# Alex The Analyst April Livestream!

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- **Канал:** Alex The Analyst
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCPleirm-ZY
- **Дата:** 17.04.2026
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## Содержание

### [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCPleirm-ZY) Segment 1 (00:00 - 05:00)

Hello, hello. Give me just a second. Just making sure everything's working. Everything's working well. We'll get going right away. There's like a 10-second delay. All right, sweet. We're doing good. All right, so I don't know why this my live streams tend to be blurry. I don't know why. I really don't. But hello everybody. Thanks for joining. All we're doing is this live stream. It's just a question. That's it. We're just doing questions. Hey, good morning. I see people already joining. But super simple. This is my monthly live stream. I do this because I try to answer everybody's questions throughout days and weeks and months. But I get a lot. Like hundreds of emails a week. Hundreds of messages on LinkedIn and Instagram and TikTok and places I don't even check anymore. I just can't answer them all. And so I was like, all right, I'm going to do a monthly live stream. And so that's what we're doing. And this just gives you an opportunity to ask me questions. Um Hey everybody, I see people joining. Thank you guys for joining. From Peru. Hello. That's fantastic. That is fantastic. I'm out in South Carolina. It's 10:00 my time. Um Yeah, thank you guys for joining. Recent subscriber. Love the hearts. Thanks for joining. I am always curious as where people are. I think it's really interesting just cuz I live on the East Coast of the US. And so, you know, sometimes there are people just all over the world and it's really fun. So, if you want to share where you're from, I would love to see that. But go ahead and start asking questions. I usually do this for like an hour or so. At the end of the live stream, I will be giving away 10 Analyst Builder courses. Completely for free. There is no I'm not trying to sell anything. I just like giving back. Because you guys have done so much for me. I just want to give back. It's as simple as that. So, and by the way, my computer is right here. So, I'm like looking at your comments and everything right over here. Um We got people from India, from London, England. Let's see. I'm in the UK. Joining from Ghana. Very cool. Bulgaria, LA. So, we got some people on the West Coast. Italia South. Okay. So, South Italy. Very nice. Mexico, Zimbabwe. Awesome. Pakistan. Awesome. Well, thank you guys so much for joining. I'm I'll keep reading these comments as we go. But um Yeah, this is a pretty chill live stream. It's nothing fancy. I am just going to answer your questions and do the best that I can and then give away some courses at the end. That's it. So, go ahead and start asking your questions if you have any. Some people like to just join because for whatever reason they just want to hear my voice. It's like I'm you know, their Friday morning. They want to drink some coffee and listen to my my voice and that's fine. You can just be a lurker. I'm just kind of a watcher. It's fine. Let me off my glasses. Or you can ask some questions and get some answers. It can be questions about anything by the way. I see a bunch of people posting where they're from. I'll get to that in a second. But um genuinely ask on anything. It can be about life, about relationships, AI, data jobs, the economy, anything you think is interesting. Doesn't mean I'm going to answer it, but you can ask it. All right. I'm going to go up. But we got more people from California, from South Africa, Nigeria, Romania, Lagos, Nigeria, India, Canada, France, Oregon. Very cool. Um people from all over the world. So, you guys are a very broad and diverse group that are watching right now. Very cool. Uh let's see. What is sequel for payments? I don't know what that means. Give me more context. When it comes to this is Donnely. Hey Donnely. I know you. When it comes to posting on LinkedIn, should I focus more on my journey in completing my first portfolio a second. I feel like this computer is way over. All right, there we go. Good enough. Let me see if I can Um but he's Should I focus more on my journey in completing my first portfolio project or should I do some more informative posts as well? I mean honestly, when it comes to like posting on social media and building a personal brand and stuff like that, it's whatever you want to make it. Um I used to only post like technical content and over time it's shaped. Now I post, you know, stuff about my family

### [5:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCPleirm-ZY&t=300s) Segment 2 (05:00 - 10:00)

and running a business and other things. I think wherever you're at in that moment is what you should post about. So, if you're building projects and building a portfolio, share those things. Talk about how you built them. And if you want to post technical stuff, like if you're learning different things in SQL or, you know, you learned something cool in Excel or whatever it is, share those things because other people may be learning just like you. And want to, you know, learn those things as well. And so I just think if you're at whatever stage you're at, that's what you should be sharing. And I'm a big believer in creating a personal brand and posting on social media cuz it's completely for free. You just have to kind of put some time into it while you're you know, learning and whatnot. All right, this one's from Olateinka 7621. Hi Alex, I'm from Nigeria. I started my data analysis course on your channel a few weeks ago. It's the intermediate level, but I'm seeing some opinions like data analytics doesn't and then it cuts off. Okay, I thought that was going to go somewhere. Uh if you finish that question later, then I will look at that question. Do you have any advice on how to look for jobs in different countries as a data analyst? Now, this is a good question. I get asked this a lot. I live in the United States. I know the United States market really well because I've looked into it. I've experienced it. I've lived it. I've had jobs in different states. I know it extremely well. I don't know job hiring globally. All I can say is when I was a manager and when I worked at you know, just a bigger company, we would take get a lot of contractors from other countries. So, when I on my team, we had people from Lithuania and England and in India who are on my personal team who I actually hired. And we mostly hired them through companies like Accenture or TCS. These are, you know, consulting companies in other countries. And so we paid them less. But it was a good rate for their country, but less in US dollars. And so, if you have the ability, those types of places I know for sure are always, you know, looking for good people to hire. I'm pretty sure it's competitive to get into those places. But other than that, I mean, remote if you're looking purely for just like remote jobs and you're not looking like in person, remote jobs are really saturated. Very difficult. They are out there. But you're going to have to work really hard to land those jobs. — [snorts] — Let's see. Alex, any advice on getting entry-level tech jobs as a data analyst and business analyst? All right, I'm going to just assume that you're in like in the United States. If I were starting today, like I'm I don't have a degree in anything data related. — [clears throat] — I don't know why people listen to me. But um if you were just getting started, like if I was just out of college, maybe I have a degree in finance or whatever and you're like, I want to be a data analyst. What I would be doing is one Again, there okay, there's two different scenarios. Right out of college and like you already have experience in a different domain. So, I'll cover both. But if you're right out of college, you're going to create a portfolio. You're going to work with things that resources that you already have on hand. For example, if you get out of a college, typically they have some type of resource for new hire or for people just exiting to get a job. It's like career planning and all these different things. So, look at your college and see if they have that resource. My previous college had that resource. I didn't use it. But you can use it. And what they'll do is they'll connect you with alumni from your school who may be hiring in that area. And so that is something that a lot of colleges do have in the United States. And so I would look at that. I would also be reaching out to look for internships, to look for entry-level jobs, reaching out directly to recruiters, you know, starting posting on social media. There I have so many videos on how to apply. I also have a full like course on Analyst Builder about how to apply to jobs. And so that's you know, that goes pretty in-depth. But that's like my starting advice for right out of college. Now, if you already have experience, let's say you were a nurse, right, for 5 years. And you're like, I don't really like the personal side of things. I like the data side of things. That's just a really common one that I see. A lot of people reach out to me for that exact scenario. That's why I'm using it. Let's say you're a nurse. You have 5 years of experience. Your job application is going to be slightly different than someone right out of college. You have experience. You want to customize your resume to healthcare, to your background. So, that when you go and you target the companies, you don't want to just want to apply to, you know, random companies. You have experience in healthcare. So, you need to target healthcare companies. And for research on stuff like this, this is where something like Claude or ChatGPT is going to be amazing. You're going to plug in your experience. You're going to say, here's the experience that I have. I have 5 years experience doing this, this, and this. Give me the top 20 companies that I should be targeting for jobs. These are the ones that you want to start reaching out to for the recruiters at these

