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It’s honestly impossible to know everything. Since DA punya job scope pun very wide and depending on the industry you’re in. For eg., if you’re a DA for a fitness company, and you don’t have knowledge in fitness, you probably won’t understand what the data is saying. A lot of—
yes actually! this is a very good roadmap. We also received a lot of queries on how to start being a DA. Learning statistics first is a good start. and then you will need to learn some tool to do data extraction, data analysis and data visualization and as stated here, learning—
📊 We will have our second Project Walkthrough soon!
Suhaila will show us how to create your first dashboard using Power BI. She will also cover topics such as Intro to Power BI and Power Query which is suitable for beginners.
RSVP here ⬇️⬇️
Our next member feature is Aisyah Razak! Aisyah works in data analytics and uses her free time to volunteer for the amazing Malaysian AI team! What an inspiration 😍
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Now that we’ve gone through multiple data-related careers, what are their differences? How do they interact with one another? Which one
works for me?
Let’s break down these roles one lapis at a time, through the lens of a Kuih Lapis business 😀
Portfolios! What are they? Why do we need them? What needs to be in them? We will try to answer these questions and include some tips for you to start and enhance your data portfolios.
We had so many questions about portfolios! Great initiative 👏🏻👏🏻
We found an article for you to dive into data projects (GitHub examples too!) ⬇️
In terms of platform to showcase them, Medium, GitHub, own website, even a linkable Colab Notebook will work
Sharing sessions are back!
🧪 This time, Alia, one of our co-founders will share with us how she got into bioinformatics and how she uses data in biological sciences, medicine and healthcare.
Sharing sessions are free. See you there!
*note the time change for this session ⬇️
We have officially launched our first Data Project cohort! 🥳
There are 35 Wanita Data participants across 5 projects that will go on for 2 months. We hope all participants will benefit from this. So exciting!! ☺️
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We want to help change this! By increasing the visibility and representation of women in the tech field we hope that many more will join 🥰
Link in bio if you want to join the community!
Masalah ni a bit prominent, especially perempuan Melayu (atas faktor budaya dan persepsi masyarakat). Tapi, sebabkan jadi developer ni memerlukan constant energy, so nisbah lelaki kepada perempuan dalam dunia developer sangat besar. Ni berlaku globally.
Tapi ramai je strong
Our next sharing session is with Ana, one of Wanita Data's co-founder! She will share her experience working on data projects as a consultant.
Join us to hear more about what to expect and some tips on how to girlboss in your first client project. 😌 💅
Data analysts require a unique blend of both technical and non-technical skills. They manipulate data, apply statistical techniques, and communicate findings to influence decision-making.
Today we'll discuss 3 essential technical skills for data analysts. ⤵️
This week, our Member Spotlight is shining bright on
@suhailayunuss
, our invaluable Development & Strategy Partner. Meet the driving force behind the planning and strategy at WD!
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For International Women's Month, we would love to feature our precious members.
Our first spotlight shines on Izza Hashim! Izza successfully transitioned from a linguistic field to the data industry as a Business Intelligence Analyst! 👏👏
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It’s honestly impossible to know everything. Since DA punya job scope pun very wide and depending on the industry you’re in. For eg., if you’re a DA for a fitness company, and you don’t have knowledge in fitness, you probably won’t understand what the data is saying. A lot of—
Self-learning to become a data analyst is an achievable and rewarding endeavor. It can be challenging but with great determination and effort, self-guided learning is possible. There are three key tips to self-learn. 🧵
🎉 Our first meet up was a success! We had a great sharing session and discussion. Here are some of the Discord-exclusive events we have in store for our members ☺️
Join Wanita Data Discord server to participate:
Can't wait to see you all again in 2024!
Our next session is a Project Walkthrough where we will dive into a more technical overview on completed projects.
Our first session is EDA using Python with
@ElissaIrhamy
. Join us as she demonstrates how she explores new data when starting a project.⬇️
👩🏫Our first sharing session of 2024 is here!
For those of you who are curious on how to start as a Data Analyst, join us as
@suhailayunuss
shares her journey. There will also be a Q&A session, so don't miss out!
Join WD Discord server here ⬇️
Here are some of the tools that Data Scientists may use. This is NOT an exhaustive list and you don’t need to learn all at once since it highly depends on the company and what they use. Choose a few to learn to get started as a Data Scientist ⏩
Thanks for the overwhelming support for this community! There are many exciting content coming your way for the rest of the year:
📊 Data careers series
📋 Pathways to a data career
Be sure to follow us for more content like this!
we have quite a few questions about learning statistics to start as a DA. The short answer is, yes. You do need statistics knowledge to be a DA. You need to know how to apply these knowledge to the data that you have. I recommend watching this video to know some basics and then—
This week's spotlight is shining bright on Hazita, who is a Project Staff at Wanita Data. She is responsible for developing our upcoming data projects 📊
Be sure to follow us on Discord to interact more with Hazita and other members ⌨️
Our first ever series, Types of Data Careers, will start this Sunday! Watch this space as we explore more about what a Data Analyst does and some essential skills needed for this career.
