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Just signed the outside employment form in KPMG onboarding system. I actually wanted to start dabbling in creative writing as a potentially monetizable hobby, but I'm guessing this may pose issues.
Definitely interested in the "exception from this policy may be requested if provision of non-professional services doesn't interfere with one's duties of causes conflict of interest" clause, though. Has anyone been able to get one of those before?
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So “data analytics” as you noted is a field, so it’s more about what you want to do in that field? It’s like saying I want the be a SWE, but without mentioning the specific skillsets/codebase to support.
It’s easy to step into if data cleansing/quality is your focus, and you most likely have a little of the background already. Then there’s ETL or data engineering which is going to be more SQL/graphQL/low-code focused. Then there is data science which many would argue is a field in itself, but a general data scientist is able to run python scripts and general stat analysis in R. I’m speaking in generalities, but I hope that helps.
Visual Storyteller
Of course. There’s a lot of different places to start. Researching Data lakes, MDM, and PIM are just the major ways businesses have monetized data as well as assisted themselves with structure for ERP and CRM. Adding ML pipelines onto those have increased that ability. You can build your background into how you see yourself able to support those things. General business analysts can also translate their work easily to data analytics also as much of their work is quality/cleansing/metrics focused.
Having made the change from Civil Engineering to Analytics a few years ago I can say that you likely have all the soft skills of communicating technical and scientific work to audiences.
For courses I’d just find something that can help you demonstrate aptitude in which ever segment of analytics you want to move to.
That typically for someone with no degree is either a visualization tool like power BI or tableau or a coding language like python or R.
A specialist skill in visualization that has good open source courses and is starting to creep up more and more is Looker. Will get you some LinkedIn badges and an in over more experienced candidates
Coach
I have a Masters in Industrial Engineering and made the pivot 20 years ago. At the end of the day, it’s all working with large amount of
(messy) data and extracting trends and insights. The application may be different, the skills and problem solving are not.
You need to get your foot in the door - maybe taking a slightly lower position than you think you should to make the pivot. Happy to chat over DMs
In the same boat as you but I’m close to my P.Eng to will make the jump once I get it.
Get your EIT if you want to be taken seriously in civil engineering.