### [10:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCPleirm-ZY&t=600s) Segment 3 (10:00 - 15:00)

companies. You want to start applying and customize your resume to those jobs. And of course, just applying on their websites as well. That always helps. All right, let's go keep going. Let me get this sip of water. I get so parched during these live streams. All right. Data by Josh, cool name. Uh I have my own opinion, but which skills are more important to getting a job in 2026? Technical or non-technical skills? Both are super important. Um as it pertains to actually landing a job, like getting an interview, like you know, nailing the interview and getting hired. Your technical skills are crazy important for getting into the interview. Have to have SQL, Excel, you know, Power BI. I recommend a cloud platform, AWS, Azure, even like uh uh data platform like Databricks or Snowflake. Really great to have on your resume. Some AI experience, right? You don't have to be a master at AI, but you know, take a short course on it. Look at watch some YouTube videos on it. Learn how to use AI within uh for example, I have a bunch of free Databricks stuff on uh YouTube. Those Databricks courses use AI really well integrated into a database system. It is the best platform right now to learn AI with data analytics that I have found. I love it. I've been using it myself for my actual consulting work, as well as just personal work, because I personally love it. And so, I've been recommending it a lot. Um and it's completely free to use. Completely free. There is no cap almost basically on what you can do. So, do that. Um those skills are going to help you land the interview. And once you get into the interview, I'm a firm believer that non-technical or aka, you know, soft skills are 100% needed. Um and even in the job, they're used a ton. But in the interview process, you then have to show your personality. You got to smile. You got to be confident. You have to have those social skills um to help you land the job. Not every job is like that, but you know, the more uh the better your soft skills, the better chance you have of connecting with the interviewer and landing. So, that is uh what I would say. But those are the best skills to have uh genuinely. Let's see. Is Python optional for data analytics role? Yes. Yeah. Absolutely. It's not needed, not 100% needed. And some jobs are like 100% Python. That's like 2% of data analyst jobs in the world. That's very rare where Python is like the main thing that you're using. Um typically it's like databases and different systems that, you know, it could be a CRM, uh some local uh database they have on prem, some cloud-based database. It doesn't matter. It's just databases you're going to be working with. Those are not optional. Uh it skips down. YouTube has a problem. I'm telling you, YouTube has got a problem. This happens every single live stream. I skipped over some questions. I'm Um Oh, hey Data by Josh, same guy. Uh this is my first live stream in 8 months since getting my first data job, by the way. So fun to be here as I have learned so much. Hey, congratulations. Uh share where you got your job, where you're working. Doesn't have to be like the company name, could just be your country or wherever. Um people are always interested in that. Do you want to share other details like salary or how long it took to get a job? Share that, cuz people um you know, people are here to learn and you know, you you're the master here. You got the job, so you know, share away. That's always good. Um okay. Uh Been here since 2020. This is Jeffrey [clears throat] B. And you helped me land a job with Disney. Hey, congratulations. Disney's a big company. Uh really cool company. Uh if again, if you want to share some details, please do. Uh cuz it's really helpful. Um what's your opinion about the new version of Google data analyst professional certificate? Um all right, so uh spoiler, I will be creating a Google AI professional certificate. Uh I have that video. I'm recording it right now. I'll have that in a couple weeks, maybe like two or three weeks. Um the Google data analyst professional certificate, I made a video on that like three or four years ago. And at the time, I mean, it was okay. It was pretty good. I think it for like a very beginner, it's a good course. You learn a lot of the terminology. You learn a little bit of SQL, Excel, you know, you learn some of the basics. None of it goes in depth. Um and that's not really what it's made for. So, it's like it's decent. It's not going to get you a job. Uh but it's

### [15:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCPleirm-ZY&t=900s) Segment 4 (15:00 - 20:00)

decent. Like my content in my data analyst boot camp for free on YouTube goes 100 thousand times more in depth. But it's extremely hands-on. It's not a lot of theory. Uh the Google data analyst professional certificate is more theory. Now, the AI professional certificate that they created and released, I actually really liked. I actually think it's pretty good. It says beginner, but I took the whole thing cuz I had a ton of people asking me about it. I took the whole thing and I actually liked it. Um the Google has some good stuff. It just depends on what you're going for. Um the Google data analyst professional certificate, I don't think is like a must-have in my opinion. I think my free data analyst boot camp on my YouTube channel is better than that one. But the AI one is actually better than what you'll find in most places. It says, um would love if you could gift This is uh Muxic Max. the new data Databricks course. It would increase the skill set and love your platform, by the way. I'm super glad to hear that. I will be giving out 10 codes at the end of this live stream to give 10 courses for free away on Analyst Builder. And if you were one of those lucky people, you will get it for free. Um but yes, I have a full Databricks course that goes way more in depth than anything I have on YouTube. Um it's an awesome course. I love it. Uh Databricks is like one of my favorite platforms right now. And I'm super lucky because they uh also, you know, wanted me to be part of, you know, some of their social stuff. I did some webinars with them. Um I just love Databricks. I was really honored that they wanted me to work with them. But I liked them before they ever wanted uh to work with me. So, you know, it wasn't the other way around. You know, I'm not not some shady uh not some shady stuff going on. I promise. All right, let's go to the next one. Share your insights on the USA market as you mentioned. Okay. I know the USA market really well. The USA market is has been saturated for a while. Recently, it's more difficult simply because of economic pressures. Companies are like big tech companies especially are laying off like 10,000 people at a time. That's not all data analysts, but it is like a lot of professionals in the tech and data world. Um what this is just doing is causing a lot of really highly skilled people to do other things. It doesn't mean that you're all competing for the same jobs, because you're not. But what that does mean is is, you know, these people are either starting other startups, they are joining other companies, they're, you know, taking riskier, less paying jobs. Now, what I've told basically everybody and I've had a lot of people reach out since I started talking about this, maybe like a year ago, um say, "Hey, that was exactly what I needed. " Here is my advice is I know online, you see the headlines, you're you want to make that $100,000, you know, data analyst job at Facebook. My recommendation is not to start with that. I'm not going to tell you to not do that. Go apply for that job if you'd like to. But my recommendation is to look local. Now, I live out in Charleston, South Carolina. So, if I went right now, there are data jobs and data analyst jobs in the Charleston, um Mount Pleasant, you know, South Carol uh Summerville, like that area that are data analyst jobs. They are not going to pay as much as jobs that are like, you know, from Silicon Valley, right? From LA, remote jobs. They're not. They're going to pay 50, 60 grand, maybe 65, 75. And I have looked. That's what they're going to pay. So, you're not going to be getting this huge giant salary that you may be expecting or wanting, but you are going to be able to land a job. And why I say look local is cuz those local jobs do not want people remote. Like that's a Southern thing, maybe. Like out in Dallas, when I was in Dallas, they wanted someone in office in Dallas. The same thing with like in this area. They want someone to come into the office. They want to see them. They want to get to know them. Have them be part of the team. They're more people focused in some aspects than other parts of the country. And so, I would have an a hundred times easier job landing a job locally, even if it's going to be for 15 or 20,000 dollars less, I'm going to be able to get that job and then use that experience later on to work our way up. So, the job market, especially for remote jobs, is like horrible. Remote jobs are so tough to get right now. And they have been for like two to three years. But local jobs are still really in demand, and that's where a lot of people have been reaching out. They're saying, "Hey, I landed a job locally. I'm out in Seattle. I'm out in Dallas. I'm out

