Tag: Employment

From Priest to Data Engineer in Six Months: How Dataquest Helped Eddie

Eddie Kirkland was a priest and musician with no coding experience. Six months later, he’s now a full-time data engineer. Here’s how he did it.

Learner Spotlight: Data Engineer Student Veena Sanjeeve

Meet Veena Sanjeeve, a graduate of Dataquest’s data engineering career path. Two months ago, Veena started her new job as a Data Engineer at a private IT firm. Here she works with distributed systems on AWS. Here’s her story . . . Q. Hey Veena, tell us a bit about your background … I’m rooted […]

Why Jorge Prefers Dataquest Over DataCamp for Learning Data Analysis

When Jorge Varade decided he wanted to learn data analysis, he tried both DataCamp and Dataquest, and found he strongly preferred the latter. Here’s why.

How Dataquest Made the Difference for Stacey’s Data Job

Stacey had tried learning data science on other platforms, but it didn’t stick — she wasn’t making progress. Here’s how Dataquest made the difference.

How Victoria Doubled Her Salary with Dataquest

The data skills you learn on Dataquest can be life-changing. Victoria, for example, started studying on Dataquest and doubled her salary almost overnight.

How to Be a Great Data Scientist

So you got a job in data science. Now, how do you prove your value as a great data scientist by making a big impact at your new company?

Javier: Learning Programming Online at Dataquest Was Better Than University

Should you learn programming online or at a school or university? Javier Fernández Suárez tried both, and liked Dataquest’s online data science courses better.

How Caitlin Went from Retail at IKEA to Data Science at Amazon

This is how Caitlin went from working retail at IKEA to doing data science on one of the most exciting teams at Amazon (with a little help from Dataquest).

How Huyen Vu went from Zero Coding Skills to Data Analyst with Dataquest

Huyen Vu had a Masters in business and an interest in analytics, but zero experience with coding for data science. Then she found Dataquest.

How Rob Hipps Used Dataquest to Land a Data Analysis Job

Learn how Dataquest helped Rob Hipps get his data analysis career started and land an entry-level analyst job with 3M.