Follow us and sign up to join our community!
It’s finally happening! Our Discord is open for Wanita Data members.
For members who signed up before 6 December, we have given you an early exclusive access. 🤫
📨 Check your inbox!
Stay tune for our official launch date of Wanita Data Discord Community.
Join us as
@noen_chan
, another co-founder of WD, shares her journey in pivoting to a Data Engineering career!
DE within the academia presents unique challenges in terms of processes, the scale & nature of the data involved. See you there!
Access here ⬇️
Exciting things are bubbling up in our Discord server! 🌟 Our community is diving into some fascinating data projects, sharpening their skills in a collaborative, intermediate-level setting. 🚀 Check out these 2 projects we're tackling.
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Meet the passionate minds behind our Wanita Data.
We are so thrilled to have you on board and grow together with us.
If you are interested to be part of the community, our interest form is available at our bio!
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There are so many “hidden” careers in data and the five we have been posting the last few days are only a small snippet of it. We have compiled a summarised version of their anecdotes for your convenience.
🚨Reminder! This is happening this Saturday, January 14, 2024 at 9 pm!
Join our Discord to listen to
@suhailayunuss
talk about her journey as a Data Analyst!
Wanita Data Discord server ⬇️⬇️
👩🏫Our first sharing session of 2024 is here!
For those of you who are curious on how to start as a Data Analyst, join us as
@suhailayunuss
shares her journey. There will also be a Q&A session, so don't miss out!
Join WD Discord server here ⬇️
Data scientist (DS) is one of the most popular jobs in the past decade and continues to be popular. What do they actually do? What skills do you need? We have some introductory information about DS. These lists are NOT exhaustive but hopefully enough to get you started!
Hi Anon, it seems like you enjoy the technical aspect of data. You might want to explore data management / data engineering skills and roles. On that note, insight is also built over time and experience, so stay curious and ask lots of questions about the data ☺️☺️
Every now and then, we would love to introduce to you members of the Wanita Data community and learn how they first got involved in their fields and what they are up to recently. What better way to start than with our Founder, Elissa! 👏😺
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Outside of data science as its own field, a lot of fields require industry-specific insights using data to make predictions or discover new knowledge. These “hidden” roles often overlap in skills and expertise as many data science roles.
Exciting things are bubbling up in our Discord server! 🌟 Our community is diving into cool data projects, honing their skills in a fun, collaborative space. 🚀 Check out these 3 beginner-friendly projects we're tackling.
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Having a Bachelor’s degree is a minimum requirement for most jobs within the data field. How do you take advantage of your degree? Are you curious to know if you need a Master’s, or even a PhD to excel in the data field? Let’s take a look! 🧵
yes actually! this is a very good roadmap. We also received a lot of queries on how to start being a DA. Learning statistics first is a good start. and then you will need to learn some tool to do data extraction, data analysis and data visualization and as stated here, learning—
Let's look at some interesting viz to give you an idea of how various data can be represented. Viz choice can highly influence how we interpret and draw conclusions from the data! Have you tried using any of these, and if so, are they helpful for understanding your data?
Exciting times ahead! Join us on this journey as we build connections, share ideas, and make a difference together.
Follow us to keep updated! 🥰
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Interactive data visualization allows the user to explore and analyze data from within the visualization itself. In this thread, we will introduce some examples of interactive data visualizations including libraries from Python and R to create the graphs!
Thank you for the interest you've shown for the past couple of days!
In 24 hours, Wanita Data will be live here and on Instagram! Can't wait to show you what we have in store for our fellow wanita in data ☺️
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Thank you for your patience. We are LIVE now!
We are excited to create a safe space for our Wanita in data to learn, connect and support each other.
If you are interested to be part of the community, you may fill our interest form here.
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It is so easy to feel alone in this field when there is a limited representation.
We believe that it is important for us to have a community where we can share knowledge, experiences and empower one another.
Join us and grow together with other Wanita in data!
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The future belongs to the data-savvy! 🌐 What is a Data Manager/Data Engineer? Let’s find out! Whether you're fascinated by numbers or drawn to the mysteries of code, the DM/DE path welcomes you. Start your journey today! 🌟
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🎉 To wrap up International Women's Month 2024, we would like to feature Sarah who does a lot of data analytics, engineering and developing and are involved in all parts of the data cycle! Very impressive 👏🤩
Join the Wanita Data community to get to know more women in data!