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in Miami. " It's a lot like the big uh metropolitan areas. But, there's even people who are like, you know, something Nebraska, and I've never heard of it, and they got a job, and I'm like, "That's amazing. " So, local jobs tend to be the place where I've been recommending and I've been seeing the most success. All right, let's keep going. I'm behind on questions. I take too long to answer questions, and I talk feel like I talk too long on each topic. Uh Ayomipo Awolaja. I'm sorry I can't say your name right, but I'm trying. I really want to learn data analysis, but I don't have a laptop yet. Do you think it's a waste of time to use my mobile phone to learn the basics, or should I get a laptop before learning anything? Start with what you have. I totally get that. Uh just start with what you have. You do not need a laptop. I think you can learn a lot from free resources online that you can actually do from your phone. One example, and you know, you don't have to do this, but on Analyst Builder, we you know, wanted to make the user experience for the phone really good. So, you there's a free section on our platform where you can, you know, write SQL, and you can write Python for free, and you do it all on your phone. And there are other platforms like that. And so, you know, go ask ChatGPT, go ask go Google it, and just find platforms where you can learn things for free um on your phone that are phone specific. Cuz you really can learn a lot using your phone. And then, once you get your you can watch videos and watch tutorials on things like Power BI, which is only desktop, or you can only do on like a computer. And then, watch it, try to understand it, understand like, you know, the data modeling and the data transformation and the data refreshes and all these things. And then, when you do get a laptop, go and practice it. Right? You just do what with what you have. You don't have to have uh everything before you start. I say start with what you got. Uh sir, when will you start making videos for the advanced DAX course? I will be making some more I've already made some advanced courses on Analyst Builder that are full courses. Um I'll be making some more advanced courses, um as well as a statistics course that's coming, uh and a Snowflake course. That's also coming. So, uh yeah, I got um I got lots of courses coming, and DAX is uh a an advanced Power BI course with advanced DAX will be coming as well. Um how to get free data analyst boot camp? All right. If you have never been on my channel, you're new to Alex the Analyst, which is my alter ego for data stuff. Go to my home page, and probably one of the first thing that pops up is my data analyst boot camp. It's a playlist. Uh actually, it's a one video now. I put all the videos in the playlist into one video. It's now just one video. It's like 25 hours long. I am about to release in like a month, a like 30-hour boot camp, which is even bigger. It takes a lot of the Databricks stuff, some AI stuff, and I added on to the end of the original boot camp. Um and I'm also replacing some SQL Server stuff with MySQL to make it more ubiquitous amongst different operating systems. So, um just go and watch that video. Go watch it. It is, in my opinion, and I hate it I hate that it's mine, but in my opinion, it is the best free data resource on the planet. That one video. And I'm going to make it even better in like a month. It's going to be even longer with more free resources. It's all already on my YouTube channel. I'm just putting it together for people to be able to follow it easier. All right, let me get some water, and then I'll keep going. Mustafa Ayman. Given my business background, I'm exploring different domains, MKT, sales, supply chain, e-commerce, analysis. Which of these has stronger long-term demand and is considered more core to business? Um — [sighs] — I don't know. I don't have a good answer for that. There's so many different domains, so many different aspects to businesses, it's hard to pinpoint just one, honestly. All of them are important in some way. I can't tell you which one's like which one's going to last the longest. I don't know. Um Hey, this is from Sak Sakshi Aurora. Hey, former actuarial analyst here from India. Very cool. Left my job 4 months ago to pivot to data. I know Python, SQL, BI tools, and have a portfolio, but can't land a role. What skill or resume tweak am I missing? Well, I don't see your resume in front of me. Just skills-wise, I have been recommending this for at least the past

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3 years. At least. Adding some type of cloud-based platform. It could be Salesforce. It could be Databricks. It could be Snowflake. AWS, Azure, I don't care. Whatever one you is in your niche, in your industry, you can do some research on that. Um put one of those on your resume, learn it, and put it on your resume, because honestly, a lot so many companies are doing that. using tools, and if you already have it, then they like that. Um Other than that, I can't really tell for much from just, you know, just that I can't give more advice. All right, let me look. Um Uh that's not a question. All right, so I'm reading through questions. Give me just a second. Just uh I Some of these I've already answered, some I just don't understand. Um and some are just chatting with other people in the chat, which is great. Get to know people, connect on LinkedIn, uh go out for coffee in real life. Find love, get married, have kids. That's the dream. That is the dream. And it could happen in this chat. But, if you're not chatting, if you're not typing, if you're not making connections, that may not happen for you. I'm just saying. There's a lot of people from Lagos, Nigeria in here. Just saying. You can find your husband or wife in here. Um This I don't know why that I'm just going off on a rant now. Um hi Alex, have you developed a Power BI dashboard using AI? If you do, which AI tool did you use? No, I have not used uh AI for building a dashboard in Power BI specifically. Now, I have built uh dashboards in Databricks using AI. Very good. Uh Out of a scale of a 10, I'd give it like a seven. But, that's still like the highest I've seen or the best I've seen for AI dashboards. Um Databricks in and of itself has a very simple dashboard. Like, think of it like what you're going to find in like Excel. But, it's the basics, right? Bar charts, line graphs, uh tables. You're not going to get anything fancy, and you don't necessarily need fancy, but you aren't going to get a ton of fancy stuff, and there's a lot of things with like filters that they don't have. So, again, take this with a grain of salt. But, you can use the Genie code to build a full dashboard for you, specify what you want, it'll go and build it like 80% of the way. It'll be pretty close to what you want, and then you're going to have to go in, and you're going to fix it a bit. Um but just yeah, I've used AI for some dashboards, um but no, not in Power BI. All right, let's see. — [clears throat] — Not a question. I already answered that one. Sorry, I'm reading through questions. Some of a lot of these I've answered already, or I don't want to answer. I don't understand them. Uh Steve Veruger 6429. I just got hired as a big data consultant fresher role. Any advice? Um first off, congratulations. That's super exciting. Uh I remember the excitement and like the nerves on that first day of that new job. Uh I miss it. I miss a little bit of that. I don't get nervous much anymore. Um not because of ego or I'm like super confident, and I just um I don't know. I feel more prepared these days. Um anyways, I miss that excitement. I'm excited for you. What I would do is I would just say, uh you know, get in there and try to understand like don't start making a bunch of big changes or make a take on a bunch of big projects right away. Um if you're a consultant, like if you're at a consulting company, they're going to hand off a project to you, hopefully give you some type of mentor or senior to follow and shadow. Um just learn and learn as quickly as possible. What that means is try to understand the business first. Um they're going to introduce you to clients, their internal systems, into their databases, and all these things. Just try to absorb as much as possible. Ask a thousand questions. They don't expect you to know everything right away. You know, that that's called imposter syndrome. You're going to feel like you're supposed to know everything right away. You are not. All right? You're supposed to be learning. So, kind of a junior role, just get in there and get your feet wet, um and take things on as you can. Look for opportunities after a

