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We are thrilled to announce the next batch of LIVE shows in our Mavens of Data series! Each week, you'll hear amazing perspectives and actionable advice from some of your favorite data pros. Check out this lineup… More Than a Brand: Turning Your Data Expertise Into a Real Product with SCOTT Olúwafẹ́mi TAYLOR 📅 Thursday, April 3, 2025 @ 12:00 PM ET Creating Tools and Working with Data in Finance with 🔥 Matt Dancho 🔥 📅 Thursday, April 10, 2025 @ 12:00 PM ET Business 101 for Data Professionals with Jordan Morrow 📅 Thursday, April 17, 2025 @ 12:00 PM ET Trends, Community, and Standing Out as an Analyst in 2025 with Dustin Schimek 📅 Thursday, April 24, 2025 @ 12:00 PM ET Join us live, hear some great stories and fantastic advice, and participate in LIVE Q&A with our expert guests. Reserve your spot: https://bit.ly/4iPenDk Who do you want to see in an upcoming show? Let us know! 👇 #learn #data #careers #live #mavensofdata #free #webinar

Breaking into data analytics can be brutal. There are hundreds of applicants, endless tools to learn, sketchy recruiters, and job applications that seem to go nowhere… But it doesn’t have to be this painful. In this video, Chris Dutton will walk you through the exact 5-step process that helped launch his own career: 🔘 Step 1: Find your path 🔘 Step 2: Learn how to THINK like an analyst 🔘 Step 3: Build foundational skills (Excel, SQL, Power BI/Tableau) 🔘 Step 4: Showcase your portfolio 🔘 Step 5: Build a personal brand PLUS he'll cover the biggest mistakes to avoid, review essential tools (including AI models like ChatGPT & Copilot), and share free resources to help fast-track your own career. Watch it here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eJ3VenK3 #data #analytics #datacareers #dataanalystjobs #careers

Ever wondered what it would be like to learn data skills LIVE from the Maven team? Now’s your chance to find out…👀 In the next two weeks, you have TWO CHANCES for an exclusive sneak peek at a live cohort learning experience from Maven Analytics! Thursday, March 27th @ 12 pm ET: Learn Advanced Excel LIVE with Matt Mike and Enrique Ruiz! REGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/4ht4dHk Friday, April 4th @ 12 pm ET: Learn MySQL LIVE with Alice Zhao and Matt Mike! REGISTER HERE:  https://bit.ly/4hHpzAZ These immersive programs go deep in Power BI, SQL, Python, and Advanced Excel, and are designed for people who want to: 👉 Learn in an immersive, small-group setting 👉 Stay accountable with weekly assignments 👉 Get direct access to expert instructors & career coaches 👉 Build portfolio projects and get personalized feedback 👉 Join weekly live workshops and office hours All programs include access to a private community and dedicated coach, weekly live workshops, and a 1-year Pro subscription to the Maven Analytics platform (or LIFETIME if you purchase a 4-program bundle). #learn #Excel #SQL #live #data #analytics #careers #upskill

🎬 UPDATE: Maven Pixar Challenge 🎬 This one is really starting to heat up! Check out the awesome work we've seen already from these entrants… Islam Omar, Marie-Anne Melis, Rima Chodankar, Jeet Ghosh, Abdallah Ibrahem, Hassan Azhar, Abhishek koundle, Herohito Valmoria, Justyna Wnęk, Izabela Witczak, Lucas Assis, Keerthan Poojary, Shreya Asthana, Shashank Asthana, Jenil Mar Lim, Samuel Oyedele and more! Great job everyone 👏👏 For those who are still waiting to join, you've got plenty of time to dive into this great streaming data and add a great project to your portfolio. And if this personalized project isn't enough incentive… For more chances to win, we'll be crowning 3 separate winners for each challenge! 🏆 A general "Challenge Winner" (like always) 🏆 A "First-time Entrant" winner 🏆 A "Fan Favorite" winner (based on project likes on Showcase) To enter: 1️⃣ Create your data viz 2️⃣ Submit your entry to the Pixar Challenge on Maven Showcase 3️⃣ Post your entry on LinkedIn, tagging us and using #mavenpixarchallenge (Quick note: Project likes from fake accounts will not count towards the Fan Favorite vote) Challenge closes 03/31. Check out the full details here: 👉 https://bit.ly/3F8x8Ts #mavenpixarchallenge #learn #data #analytics #dataviz

