By Benjamin Rogojan - AKA (The Seattle Data Guy)| dcubed.substack.com
As you progress in your career, your focus shifts from completing discrete tasks assigned to you, to owning larger projects. Being able to execute complex projects with limited support expands your potential impact on your organization. And as you take ownership of bigger initiatives, you’ll need strong project execution skills to see them through smoothly. Project execution is both an obvious and unappreciated need for senior data practitioners. Work settings often don’t clearly teach ...| Locally Optimistic
The LO Admin team is very excited to announce our very first cohort of Locally Optimistic Fellows. Fellow contribute to a one-year commitment of helping support the growing community and events. We are proud to have a group of active community members as fellows and look forward to their contributions over the next year. The Community Fellows for this year are Josh Devlin, Paul Hallaste, and Juanita Palomar. Community Fellows actively participate in Slack, monitoring Slack channels and respon...| Locally Optimistic
Mature data practitioners leverage their technical skills to maximize impact. Learn to work smarter, not harder.| Locally Optimistic
From 2019-2022, I was the data product manager of the business intelligence team at Unite, a sizeable European B2B procurement platform, where I guided our transformation from a “service team” to a “product team.” We went from implementing long lists of dashboards and reports for sales, customer services, and management to turning analytics inside the company upside down. When I left, we had just finished implementing a multi-year vision for the future of the company’s data platform...| Locally Optimistic
Learning is key for career development. Picking up new skills will make you more effective, while teaching others will multiply your impact.| Locally Optimistic
Accelerate your data career growth through a structured approach to developing soft skills. Leverage feedback to become more effective.| Locally Optimistic
The changing landscape of data and analytics has created the need for a new role on the data team - the “analytics engineer”. This role sits at the intersection of data science, analysis, and data engineering.| Locally Optimistic