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week or two for small wins. Maybe it's updating a data dictionary that's out of date. Maybe it's, you know, emailing uh an update to something that they're getting every week. Something small. And just take that on, make it a small win, and then go from there. But, those first 30 days are mostly for small stuff and learning. Don't sweat like having to know everything. All right, but congratulations. Super exciting. I love hearing that. A lot of people in the chat who have been getting hired uh recently. So, that's really good. That should be, you know, a positive thing for everyone out here. There are absolutely people getting hired. There are jobs out there. Uh you know, and if people want to share who've landed jobs recently, if you want to share how you got that job, what app what route you took, maybe you got it from a friend of a friend, maybe it was online, uh you know, maybe you have a recruiter reach out to you on LinkedIn. Whatever it was, if you want to share that, that is really helpful information. Let's see. All right. Uh Syed Shahood 7666. It's 2026. Uh I just started the projects that you have added to your channel. Can you tell me if I do all the projects? Question mark. I don't think that's a question. What's your advice to build an impressive CV with certifications? I'm from Pakistan. Thank you. Hello from Pakistan. I have some friends from Pakistan. Uh uh Let me think. You don't need certifications. I don't think you need any certifications. You can get certifications. There's only a few that I actually think are worth it, and there's thousands out there. The thing The ones that I think are actually useful are ones like the Power BI certification. There's the AWS certification. Azure also has like a data analyst certification now. Um those are actually quite good. And I would say they're really good learning opportunities as well. I took the Azure one. I've taken Now, I've taken all of those. Um I've also taken other ones that I don't recommend. Like, I've taken some Salesforce ones. Uh I've taken some ServiceNow ones. Um and they're just they're okay. They just don't mean much, but you know, those are ones if you want to get certifications, those are ones I get. If you go on to alexdataanalyst. com, uh I don't go on there much anymore to post things, but I have It's just a bunch of resources. Resources of best certifications to take with links to them, best certifications to all different stuff. So, I would recommend um I would recommend checking uh those out. Um but yeah, build projects, man. Build projects, create a portfolio. It's all good things. This is an interesting one. I have a mock interview for the role of data analyst tomorrow, and I'm a fresher. I don't know much about Python library. Can you help me with things I need to prepare for? Can you guide me? I mean, I can give you a little advice. Um I'm guessing a mock interview just means it's not a real interview. That's my assumption. Maybe it is a real interview. A mock interview to me just means it's a fake interview. Um which is good. It's low pressure. They're going to be asking you questions. I have lots of videos, by the way, on what data analyst interviews look like. I also made a full course on what on like data analyst interviews and like getting a job. So, go on to YouTube. Search for my videos on that specific topic. You're going to get asked It can be a such a wide range. But, if you're asking specifically about like Python libraries, um well you just said Python lib. I'm guessing you meant Python libraries. Things like Pandas and NumPy and uh you know, Polars and like just some of the popular ones. I'm guessing you're not going to need things like uh PyTorch and all these different machine learning stuff. I hope not. But, um just familiarize yourself with these. There's free resources. I've made free resources on all of those um myself. So, um you know, familiarize yourself with them so that when you get in there, they ask you a question like, "Hey, how would you handle data cleaning in Python? " You would say, "Oh, I might use this library, and you can use this with it. " Like, that's how that's what I would do. What are the high-paying jobs in recent times? I'm going to answer that in just a second. I need some water. By the way, it's 10:30. We're about halfway done with this live stream. Continue to stay if you want. At the very end, right around 11:00, I'm going to be doing a giveaway for 10 free Analyst Builder courses. Just so you know, you do need to have an Analyst Builder account and be signed in order to use this. I'm just disclaimer. People all they What happens is we get to the end, and they're like, "I don't know what to do. " "I don't know how to do this. " I'm going to explain it to you. I'm going to walk through it with you. But, I'm just saying, you got to be a You got to have an account. Um what are high-paying jobs in recent

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times? Um so, there's a lot of jobs that pay a lot of money. I'm just going to start there. Um there's a ton. And in recent times, what I've seen a lot of high-paying jobs is, of course, big companies, big Fortune 500 companies. Um you know, these jobs just because of the nature of their work, they have so much money, they're able to pay more. It doesn't matter what it is. Data analyst, business analyst, uh data scientist, analytics engineer, um data engineer. All these jobs are going to pay well. The more technical roles tend to pay more. So, if you're like a solutions architect or a database architect, uh which I've worked with many of them, uh they tend to get paid really well cuz it's extremely technical. It's a lot about optimizing, a lot of data storage, and things like that. Um and business analysts on the range of those jobs tend to make the least, but they're still making a great salary. Um so, that's one thing. The second thing is niches, right? Healthcare and finance tend to pay quite well when it comes to data side of things. Um there's a lot of other ones if you get it's like e-commerce, certain marketing companies, those can do really well also. And then it depends on like location. So, if you're living in a major metropolitan area, think Miami, Dallas, New York, LA, these are places where you're just naturally going to make more. So, if you're in the middle of nowhere in Wyoming, and you work at like a random company that is just there, you know, maybe you're going to make $40,000. But, for that area, that might be a great salary. Maybe everyone's making like 20. You're over here making 40. But, it's so it's all relative, right? A lot of well-paying jobs are relative. Data analyst jobs are still, you know, in demand, and there's still a lot of need for it. Um people who just understand and work with data well, that could be data scientist In my opinion, data scientist jobs tend to be very specific, right? There's a specific use case why you're hiring a data scientist. Whereas, data analyst jobs tend to be, you know, more ubiquitous, but it's more uh generalized. So, take those on to consideration. Uh there's a lot of factors that go into that. All right, let me make sure. Yeah. All right. Is it okay to use AI as a mentor in some ways? In regards to teaching you coding, but also soft skills, LinkedIn posts, CVs, etc., but not explicitly telling you the answer, just teaching it. Look, I'm a I learn a lot from AI. I highly recommend it. Um I wouldn't say I would not use the word mentor. A mentor is somebody who has hands-on experience, who's lived through the challenges, and then can give you advice on it, and help you learn faster. Um I would consider this more like a teacher. And the difference is they're there just to teach you. Whereas, a mentor is there to help you in like business and in life and understanding all these different things in a personal way. I don't know if that's a huge difference to some people, but to me, I've had many good mentors in my life uh in my career who have made immense differences in my life. And I would not call I would not say AI has done that for me in any way. Um so, again, I'm not trying to be mean. I'm just saying, I wouldn't use the word mentor. I would just use it as like a teaching assistant. Um and in that way, absolutely I would use it. Um you know, there's all sorts of concepts and things that I'm still learning, and what I do is I watch videos on it. I try to implement it. I run into an issue, and then I say, "Okay, AI. Here's what I understand. Here's what I'm trying to do. Explain why this isn't working. " And I have it explained to me, and I say, "Okay, show me what I need to do, and explain why. " And then I implement and I do it, and I'm like, "Of course. It makes so much sense now that I have been shown how to do it. " And so, it's really great for doing it like that. Um it all depends on how you do it. I wouldn't just say, "Hey, teach me SQL. " It's going to be really generic. boring. I'm a builder. I learn through building. That's how I work. So, I need to be building something and building a uh a database, working with a complex data set, and then learn from that. Um and that's how I've learned a lot from using AI. Um, but you know, when I say AI, I was I've been doing that with things like um, Stack Overflow when that was really popular. Um, it's gone downhill, of course, since then, but I used to use Stack Overflow all the time. And I the same thing would happen.

