First of all, cauliflower. I love your content and how you inspire a lot of young people (just like me) to schedule their data analysis learning process. Keep it up!
Enjoyed hearing your perspective on AI and Data Analytics, completely agree with your assessment. P.S. I prefer 🥦 over cauliflower... something about that white veggie gets me! hahaha
"Our task is not the same all the day" -- > more or less, It depends of the personality of each people and the tasks of the company. If you're not creative, you can do the same all the day and It could be borring. The exciting and difficult thing is to be creative and have new ideas to help the business (and of course using analytics skills)
I am agree with you, especially with AI is grown so rapidly, and yeah you don't need to worry with automation because of we have the context about data, while automation maybe can do very quick, but with context we have as a natural side of human, I think automation will help us a lot, and can be focusing more on another thing.
I agree. I think the automation will still need human interference so to speak. We will still have to learn some new software that works with that automation.
Nice talk, Alex! Dank u wel! What kind of healthcare data have you been dealing with, may I ask? I'm interested in a few kinds of health data and wondering where they are.
@@AlexTheAnalyst Sounds cool! Are these data coming from hospitals/clinical research groups? In my experience such data are very sensitive, so in order to get access one has to sign a contract already. But how to increase the chance of having a contract is kinda a mystery. Did you do related projects/intern in school?
Hahah i love how natural your uncut show with you pausing/forgetting what you're talking about to picking up your cute dog - makes you more human and relatable = ] If i was to be a data analyst i want to work with hospital and doctors too , because i am passionate about helping ppl with their health, especially making an impact on the healthcare/hospital industry. Is the job title in that industry, called healthcare analyst??
So glad to hear it! And yes, there are lots of jobs like that in healthcare, but you can also look for data analyst or business analysts within healthcare companies that may do the same thing. I'd try all of those.
I'm thinking about my job and how complex the business is and I'm not sure AI can fully replace what I do. Our business has 1000s of tables with complex relationships that are very complex in nature. Our orders table, for example, has billions of records with information on taxing, discounts, products etc... that all relate to other objects. I'm starting to think about all the views and tables we create for reporting needs and all the complex logic and SQL that goes into creating these views and I just don't see how that can be fully automated without a human being involved. Can the AI and human work together. Sure, but the AI on its own doesn't sound like it can work. After the data has been massaged and transformed there are so many ways to interpret the results that you couldn't possibly rely on just AI for that without human intervention. I think the two will ultimately work together and nobody has to freak out about AI replacing any jobs.
I think people also confuse “Automation” with “Artificial General intelligence” which from my understanding are two very different things. At a certain point if a large majority of jobs get “automated” and it puts a large amount of people out of work then who will be left to actually buy stuff? I highly doubt all those articles about “universal income” Governments already tax the hell out of us. I can’t see them just giving a large amount of the population a decent amount of money every month.
This is why now I switched focusing on data analytics from data science because if all you do is feature engineer & making models, AutoML is already in the market, while data analytics focused on data inferential w/ domain synergy. Oh and also Julia > R + Python
You and cauliflower are teaching me English vocab for vegetables quite well! I had no idea what that is despite really liking it xD Btw, there's one other and very big thing that people often forget to take into account. Machines glitch. They glitch a lot. No matter how good your IT department is. For example, where I currently work as an intern we have a lot of standartised reports automated. Analysts basically just need to prepare the data to fit a specific template, and then the robots can prepare all the reports for us. However, with every new update to the report templates and/or the robots there are inevitably a bunch of new bugs, including robots preparing certain reports incorrectly or refusing to prepare them at all. And sure, sooner or later the tech guys are going to fix it (until something new breaks, at least), but when push comes to shove and our deadlines are close (which they constantly are), it is up to the analysts to actually do everything by hand until the robots get fixed. And that's why, despite all the automatisation, we're still needed at the job.
That's why there are engineers and technicians in place to fix those machines, but let's be honest, engineering isn't welcoming everyone into its yard. 😅😅😅
Ten years really isn't a very long time. And of course, as I said before, there will be more people with these skills than ever. I feel like I should have gone to school to become a nurse or something, did that for a few years, and then the career options would have been better. The domain knowledge seems like the key.