There are many visualisation libraries that can be used with Python but the most popular ones are Matplotlib and Seaborn libraries. Let’s look at their characteristics and some example visualisations you can make with them!
🚀🔍 Data managers and data engineers work together to transform raw data into invaluable insights, harmonizing the data journey.
Top 3 data management tasks include:
🔍 Data Collection & Ingestion
🔍 Data Cleaning & Quality Assurance
🔍 Data Security & Privacy
It’s time to shine our brightest Member Spotlight to
@noen_chan
! Nureen is Wanita Data’s Content Strategist Partner.
All the amazing posts you see across our social media platforms are masterminded by Nureen and her team! 👏😌👏
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Kata pepatah "Today is never too late". You may have other skills and experiences yg give you the edge over others in terms of domain knowledge. So additional technical skills will make you very competitive to the right employers 😌
First project walkthrough session with
@wanitadata
done!
I was nervous but the attendees made it so much fun with the reactions and questions. I love 🫶🏼
Thank you for coming!!!
We are back with our
#WanitaData
member spotlight series! This time sharing the 'Why' behind this organization. We hope this inspires you to join us and grow together in this field😊
As beginners delve into data visualization, it's important to understand which visualizations best represent the data at hand. Line charts for trends, pie charts for composition, scatter plots for relationships – selecting the right visuals is key to effective storytelling.
Navigating the data landscape demands more than technical know-how. Top 5 qualities for a stellar DM/DE ⬇️
💡 High attention to detail & logic
💡 Active & Visual communication
💡 Clear & concise documentation
💡 Feedback Integration
💡 Problem solving & troubleshooting skills
Wahh nice ada intermediate level SQL skill! That’s one skill checked for DA jobs.
Tapi like it or not, you’ll need to learn other languages to do more data manipulation. That’s why a lot of them require R or Python bcs you can do a lot more manipulation and easier too with—
Join us on Discord at 8PM MYT this Saturday for an exciting wrap-up session where we'll showcase the amazing data projects we've been working on for the past 8 weeks! 📊✨ See you there!
Discord link in bio.
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@nrlfrhanas
is an actuary in Malaysia. She uses (past) data and financial models to assess the likelihood of future events, which helps orgs make informed decisions about managing and mitigating risks. In this sharing, Farhana explains how she uses data for her work.
Product Managers’ work encompasses many areas - business, management, marketing, finance and of course the technical side. Some described this position as a mini entrepreneur within a company/product owner because essentially, you are responsible for...
So what are our plans with the community members?
Wanita Data aims to provide free resources in our social media, a space for our community members to connect and most importantly find others to collaborate on some hands-on data projects for portfolios or just for fun!
Yes! Both DA/DS need similar skills but the step up between DA and DS is the machine learning part. Starting as a DA will give you leverage on knowing how to do the cleaning/wrangling, in and outs of the data.
If anyone have experience moving from DA ➡️ DS feel free to answer!
This week, our co-founder Suhaila shares her reason for starting WanitaData: to create a community for the ladies who are on their data journey!
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Our member spotlight this week is none other than Alia, Wanita Data’s brilliant Content Strategist Partner! Alia and her team have given their best dedication to bring you valuable content across all our social media platforms. 💯✨
The “Experience” section is the most important section of your resume so don’t be shy.Make sure to include your best work experience/projects that fits the job description! Reply if you have more tips! (We’re looking at you, recruiters 😉)
Our next session is coming up!
Join
@_jamalina
, our WD co-founder, as she shares her journey in pursuing a PhD in the data space.
She graduated with a BSc in Physics, a MSc in Medical Physics and is now pursuing a PhD in Nuclear Eng & Radiological Sc.
Our member spotlight this week shines bright on Wanita Data’s tech wizz, Jamalina! Jamalina has been essential in developing our online community and ensuring meaningful and safe engagement with the WD members. 👏👩💻
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Starting with Excel is already good! Once you’re familiar with Excel, you can start learning other languages like SQL and Python.
But nothing like doing your own data projects to find out what you need to learn. Start practicing! Good luck anon ☺️
Being able to tell a story from the data will help DAs be successful. A DA can clean, merge and manipulate data, but to be able to get some insight on the data is the value of data analysis!
Our next member that we wanted to highlight is Haniza! She is a data lead in the agritech industry and has dabbled with building machine learning models, data management and analytics! 🤩
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Data Visualization is a powerful tool. It helps simplify complex datasets and uncover valuable insights quickly. Whether you're a student, researcher, or business professional, mastering data visualization is essential for effective decision-making.
It is a little tough to land a DA job with no experience so I would suggest learning DA skills and practice them. There are many resources online to get started, and we will open our community soon if you want to find others to do projects together. Good luck anon!