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It's not as much about AI just as genius, it's about how you use it to learn. Hope that makes sense. Portfolio pet Somebody was like, "Portfolio website was clutch for landing a job. " Yes, I think it's really useful. And it helps you gain a lot of confidence, too. All right, let's see. Um, Jeffrey B, I'm reading a lot of your stuff. You're just having good commentary, but the industry is converting back to in-person at least 3 days a week. There are a lot of companies um, that since COVID have been doing return to office. And some of that is just they genuinely believe that people work better in person. Some of that is they invested in real estate, and they want the property to actually hold value, and it's worthless if everyone works from home. And so they're bringing everybody back in because their real estate uh, portfolio is was really hurting. Um, that's not a joke. That is a real thing. So, um, you know, you might be have to be going back to office just so people can keep maintain the value of their property. That's that is the truth. Um, okay, Donnally, yes. Let's say you live in one area, you want to relocate to another area. Do I need to actually move to the city before I start applying, or can I apply when I'm still in my current city? No. Um, I'm going to give you a perfect example, and this was a mentor a mentee of mine that I mentored about 3 or 4 years ago. He was living in Canada. I had a mentoring service where I did one-on-one service with people. Uh, and I tried to keep it super cheap. It was like 75 bucks a month. I meant No, 75 bucks like Uh, no, 75 bucks a month. I was just I was trying to do it for almost nothing. I forgot how little I was charging. 75 bucks a month. And I just met with people once a month and just like walk through questions about technical stuff, but it was more about landing jobs. And so this guy was living in Canada, and he wanted to move to Minnesota. And really smart guy. He was one of my more like ambitious successful people. Here's what he did, and this is what I recommended to him, and then he did it, and then he got the job, and it all worked out. But he had dual citizenship, but was living in Canada. And what he did was is he was applying to Minnesota, and he was just saying, "Hey, I am moving there in 3 months. So, I'm looking for a job. If I got a job right now, I would move there now. " And so the way he was framing it, cuz he was going to move there, is, "Hey, I'm coming whether you hire me or not, so that shouldn't be a barrier to hiring me. " Because I'm going to be there whether you're you hire me or not, essentially is what he's saying. It basically tells the interviewer, "This person is going to be here. I don't have to worry about, you know, all these different things. " And so he did that, he got a bunch of different jobs. He got a job at M3 or is it 3M? What's that company that makes all those like sticky things? Googling this. Yeah, 3M. Yeah, 3M. That's it. So, he works he got a job at 3M um, doing that exact thing. Excuse [clears throat] me. And so, um, my advice, that's just his that was, you know, what he did. My advice is you don't have to move somewhere and then get a job. Uh, I don't think that makes a lot of logical sense because then you're going to be paying rent, you have expenses, and you don't have a job. Um, if you don't land a job within the first 6 months, then that is terrible. Uh, you're going to start borrowing money from, you know, your friends, and you don't want to do that. So, what I recommend is while you still have a job, or if you're looking for a job, to target certain areas and say, "Hey, I'm going to be moving there in 2 months. " Excuse me. X amount of days, whatever you want to say. And I I'm just setting up a job. I'm moving there for, you know, my wife is moving my wife got a job there, and we're moving into the area. I'm moving there because I want to retire. Or that's not a good [snorts] one cuz you're not going to retire. I just, you know, think about that. Think about how you want to phrase that, but you understand the concept. I do not recommend moving and then trying to find jobs. I also don't recommend quitting a job and then trying to find a job. Not a good idea. Are you vibe coding all those funky Python visualization? Uh, no. No, I don't know what that you're referencing. Um, I don't do a ton of vibe coding. Um, I do a little like depending on what I'm doing, but I'm good enough at writing it where it actually having AI write some of it actually slows me down. And so, I don't do a ton of vibe coding. Um, for visualizations, I don't think I've ever in Python

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used AI for visualizations, but it would be a great use case. I would use it. Like if I was But I don't A lot of my consulting work is not in Python. I don't I have a I have several clients. None of them use um, Python. At least for the stuff that I'm working on. And so, it's mostly in like databases and stuff like that. Give me a second. This is a good question. It's from Anna. This says, "If I want to do healthcare analytics and SQL is my weakness, which combo should I focus on? AWS Databricks or Azure Snowflake for project? " If SQL is your weakness, focus on SQL. I'm just being honest with you. I worked in healthcare, that was my that's my background. That was my domain. Um, and I've consulted with a lot of uh, healthcare companies since then. Almost every single one uses So, I wouldn't skip SQL to look at the those other things. You got to start with the fundamentals. Cuz I would not tell you to go and learn Databricks if you don't know SQL. I just wouldn't. You have to know like how databases store data. That's SQL. You have to know how to query understand how data refreshes and data um, uh, APIs connect to things. And a lot of that you can learn in SQL. And so, I wouldn't recommend skipping it. I just wouldn't. This is from Oh, I'm going to butcher this. This is a long one. Mahesha Srivastava 5248. Hey, Alex. If I start learning data analysis today, should I learn everything on my own as taught in your boot camp, or should I learn these AI tools like Claude and Excel, Alteryx Excel in data alongside? Here's my genuine opinion. I think if you start with AI, and you lean on AI really heavily, then you're not really going to understand much. Like in your brain, you won't really fully understand it. And then when you hit roadblocks that AI can't solve for you, you're going to have no idea what to do. Um, we're already seeing this a lot, especially with programmers, like new programmers who are trying to like vibe code apps and stuff. Um, they can get a semblance of an idea, but then actually implementing things, very difficult for them. And it just breaks, and then they try to fix things, and it breaks. I worry about this, and this I'm not getting on to you. This is like more of a larger issue. I worry about a lot of professionals in the data world that are growing up in this age of AI, um, simply because they don't actually have to think through processes. And so, I am a firm believer that you need to know the fundamentals before you jump into things. You can use AI to vibe code, if you want to call it that, a dashboard, but if you don't understand how and why it created it that way, or what the actual business use case is, or how you're going to explain it to, you know, the person that you're making it for, then you don't really have a job. You are just there to supervise AI to do what it's doing, and it doesn't know what it's doing. So, it's pretty useless, in my opinion. So, I 100% recommend learning the basics. Understand how databases really actually work. Understand how queries actually or how queries are actually operating behind the scenes. And I'll give you a prime example of this. Um, and I did this in the this was in the Databricks course on Analyst Builder. You in our final project, we used AI for some stuff, and this was me I was like live doing this project, and we ran into some issues. I know in my head how the code is supposed to look. Because I've been coding for a long time. I'm I know what it's supposed to look like. I know exactly do in my head. I just wanted to use AI to do it faster, maybe a little better. But then as it started writing it out, I knew like in a fraction of like took me like 2 seconds to identify, "Hey, there's an issue. " I know there's an issue, but when you run the code, the code works. The code gives an output, but I knew it was wrong. And so then I had to prompt it again and say, "Hey, I see what you're doing here, but here's what you need to actually be doing. " And then it was like, "Oh, that's what you mean. Let me go do that. " These are the types of things that if you would just trust AI completely, you're going to get stuck at that level one, and you'll never pass it. And you're going to it's going to be really dangerous. So, I know that was a simple question. I would not start using AI and Claude and all these things in different tools until you actually know what Claude is going to do with those tools. I hope that makes sense. I'm not trying to make you feel bad. I think it's a really good question. And a lot of new people they don't want to feel behind. Right?

