Related Posts
Any book recommendations on change management?
Hi all, I just got a job offer at PwC for a senior consultant position. The salary is 30% above my total comp right now, but I’m just worried about the amount of work I will have to put in compared to my amazing work life balance now. Does anyone have any experience moving from industry to consulting? I need some advice on what to do. I’m still early in my career (1.4yoe) so I feel like I shouldn’t care too much about wlb, but at the same time, I don’t want my mental health to suffer either.
More Posts
Enthusiast
Bowl Leader
Conversation Starter
Conversation Starter
Sabse bada rupaiya
Want to hear the good and bad of FAANG?
Small business owners who want to rebuild in Minneapolis are first hit with huge bills just to haul away the debris left when "peaceful protesters" burned down their businesses. Large areas will look like war zones for the foreseeable future. This is Joe Biden's America.
https://www.startribune.com/skyrocketing-demolition-costs-for-riot-damaged-properties-delay-rebuilding/572269302/
Bowl Leader
Are you in a toxic environment?
Additional Posts in Technology/IT Consultants
New to Fishbowl?
unlock all discussions on Fishbowl.
Python probably the best language for building a foundation for anything data/analytics
COBOL. Future proof your career!
Oh yeah of course. You’re absolutely correct about that. I just didn’t wanna dismiss cobal!
I'm about to do the same with python starting next year
Python
Python without a doubt. Check out “automate the boring stuff”
I’m almost done the online Harvard CS50 class. It’s excellent and free, great way to build foundational skills and it works up to python
R and Python
Thanks y’all! Python it is
Python, find use cases that you can think of to automate large datasets. Data visualization is also big, but Python will give you the base skills to start thinking how to code. Google is your best friend, try try try and fail as much as you can. Youll make mistakes along the way it’s okay, they’ll teach you the most. Tip of advice, add a print statement in each section of your code to ensure whatever calculations or operations you are performing work
I would also recommend you have the natural nack to do anything involving coding under pressure or as a job.
What a dumb comment
Bitcoin
Python - DataCamp has a fantastic program, they run discounts all the time also. If they don’t have one available at the time, I’d email and ask them
I was about to do a course on Google for $50 a month, thanks for recommendation I'll check out data camp
Python is really intuitive and in demand right now. Georgia tech has a $9k online masters for data analytics you should look at.
Python!!! I got started by installing python, the pandas library, the bumpy library, and a text editor called Atom. Then I started automating mundane tasks with the help of Google!
My team documented in Excel the current state of the tables in our clients environment. We had to recreate tables in a new environment utilizing updated naming conventions, data types, etc.
Because the process of writing the new create table statements would have been lengthy and mundane task combined with the fact that it was a very straightforward rule based process (ie: if data type x then y, string manipulations, etc) I wrote a Python script to automate the process to write hundreds of create table statements in seconds.
The alternative would have been to have a lower level person on our team *me* do a ton of copying pasting and fiddling around in Excel to write the new create table statements which would be bound to have some human error.
Python is the most versatile but if you’re looking to pivot your career, I’d sharpen up on PowerBI (or Tableau if your company already has licenses). It’s shocking how little coding you need to use these tools to great effect but how little time people invest in learning them. Python is great but it’s really easy to get stuck in novice-land.
Also VBA for Excel is often an overlooked way to get into programming. The macro recorder and step through debugger makes learning VBA really easy and useful for automating things like creating slides from Excel workbooks.
Regardless of what you choose I’d recommend being a frequent visitor of stack overflow. These days, as long as you can write a little code, there’s a world of people that will help you turn it into good code for free!
What’s wrong with VBA syntax? It’s not that different the biggest difference is that the ide doesn’t make your format it nicely. As long as you follow decent coding practices yourself it looks fine. You can also update the color settings to make it look more like a better ide
If it’s data science then python.
I’m currently attending University of Michigans data science masters program. 18 months ago I had no program experience. I had to earn a certification (Coursera, Python 3) and take an advanced statistics course in order to be accepted. Python is used in every class so I get a chance to develop skills constantly. The UMich program is $45k and the Georgia Tech program is $9k. The GT program did not exist when I started but if I could do it over I’d probably gone to GT. (Both are 100% online) A good place to start is Python for Everyone on Coursea.
Python
Python, SQL, PySpark
Python. And make sure you have a really good handle on SQL