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From SQL to Python: A BI Engineer’s Certification Adventure

From SQL to Python: A BI Engineer’s Certification Adventure

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Disclaimer This article was created based on my personal notes with support from Microsoft Copilot. While Copilot assisted in structuring and refining the content, all technical details have been carefully reviewed and developed by me. Yep, the title image has a typo…thanks to the creativity of Copilot…life is sometimes imperfection 😜. Thanks for the photo to Jason Leung on Unsplash . After six months of steady learning—roughly 30 minutes a day, almost every workday—I’m proud to say I’ve officially earned…

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Better leave pies for dessert

Better leave pies for dessert

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Example of an odd data viz I recently received mail with the following dataviz that made me chuckle and think: You might think, what the heck is that all about? In my home town an election for a new mayor will happen soon. One of the candidates asked all voters what they consider to be important from predefined categories. One important detail is, that you naturally could pick multiple answers. Just have a look at the percentages and ask yourself…

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Reflections on my session at PASS Data Community Summit 2022

Reflections on my session at PASS Data Community Summit 2022

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It has been just on week since PASS Data Community Summit took place in Seattle and online. I attended from home but more importantly delivered my own brand-new session there (wooohooo!). Here I would like to quickly share some reflections on it. Summit It was an awesome experience being able to present at Summit. I visited the event in Seattle in 2019 in person. To be honest with you dear reader….being the first time in the US didn’t blow my…

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SQLBits: Notes from Adam Jorgensen’s PreCon “Thriving as a technical leader”

SQLBits: Notes from Adam Jorgensen’s PreCon “Thriving as a technical leader”

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This is part 2 of my series on learning at SQLBits. Today I had the pleasure to learn from Adam Jorgensen what it’s like to be a leader and how you can thrive being one. My personal motivation for this ist that I have been doing work as a BI engineer for over a decade now and am currently evaluating how to move on.# The session was truly worthwile…Adam kept it very interactive and Victoria Holt made sure that the…

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