Machine learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are strong tools in data analytics. As such, there is a growing demand for ML/AI Engineers in the field. What exactly does an ML/AI Engineer do? ⤵️
Hi, basic knowledge and experience will be welcomed and will give you an advantage against other candidates. However, for DA especially, your data analysis/transformation skills hold higher importance in excelling in the career and they are pretty much transferrable across—
This is happening in a couple of days! If you’re curious about pivoting to Data Engineering, join us for this session! 🥰
Access this session in Wanita Data’s Discord server ⬇️
Join us as
@noen_chan
, another co-founder of WD, shares her journey in pivoting to a Data Engineering career!
DE within the academia presents unique challenges in terms of processes, the scale & nature of the data involved. See you there!
Access here ⬇️
Now that you are ready to apply for jobs, let’s look at how to create a good resume!
So how should we create this resume? “it depends on the job requirement!”
There are, however, some things you should do and things you should NOT do ⬇️
We will cover this very soon!! And many other data careers comparison. But in short, data analysts do a lot of data gathering, cleaning, analyzing while data scientists do all of the above with a stronger industrial expertise—
Happy International Women's Day!
We hope to inspire more inclusive spaces for women especially in data & tech. Wanita Data will have events this month and throughout the year that will hopefully uplift and motivate more women to join us in this field! 🥰
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✨Product Manager - Is this for you?✨
Surprisingly, I have seen people that do not have any experience in Product Management change careers into this but there are DEFINITELY some skills you need to have, even if you don’t 100% know all the technical material.
1) Data Manipulation - the process of altering, organising and transforming data to make it more useful for analysis. It involves operations like filtering, sorting, merging, and cleaning data. This step is crucial for accurate analysis and interpretation.
Thank you for such an amazing turn out last Sunday for our very first sharing session! We hope you gained valuable insight on
@suhailayunuss
journey in pivoting to a Data Analyst career.
We have more of these sessions coming up so stay tuned!
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We have a more in depth answer to this coming up on our series but we can give a short answer for now.
It highly depends on your resources like money and time. We recommend free or cheaper resources first to see if you mmg nk pursue. Once you’re sure—
What skills do you need to be a Data Scientist?
This varies but some fundamental skills include:
➡️Programming
➡️Understanding of stats/probability
➡️Understanding of ML concepts
➡️Communicate insights to non technical stakeholders
➡️Data exploration, manipulation and analysis
🗓️🔔Friendly reminder that the Wanita Data Discord server will be launched today, December 11 at 8 pm MYT!
Come join us, we have many events planned exclusively for our Discord server community 🤩
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Starting a new job can be exciting and challenging as you navigate new tasks, colleagues and company culture. However, knowing what to expect can help ease the transition. Here are some tips to navigate your first month working in a data-related job.
Congrats on being a DA for this long! As for your question, this depends on how a company define the role/job scope of a DA. It’s not a regulated term so one company’s DA will be different than another company’s DA. Tools is a means to an end so I think as long as it gets the—
Check your inbox and join us for our FREE Discord exclusive events!
We will hear
@suhailayunuss
talk about her journey as a self-learned Data Analyst for our first event.
All sessions will be done on WD Discord server
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See you there! ☺️
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Wanita Data members, check out your inbox!
We have sent you our first newsletter for 2024! There’s a recap of our first townhall in case you missed it and our upcoming events in Discord.
And I’ll be sharing on how to become a data analyst through self-learning next week 😬
Exciting news, Wanita Data community members!
📧 👀Check your inboxes. We have sent you a warm greet and what can you anticipate the next step for our community.
Ironhack has shared the recipe for a successful data analyst resume. Maybe it’s time to revisit those long forgotten resumes? 🫣
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@_jamalina
is currently doing her PhD. Her research focus is in Medical Physics and she works under the Radiation Oncology Physics Dept. She uses ML concepts to develop methods to improve treatment planning in cancer treatments. Here, she shares how she uses data in her work.
“More women participation in any industry leads to better decision-making, improved stakeholder management and strengthened entity resilience”
- Yuki Aizawa, Country Director of Women in Tech (WIT) Global Movement for the Malaysian Chapter
📊 We will have our second Project Walkthrough soon!
Suhaila will show us how to create your first dashboard using Power BI. She will also cover topics such as Intro to Power BI and Power Query which is suitable for beginners.
RSVP here ⬇️⬇️
EDA are basically the steps you take when you first encounter data. These steps can vary depending on the data that you have but it is a necessary step to know what can you do with these data. These steps may include looking at the distribution of the data, outliers, create—
✨ Shining this week’s spotlight over to Ana who is an integral part of our team!
She is your go-to person if you’re looking to do any data project for fun or to develop your data skills.
Do look forward to interacting more with Ana in our Discord channel ☕ 👏
🔎What skills might you need in order to jump into data consultancy? Data consultants work with many types of clients, so the skills depend on the kind of consultancy work.