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They're right out of college or something and they're like, I don't want to feel like the newbie. So, I'm going to use AI for everything so that I look really good. But in doing that, they handicap their actual skills. And it makes it harder for them to get past what AI is capable of. And trust me, I've been using AI so much. I feel like I've hit a lot of limitations in a lot of different areas. And not if I hadn't if I didn't already know what I knew, I would just be stuck. I wouldn't know how to progress. You can prompt AI a thousand times, but if it you don't know what you're doing, it doesn't it's not going to get you know, past that. That is my firm belief. And what I've been posting about this on like LinkedIn and stuff, too. Um so, I promise you this is not a new take. I've been feeling this way for a while now. Is Oracle the most popular DBMS in companies? Um it's definitely one of the most popular, yes. Um and it's just integrated in so many companies for so long that they don't want to switch. They're most like Oracle is not getting a lot of new customers, all right? They are not out here. Their sales team is like minuscule. Their legal department is like half of their company. Because all these companies who are in Oracle want are like suing Oracle. And you can look this up. This is 100% true. They're suing Oracle. And Oracle is basically like, uh-uh-uh, our legal team says, look at the contract. And because of that, companies like cannot get out of Oracle contracts. And they can't switch new systems. They haven't for like 20 years. It's terrible. Um but no, Oracle um is one of the most popular in terms of usage, not new acquisition. That's all I'll say. Skip down. I was reading questions. Skip down. Sorry. Uh All right. Put that person in timeout. I don't like spam. If you're spamming, I'm just going to I'm going to boot you. I usually have moderators here, but they couldn't come and that's no big deal. Um I have to mod it myself. It's the worst. I feel bad having to kick people, but I'll do it. I'll do it in a heartbeat. Uh Let's see. I'm just reading more questions. We'll get a few more questions and then we'll start the giveaway in about 5 minutes or so. You started data engineering course with Azure. I have an Azure course and AWS and Azure course on Analyst Builder right now. That goes really in-depth. It's kind of more data engineering focused, actually. It's my dog barking if you can hear him. Um I also have free Azure and AWS stuff on uh my YouTube channel. Just go check that out. Where would you start with learning how to use and apply for data {slash} marketing? — [clears throat] — Where would you start with learning how to I don't understand that question. I'm sorry. You maybe have to rephrase it for me. I don't know what that means. Um All right, let me answer a few more questions. Is AI going to replace me? Uh depends on a lot of different factors. Here's my take on AI and this is been fairly consistent for the past like year or two. I love AI. I use it all the time. Love it. Um and so many companies are trying to use AI. Not all. I Not even I wouldn't even say most. I would just say like the big ones, right? They start with this new revolutionary technology. They figure out all the kinks. Goes to you know, higher companies and down to smaller companies. Most companies aren't using AI um at all. So, in that aspect, those jobs are really fine. But as AI changes and grows and all these things, there's a lot of opportunity. Um and I've seen it myself. Like I'm a consultant. I get brought into companies and I get I got a message this morning from somebody who said, hey, I saw your stuff on YouTube. My company's trying to do this. We'd like to hire you to do XYZ. And it was in involving AI. That is the kind of stuff that is happening all over the country, all over the world right now. People don't know how to use them. Uh they have ideas. They think they know how to make it work. They don't really understand how all these pieces connect. Um and then when they do get it implemented, it does not always live up to their expectations. And so, companies are trying to use it, hoping it'll you know, help their bottom line. Doesn't always

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happen. And so, when that happens, there's going to be a gap and you need someone to fill that gap. Hopefully a data professional. Doesn't always mean data analyst. Maybe it's a data engineer, analytics engineer, data scientist, anal- analyst, business analyst, whatever it is. Um but there's going to be lots of gaps and lots of companies. Um and so, I do think that a lot of data professionals are going to be pretty okay in the long run, especially over the next 5-10 years. I see more need for people who really understand things than less. Um all right, last question. Uh this isn't a full question. This says, you're now having data engineering stuff on your website, aka Analyst Builder. Um I have some. I have some, but not a not it's mostly data analyst focused. Any advice for a new data manager? TroyR9698, if you're a new data manager, hey, congrats. Um I do have some advice. Um you're going to come in and you're going to have like a team. I remember that feeling. A little overwhelming, you know, you're like, oh my gosh. I'm in charge of people now. I used to be just an individual contributor. Just get to know people. Um really lean on the personal side of management. And make people feel valued. If there's a bad apple, get rid of them. I've had to do that. I fired a few people. And it doesn't feel great. But I can tell you that they were dragging my team down and getting rid of them was like the best thing. Uh when other teammates are coming to you saying, hey, that person over there is causing issues. They're not getting their work done. I'm not able to get my work done because of them. And you keep having to remind them, it's time to let them go. So, cut bad employees off early. Set a precedent. This is we don't tolerate bad employees. Um be really personable. Help people out. Give people the benefit of the doubt. Let people take PTO when they want to take PTO. Um always advocate for promotions. Always try to budget and get a higher budget for your team to get promotions and different things. Your team will love you for it. Um if your upper people say no, then you say, hey guys, hey team, I you know, this is what I advocated for. They will appreciate it anyways. So, just try to always make your team look better, feel better, and get rid of the bad apples and you're going to do well. That's my opinion. All right, guys. It is time for the giveaway. All you have to do um is go on to analystbuilder. com. I'm going to do it myself. I can't show it on my screen cuz I have a bunch of stuff that could accidentally pop up. It's all like business stuff and I just can't have that. So, go on to analystbuilder. com. By the way, we have a week free offer just in the description. I don't know if you want to try out the platform. You can take a whole course in a week. Get it for free. You're going to go over to pricing and go to courses. These are all my courses. I've created all of them except for one, which I got Ben Rogojan to make one on uh data pipelines cuz he knows that better than I do. Then you're going to say, mhm, which course do I want? Modern data workflows with Databricks. I want to learn Databricks. Click on buy. Don't buy it. I am not here to sell you anything today. I promise you. In fact, I try not to sell much. I'm not big on selling stuff a lot. But if you want to, you can. I'm not going to stop you. Now, you're at this pay- this checkout window. It says, pay whatever. Click on add promotion code. I'm about to give you a code. And you're about to enter that code. The price is going to go down to zero. You're going to click pay. You will pay zero dollars for this course. Not everyone's going to win it. I'm just warning you. First come, first serve. If you uh If you don't win it, I'm sorry. I can't control that. All right. I'm going to start creating these uh uh I'm creating a new coupon. Give me a sec. Call this one livestream coupon. That's not the code. I'm just giving people time for just a second to make sure you're in. Uh we're going to do 100% off. And uh let me put in Oh, jeez. I should have done this before. This is on me, guys. I'm the one under prepared here. But hopefully you guys are willing to wait for just a second. It won't take long. Um but I'm just marking what um courses you want 100% off. It'll take just a second. Ooh, I like Git and GitHub course. That's a great course. If you don't know