I agree, but I think 10 years away we will just start to see apparent signs of automation. I think it’s many many more years out before the possibility of full automation - 50+ or so. And yes, domain knowledge is important. You can also get that from being a data analyst in an industry for many years too 👍
Grass is always greener on the other side. Are you sure you'd be better off being a nurse? Because i've seen many nurses rant about their jobs and looking for a way out. 😅
PAM?!? No!!!! Research the harmful effects of bad oils, its like hands down one of the worst things you can eat. Avocado Oil, Coconut Oil, grass fed butter...all far better options. Thanks for all the info you share, really learning a lot. And I love cauliflower :)
Hi Alex, great video! I wouldn’t call you harsh or critical on LinkedIn. I think you just found a funny way of expressing yourself there. It’s all in good fun. I did enjoy watching your R vs. Python thing go viral. I noticed you referenced it in your Google Data Analytics video. It gave me a good laugh. Did you study much Machine Learning? Do you enjoy working with it? Do you see yourself trying it out more in the future?
I appreciate that! I actually have done a ton of stuff on ML and have done a lot of Kaggle competitions. After a while I realized it's not really for me - not something I particularly enjoyed. So I don't think that I will go that way with my career in the future.
@@AlexTheAnalyst I asked this question on your new ML video posted today, but I’ll ask here too. What about ML didn’t you like? Or rather, what about Data Analytics do you like better? (I’m trying to decide for myself which path to choose.)
Alex you are so supportive, I have one doubt which is not clear , learning any language is OK, how to improve Our application of that language and where to learn the methodologies that is used in industry and way to get industry ready
Alex in a couple of months I will start my masters in Data Science alongside my job. This is a very important topic for me as I'm 21 xD Thanks for sharing your thoughs
Hi there. I'd rather do Data Science certifications online for much cheaper prices. If you invest your money into a master degree in data science now and later find out it can be automated very soon, what's the loss you have to incur? Will you be able to accept it then?
re RUclips/LinkedIn: It's way more fun to defy expectations and norms. Also, it's not all that weird to think about the end of the "reign" of humans because our existence on earth's timeline is incredibly insignificant as it is. It's weirder to me to think this will be norm forever. Just my own tangent I guess hah. (... Cauliflower.)
I think we are underestimating ourselves just because we believe the fact that calculators can do better difficult math than human ... Even people know this fact ... But human emotions , sentiments , though processes can never be replaced and this job indeed require that ... Improving soft skills will be key in future
@K D , I don't know how efficiently AI can replace jobs. So far, AI needs to be guided by someone. In that context, being a Data Analyst is not Power BI, it's not Python or R or SQL or Excel. Being a DA is understanding what to do with Data to help a business or a person. Yes, AI will be able to do that someday. But right now, it's guided.
@@Pranaysood1 Half of all work tasks will be handled by machines by 2025. That number will only increase. The last jobs to be automated will likely be plumbers and mechanics.
So a question about the Automation of Data Analysis (Edit: And about the future of Data Analysis as a career in general): Like I commented under another of your videos, I'm trying to find a different career path to get out of being an electrician. Data Analysis really seem like it might be what I will be going for in the very near future. My question now is, considering the maybe/maybe not automation of the job in the future do you think it would be worth it to get into the industry? And do you think that in the future with automation ramping up the will be as good money wise as it is right now? I'm currently 24 and depending on how much money I make I plan to work until I am at least 60. The thing is that I don't know that much about the industry and want to prevent myself from entering a possible career path that wouldn't last me as long. Granted, if I work as a Data Analyst for such a long time I might find opportunities to branch of into a different direction, but right now I'm solely looking at the case of me doing the same job / going the same direction until I retire. Thank you for your videos. I'm quite new to the channel and the world of data analysis, but you have already given me quite a bit of insight.
@@had3079 mostly because my apprenticeship destroyed every ounce of interest that I had. Now that I've left my old job, I'm slowly growing back that interest, but I'll probably never work in the field again.
BTW, it's your fault. English has limited capacity of describing cooking. When I try to describe how a dish is done, it's always Chinese/French vocabularies that come up my mind.
Haha I'm good man! Keeping very busy, but I like it that way :) And I don't know much about them - do you have a link for those? Maybe I've seen them before, but just not remembering.
Please tell me which DA certifications is best for financial analyst roles,I'm doing an MBA international business and can only take out time for one score. Please refer to me which course has the highest recognition and best knowledge base
So many people from the Google Data Analysis Certificate found out about it from you, and they're not all from the States.
Keep up the good work.
Super cool to hear!
As long as excel continues to turn my dates to numbers...I don't think we need to worry about automating analytics...data engineering or software
First of all, cauliflower.
I love your content and how you inspire a lot of young people (just like me) to schedule their data analysis learning process.
Keep it up!
