheet separately to retrieve the data, SQL can readily combine data from different relational database tables before efficiently running a query on the merged data.</p>
<p>For example, let’s assume your food delivery business ran a marketing campaign on popular food channels that ramped up weekly throughout the month of June. The business question is: <strong>How much revenue per week did we achieve throughout the weeks of June?</strong></p>
<p>The following SQL query can help to answer the business question:</p>
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<p><center><em>What usually requires multiple spreadsheets in Excel, can all be done in one centralized script in SQL with the use of Joins</em></center></p>
<p>This SQL query joins two tables (orders and meals) with JOIN clauses and then groups the data based on the week of transactions.</p>
<p>Furthermore, detailed SQL queries like the one above can be easily saved and shared with other colleagues, thereby ensuring the replicability of comprehensive analyses.</p>
<h3 id="democratizing-data-science-with-sql">Democratizing Data Science with SQL</h3>
<p>The <a target="_blank" href="https://www.pwc.com/us/en/services/consulting/analytics.html">PwC Global Data and Analytics Survey</a> revealed that data-driven organizations are three times more likely to report significant improvements in decision-making through data science. However, despite the explosion of data collected in recent years, many organizations are not ready to learn from their data efficiently and effectively.</p>
<p>SQL is the ideal tool to democratize data science in an organization because it is an easy and intuitive language that even non-technical people can quickly learn and apply.</p>
<p>Even if only a handful of employees learn the basic SQL queries for self-service analytics, the organization can expect to see improvements in effectively answering business questions with data. With these valuable data skills in place, enterprises will be on their way to achieving the positive business outcomes of operating as a data-driven company.</p>
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Learning SQL can do wonders for any team working with data. Whether automating workflows with ease, working with big data, or answering complex questions, every team can benefit from supplementing their Excel skills by learning SQL. 

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