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Git and GitHub, recommend it. I have lots of stuff on YouTube. I like a series on YouTube about it. Um almost done and then I'll give you the code. Land a data job, automating fantastic self-driving automation. Let me see what I think there's like one or two more. Do Microsoft Power BI and oh Tableau and I have one more. That's the cloud computing. All right. All right, here we go. So, I'm going to give you the code. The first person to type it in gets it. That's just how it works. All right, let's do um This is a tough one. I'm going to make it This one is going to be for two people. Two people will be able to redeem this code, so you have a good shot. It's not just one. The code is llama, all caps. Uh and it's llama because I thought it'd be funny because it's kind of hard to spell. You don't know it. It's not phonetically uh it doesn't phonetically make So, spell llama, all caps. That's the code. Now, let me create the next one. This is all one word. All one word and I'm going to give this out to three people. So, this will be five total, two from the last code, three from this one. Um this code is in all caps, all connected, no spaces. Love you so much. That's just how I'm feeling about you personally. Oh, the that llama one's gone. By the way, if you do get it, you will know because you can go to your um What's the page? Your dashboard. Let me go look. You can go to your dashboard or actually no, no, no, no. Go to your purchases. So, click on your profile, It will show in your purchases tab that you redeemed it for free. And then you know you have it. So, just go to your purchases um in your on your right-hand side. It may also show in your dashboard, too, but I'm just saying. Um that would be a foolproof way to know that you got it cuz maybe you got it, it went to zero, but then when you went to click pay, it said "Ain't. Code doesn't work. " That means somebody got it before you. I don't make the rules. Uh let's go see if love you so much. I'm pretty sure someone's got that one now. Let me refresh this. You let me refresh this, please. Somebody get them. They're gone. All right, if you got it, let me know what course you got. That's all I really want to know is what course did you redeem cuz it I'm always curious. Um I'm always curious as to what people are choosing. Look at back to the chat real quick. I have five more to give away, by the way. away. Don't put llama in the chat. You weren't paying attention. Don't put love you so much in the chat. You have to be on analystbuilder. com at the checkout for your course. Under the pricing page, click on a course and then you enter the code. Some people are listening. Some people are listening, some people aren't. If you already won a course, don't try to get any more. All right, share the love. Let other people get them. Um share the love. All right. — [clears throat] — Anybody get them? I'm looking to see if anybody got them. All right. Um let's give out our next code. And this one's going to be the one for everyone to get. I'm going to give this again This is our last code, but it's going to five people will be able to get it. We'll be giving out 10 total. There was two before, then three, now five. That's 10 total. Oops. Wrote it wrong. All right, this is our last code and the code is friendship. I hope that you get one of these courses. I really do. If you got it, enter the code, it'll go to zero and click pay now so that you can redeem that first. Um yeah, don't type the code in the chat. You have It's a code for analystbuilder. com to get a free course. Um Now, listen. Let me let me check, make sure all they're all gone. I'm pretty sure they're going to be gone now. People get them quick. People get them fast. They get them like the second they hear it, they're typing it, they're get That's gone. They're gone. If you got it, please let me know which one you got. Don't type friendship in the chat. All right. If you got a course, uh tell me what course you got. I'm

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super happy that you got it. If you didn't get a course, you can still get a free course. Go down below. You can get 1 week for free right there in the chat and boom, you get a week free. Take a course in a week. You can do it. You got time. I know If you already have an account and you're not a new member, you can also get 35% off any purchase with 35% off or 35 off. That's the code. Um I am not genuinely I'm It's not going to hurt my feelings if nobody buys anything cuz I'm not a salesman. Um oh, he got the soft skills for data professionals course. Awesome. Awesome. I actually that is my only non-technical course on the platform, but it is so useful. And I I watched the whole thing back after editing and everything. I'm like, this is like really, really important things to know. And so, um pretty great. No, you can't trade the course you won. Tommy, just choose the right course next time, my guy. Come on. All right. Uh If you Yeah, if you buy lifetime access to analystbuilder, you'll get all my future courses for free. All of them. There were people, by the way, who bought lifetime access to analystbuilder back in 2020 three when we launched for $250 and they are still getting my courses for free today and I have people messaging me saying it was the best price purchase they've ever made and I'm like, good. I hope you keep getting my free courses. Keep taking them. Keep learning. Um I There are competitors, genuinely, to me who will charge like a thousand, fifteen hundred dollars for a similar service. I purposely charge a lot less because even though yes, I do make money, I could upcharge a ton. I just choose not to cuz I want to make it the most affordable platform for data professionals that out there. And one of the best platforms as well. So, we're charging less and we're trying to have the best quality, you know, competing with some of the biggest ones out there and I hope you guys if you haven't tried it out, try it out. People just asking, some talking about it, but usually I don't talk about it too much. But um yeah, there you go. No soy tan mamon. I don't know — That guy weird. I've been using it since day one. Remember since day one. That name caught me off guard. All right. Glenn Bradford Jr. Thank you, Alex. I got the Microsoft Power BI for business intelligence course. Congrats. Take it. Let me know what you think. That's a great course. Um honestly, I can't There's no bad courses on there. Just depends on what you want to learn. Uh yeah, but awesome. All right, time is up. It's 11:06. My voice is shot. I know you can't tell. Databricks it is. Yes. Databricks is a great, great tool and great course. It's not a super beginner course. I would more put that like intermediate level. So, if you know if you don't know SQL and Python yet, I would recommend learning that a little bit cuz I dive into you know, a lot of kind of a little higher level stuff within Databricks. It's not super like here's how to use SQL within Databricks. It's more like, hey, here's how you use SQL in Databricks. You already know how to do that. Here's how we actually implement the code. Here's how we connect things. different data sources. Here's how we automate things. Here's how we, you know, process PDFs into raw text. It's more advanced. If I buy the course, you'll get it forever. Look, I'm not stingy. I am not I'm just I'm me and a small team. I don't plan on like getting like, you know how when a when uh VCs and private investors get into things and they want you to optimize for pricing and like make more, make more. That's not me. So, if you buy it, you're going to get it forever. And um if you use that 35% off with our uh subscription monthly or yearly subscription, you're going to pay like 20 bucks a month and you can take all those courses in like two, three and may It depends on how much time you have. Might take four months. In four months, you can save 80 bucks for some of the best courses in data analytics. Like genuinely. Um I try to make it as affordable as I possibly can. I'm not out here to become a billionaire uh like some of these other companies. I'm just here to really help people out and I do make money from it, but I keep my prices intentionally low. I hope that the 35% off or the week for free or if you got a code, I try to give back as much as I can. So, I hope I really do hope that helps. Thank you guys for coming to the live stream. I'll be doing the same thing again next month. I thought the questions were really good today. A lot of really good questions. I don't know if my answers were any good, but the questions were good. So, I appreciate you guys coming out. Stay tuned. I have a lot of upcoming