Excel is the universal tool of the professional world. Working on a retail inventory sheet?  You’re using Excel. Need to quickly calculate the staff’s tip share at your restaurant? Excel. Looking for a budget-and-beginner-friendly way for your management team to calculate P&L? Excel. Tracking marketing outcomes? Excel does that, too, and a million other things that make it the most widely adopted tool on the market. But do you REALLY know the power of that same tool you’ve been “using” for the last decade? This week on the Maven Blog, Matt Mike is sharing a few of the most useful Excel functions you need to add to your toolkit. Read it here 👉 https://bit.ly/4idNPf3 #learn #Excel #data #analytics

Looking for a great project to practice some basic Excel skills and add to your portfolio? Check out our Coffee Shop Sales Guided Project! In this FREE beginner-level guided project, you’ll follow along with Chris and use Excel to build an interactive dashboard to explore and analyze coffee shop sales. Here’s your brief: You’ve recently become a franchise owner at Maven Roasters, a coffee shop chain with three locations in New York City. To better understand purchase behavior and streamline operations, you’ve collected transactional data from Jan-Jun 2023. Your goal is to transform the data into a dynamic dashboard that franchise owners can use to identify patterns, trends, and opportunities for the business. Along the way, you’ll… 1️⃣ Profile and prepare the raw data for analysis 2️⃣ Explore the data with Excel PivotTables 3️⃣ Build a dynamic dashboard to visualize patterns and trends Sound interesting? Get started today! 👉 https://bit.ly/41X8EnN #excel #learn #data #analytics #guidedproject #portfolio

LIVE SHOW with Yujian Tang! Building Your Network in Data: Communities, Hackathons & Career Growth 📅 Thursday, March 20, 2025 @ 12 PM ET You'll learn:    👉 How getting involved in different communities can accelerate your career and open up unexpected opportunities 👉 The key differences between various data communities and how to find the right fit 👉 What it takes to build and nurture a thriving community of your own 👉 The evolving role of the Developer Advocate in growing data product visibility through community You can join a new live show every week to hear amazing perspectives and actionable advice from some of your favorite data experts. Register here: https://bit.ly/4kQ30N1 #learn #data #analytics #careers #live #mavensofdata #free #webinar

These 10 Power BI functions are a great place for beginners to start: 1) CALCULATE 2) FILTER 3) ALL 4) VALUES 5) COUNTROWS 6) SUMX 7) AVERAGEX 8) MIN/MAX 9) RELATED 10) USERELATIONSHIP #learning #powerbi #data #analysis #businessintelligence #careers

Are you launching a career in data? Hear what Enrique has to say on that topic... My path to Maven has taught me that “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunities don’t present themselves to you, you find them. And that’s just the start. As I find myself doing what I love for a living much sooner than I could have imagined, I look back at the 5 key steps I took (unknowingly) for getting my shot, taking it, and not letting go: 1. Find your passion 2. Seek out the opportunity 3. Be ready to seize it 4. Put in the work 5. Keep the momentum going Read Enrique's story: --> http://bit.ly/3skMiJH #data #analytics #careers #opportunities #personaldevelopment

Learning SQL and confused by terms like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and T-SQL? Don't be. 5 things to know to make this easier... 1) There is one universal standard for SQL, maintained by standardizing bodies ANSI and IOS, updated every 3-5 years. 2) Different vendors (like MSFT, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc) then publish extended versions of that universal standard. 3) The result is various 'flavors' of SQL (MySQL, T-SQL, etc) as the vendors add bells and whistles to compete. 4) The various flavors are much more similar than they are different. The core functionality is the same throughout. 5) MOST IMPORTANTLY, if you master one flavor of SQL, your skills will easily transfer to the other flavors. I promise. Take John's experience as an example... Learned T-SQL using Microsoft SQL Server at a big company. Went to a startup, used MySQL with phpMyAdmin. Another startup, MySQL using Sequel Pro. Another startup, PostgreSQL using Metabase. Now at Maven Analytics, using MySQL w/ Workbench. We use MySQL w/ Workbench for our online SQL training courses. Workbench is great, and it's free :) The skills easily transfer every time. There are minor differences. No biggie. So, which flavor of SQL is 'best'? Whichever gets you access to a DB to practice on :) #sql #data #analytics #businessintelligence #careers