So it looks like this is for real – everyone is home. This means making a list to stay on focus.
- Confirm my current projects are strong – One has already gone into a ghost status so I’m not sure how they are going to move ahead considering that they are a small, family real estate group.
- Move ahead – There’s no vacation for someone in spot that can sit back and roll with it, so I still need to find new projects and maybe focus more on those things that I was going to look into — like training.
- Training — Look at that. Thanks to a special deal through Coursea, I am looking at pursuing my IBM Data Science Professional Certificate. After quickly completing the first course and looking ahead at the syllabus, I feel good about the intro courses around the concepts and applications for Data Science and AI, so that should be fine. It’s the latter courses in Python that might take extra time. I’ve coded a bunch in PHP, so it won’t be foreign to learn to code, but I’ll need focus.
Why do this? First, I have no intention of being a data scientist. Those people are wicked smahhht. However, I have frequently found myself in the room with the Data and Engineering teams, and I want to be better at talking the details that are there in every project.
I’ve surprised people — especially when they only thought of me as a marketing person — by pulling some SQL to test new segments, but I’m only proficient up to a point, and I would like to take the next step.