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content on YouTube coming up. I recently switched over to a Mac. I'm a Mac man. I'm not a Microsoft man. And uh I've been liking it. I'm going to make some content on it. I made one video like a week ago. It's going to go up I don't know in like a few weeks on switching from Microsoft to Mac and the biggest things that I've seen. But, I'm also going to talk about, you know, I have a new found perspective on Macs here. And so, now it might All right, listen. Here it Here's my old machine. This bad boy. This is a HP Omen is a gaming laptop. I bought specifically cuz I needed uh some graphics done for editing. I also needed it for processing stuff. This thing is so loud. It's like a jet engine. And I would be trying to record and it's super loud. And things were then I have an external monitor over here and it starts getting laggy. This is a stinking brand new laptop. It's like $1,500. And it's like just terrible. I've also had Surface laptops. I've had Lenovo's. Every Microsoft I've had a Yoga laptop. I've had so many different Microsoft machines. They all let me down. And I have such high hopes for my Mac. hopes. I hope it long-term it stays how it is cuz it is performing performance-wise performing so much better than my Microsoft laptops. It's not even funny. But, this was my daily driver. And it's really dirty. driver for like Well, okay, let me rephrase this. I bought an HP Omen back in 2021. I had that for 3 years. It broke down. Some of the keyboards stopped working. One of the keyboard key things fell off. Some of my ports stopped working. And so, I gave it to my wife. I did she That's what she uses now. Then I have this one and I just stopped using it. And I'm testing out this Mac. It's going really well. Someone offered me a laptop. Will I do a laptop giveaway? I don't know, man. This is an expensive laptop. I might sell it cuz look, I'm not like rich. I wouldn't consider myself laptop giveaway rich yet. Maybe one day I'll be there. But, I'll probably just sell it on like eBay or something and get a new piece of equipment for the office because I am trying to upgrade things. I know my camera right here for the live stream isn't like the most clear. It's interesting, but I bought a new camera. My actual videos for YouTube, they're very clear. I love the quality. But, for the live stream, I don't know why it's not like as clear as I thought it would be. But, I bought that. I got a stand for my laptop so I'm not looking down. My neck was starting to hurt. Uh What else? I got this light over here. You can't see it, but there's a lamp over here. So, I'm buying little things for my office to make it more permanent and nicer and good better quality. All that being said I don't know if I got that laptop giveaway money. I got to be a bigger YouTuber for that. YouTube ain't paying me much, all right? Trust me on that. Ain't the ain't the cash cow it used to be. I'm talking back in like 2017, if you had like a million followers, you're making like 50 grand. They're out there balling. They're just buying houses. I got a family of five and YouTube don't pay data channels like they used to. So, now it I don't know if I'll do that. Maybe No, I might do some type of giveaway, but it's hard to do giveaways of physical stuff. There's actually a lot of rules around it about giving away like stuff. You have to like do all these disclosures and you have to I don't want to collect people's data on like their emails and addresses and stuff like that and I don't know. It's a bigger thing. I don't know. I'm literally just rambling. I've been rambling for the last 5 minutes. I don't know why people are still here. There's 96 people just listening to me rant. Maybe Maybe you guys are the real heroes. fans. Maybe Maybe this laptop I'm going to buy it and send you guys all How much would I get for this? Say $960. I could send everyone a dollar. That's the math right there. Everybody's getting a free dollar. Send me your Venmo. Don't put your Venmo in the chat. I'm totally messing. Anyway, anyways, now I'm just having fun.

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fun. Do you guys ever use these by the way? You ever use that? The Listerine pack. I bought like a hundred pack of uh That's not true. Each one of these has like 24 in them. And I bought like two or three years worth. They're just sitting back there. There's like I think I have like 10 or 15 packs. And they're very spicy. Now, I'm just watching myself. I feel like I'm just doing random stuff. Hey from Uzbekistan. Very cool. I didn't answer your question. I'm sorry. I tried to answer as many questions as I could. Make a video using Agent-X AI to make reports and analysis. Yeah, I might do that. I've done a little bit of that. I do a lot of it for work. — He said LOL those are so old. Haven't seen those in a while. I hear you on that. The reason I bought them and this is embarrassing. I'm embarrassed. The reason I bought them um was because I like kissing my wife. Uh but after a day's work and like talking on camera, and I brush my teeth in the morning, but after like four, six, eight hours of recording or working or doing whatever I'm doing my breath isn't the freshest. And she was like, Alex, hey, listen. I love you. Not the freshest breath. So, I bought these specifically for my wife. I'm going to go kiss her in just a little bit. All right. Time is it? 11:15, okay. Yeah, I'm Well, you used them when you were a kid. I'm using them now. I'm trying to get that fresh breath. Anyhow. Uh Anything else I want to share? share about my life? I bought a new microphone. This isn't new new. I had one very similar. But, it had a different connection port. It was getting wobbly and not reliable. And I had to redo to retake videos because of it. This is the Shure MV7+ — [sighs] — Listen. Running these channels ain't cheap. Running these channels is not cheap. I'm just telling you right now. I do my best. I don't buy a lot of things. I think just recently this year I'm like, all right, I got to upgrade some stuff. I got to I got to take it up a notch. I'm also learning a new editing software. I've been using Adobe Rush for the past like 5 years. Um cost like 20 bucks a month. I just got DaVinci Resolve Studio version. I paid for it. Crazy. Um but, I can do like zoom ins. I can put my head in a little bubble like the professionals do like the cool guys. Um I can do a lot of things. Sorry, my wife was texting me. She was just Not anything crazy important, but everything from my wife is important. She's listening. Everything's important. It's not something I have to respond to. You know what I mean? Um Anyways, what was I saying? I don't remember what I was saying. Uh where's part two of the Alex the Analyst song? I have been writing a new song. But, it is not optimized for guitar, which I did in my previous. Like if you look up out um truth about my job song that I wrote that. I have it on YouTube. Um I wrote one, but it's not It's more like dare I say almost like a rap. But, I don't know if I could pull that off, guys. off uh Yes. Yes, I do have Kiss Mints and Day to Day Mints. That's correct. That is a flex. That is probably one of my biggest flexes. I got that mint money. I got that Listerine money, guys. That's what I got. What YouTube is paying for right here. That Listerine money. I was watching this uh this funny comedian uh on uh He was on Instagram. I can't remember what his name is, but he's super funny. And he was like he was like a kid and he was pretending to be a kid. He went over to his friend's house and his the friend's dad came in and he was like, "Hey, y'all want something to eat? " And the friend uh the guy who lives with the kid who lives there asks his friend like, "Hey, what do you want to eat? " The guy's like, "Ah, every whatever you want, man. It was you know, no big deal. " He's like, "You mean peanut butter and jelly? " And the kid's like, "Nah, let's go Hey dad, let's get some McDonald's. " And the dad's like, "Yeah, all right. " And the friend who's the guest is like, "You got that McDonald's money? "

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And the kid the guy was like, "Got that McDonald's money. " That's what I feel like. I feel like I got that Listerine money. That's my flex. That is my flex. Oh, I was talking about a song. Uh yeah, I have written out most of a new song. I don't know how I want to perform it yet, though. I just don't know if I'm good enough or confident enough to make like a rap. I really don't. I don't think I can pull it off. It'd be really funny, though. It'd be really funny. And you all 84 people who are still here just listening, I'm just rambling. At some point I actually got to stop cuz I do have work to do. Um you guys are going to be like, "All right. " I knew it was coming. The '90s kid, he gets it. Or he or she. I'm a '90s I'm a '90s kid. All right. I didn't grow up with much. Listerine packets, those are I never had those as a kid. Too expensive. All right, guys. Uh I actually do have to run. This minty fresh breath doesn't last forever. I got to go kiss my wife while I can. Um I will see you guys next month. I'll do another live stream. Um if you have any questions, hit me up on LinkedIn. I always If you do hit me up on LinkedIn, actually send me a message. Don't just connect with me. Cuz I have like 30,000 connections that I don't can't connect with. Um I only have 30,000 connections I can do. I'm almost at my peak. Some people, you know, drop off over time and I can get new ones. The only ones that I accept are ones that people send me a message or if I like actually know who they are. So, send me a message. Um and just let me know, you know, say hey, I watch your channel, want to connect. That's all you got to say. I'll connect. But hit me up on uh I'm on LinkedIn. Um I'm on X or Twitter a lot. I don't go on Instagram too much. Um and then I'm on YouTube. I don't know where else to That's LinkedIn's the best one to go, if you want to be honest. LinkedIn's the best one. I got selected as a big data consultant. I'm talking about. Maybe you're the guy from earlier, but if not, hey, congrats. All right, guys. Take it easy. I'll see you in the next live stream.

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