Weekly Update

by Lenny

Past Week

This week, my focus was SQL and I completed the “Data Analyst with SQL” career track on DataCamp. Tracks on DataCamp are essentially sequences of courses that are tailored to a certain skill or career. Although DataCamp courses are not very challenging, I find that they provide good quality content and are quite useful for getting familiar with new concepts. I understand that I will not master any languages or data skills simply through DataCamp, but I believe that it gives me a strong foundation of knowledge which I can apply in further projects and jobs to achieve mastery.

I also built a web scraper in Python to scrape last minute deal packages from the Air Canada website, which I will push to my GitHub shortly. I enjoyed working on it more than I expected and plan to improve it and build other scrapers, while developing my scraping skills in the process. This will be my project-based way of building my data collection skills as I learn more about data analysis and machine learning.

In terms of advancing my learning, my aim is to shift my focus to Python and work through some DataCamp Python tracks at a fast pace in the coming weeks. I will then shift my focus to working on a bigger project to add to my portfolio and showcase my data analysis skills. I believe that I will be job-ready in about a month and will try to secure a data job within two or three months.