Hey, man. Thank you so much for your channel; all the time, the thoughtfulness- it’s been very meaningful.
Enjoyed hearing your perspective on AI and Data Analytics, completely agree with your assessment.
P.S. I prefer 🥦 over cauliflower... something about that white veggie gets me! hahaha
Haha I respect that :D
"Our task is not the same all the day" -- > more or less, It depends of the personality of each people and the tasks of the company. If you're not creative, you can do the same all the day and It could be borring. The exciting and difficult thing is to be creative and have new ideas to help the business (and of course using analytics skills)
I never skip a single ads to appreciate this man
😁
I am agree with you, especially with AI is grown so rapidly, and yeah you don't need to worry with automation because of we have the context about data, while automation maybe can do very quick, but with context we have as a natural side of human, I think automation will help us a lot, and can be focusing more on another thing.
I really think so! But only time will tell
I agree. I think the automation will still need human interference so to speak. We will still have to learn some new software that works with that automation.
Can you please make a video regarding the career path of data analyst as they gain experience
been waiting for this ,thanks Alex👍👍
Nice talk, Alex! Dank u wel! What kind of healthcare data have you been dealing with, may I ask? I'm interested in a few kinds of health data and wondering where they are.
Thanks Ariel! I work a wide variety of healthcare data. I work a lot with claims, cancer research data, PHI, diagnosis, ICD10, Snomed codes, etc.
@@AlexTheAnalyst Sounds cool! Are these data coming from hospitals/clinical research groups? In my experience such data are very sensitive, so in order to get access one has to sign a contract already. But how to increase the chance of having a contract is kinda a mystery. Did you do related projects/intern in school?
Hahah i love how natural your uncut show with you pausing/forgetting what you're talking about to picking up your cute dog - makes you more human and relatable = ]
If i was to be a data analyst i want to work with hospital and doctors too , because i am passionate about helping ppl with their health, especially making an impact on the healthcare/hospital industry. Is the job title in that industry, called healthcare analyst??
So glad to hear it! And yes, there are lots of jobs like that in healthcare, but you can also look for data analyst or business analysts within healthcare companies that may do the same thing. I'd try all of those.
Sounds great Alex! Appreciate the tip 🙏
I'm thinking about my job and how complex the business is and I'm not sure AI can fully replace what I do. Our business has 1000s of tables with complex relationships that are very complex in nature. Our orders table, for example, has billions of records with information on taxing, discounts, products etc... that all relate to other objects. I'm starting to think about all the views and tables we create for reporting needs and all the complex logic and SQL that goes into creating these views and I just don't see how that can be fully automated without a human being involved. Can the AI and human work together. Sure, but the AI on its own doesn't sound like it can work. After the data has been massaged and transformed there are so many ways to interpret the results that you couldn't possibly rely on just AI for that without human intervention. I think the two will ultimately work together and nobody has to freak out about AI replacing any jobs.
Yeah, we have ChatGPT now. Try it!
Alex, could you give make a video of an introduction to azure?
That's a great idea - I think I will!
Great video thank you for the insight.
Thanks for watching!
I think people also confuse “Automation” with “Artificial General intelligence” which from my understanding are two very different things.
At a certain point if a large majority of jobs get “automated” and it puts a large amount of people out of work then who will be left to actually buy stuff?
I highly doubt all those articles about “universal income” Governments already tax the hell out of us. I can’t see them just giving a large amount of the population a decent amount of money every month.
So how do Data Analyst stay on top of the automation in the analytics fields. What can we learn of top of what we know to keep up?
I would focus on domain knowledge. Learning the industry more in depth will always keep you more employable than learning another skill.
Do you have any insight on the difference between a Data Analyst in the Healthcare field vs. a Health informatician?
Cauliflower ! Good luck with your garden this year
Thanks! Already starting to see things grow which is super fun :)
now you need to try to cook Spanish Omelette. With potato ! yummy yummy !
This is why now I switched focusing on data analytics from data science because if all you do is feature engineer & making models, AutoML is already in the market, while data analytics focused on data inferential w/ domain synergy.
Oh and also Julia > R + Python
You and cauliflower are teaching me English vocab for vegetables quite well! I had no idea what that is despite really liking it xD
Btw, there's one other and very big thing that people often forget to take into account. Machines glitch. They glitch a lot. No matter how good your IT department is.
For example, where I currently work as an intern we have a lot of standartised reports automated. Analysts basically just need to prepare the data to fit a specific template, and then the robots can prepare all the reports for us. However, with every new update to the report templates and/or the robots there are inevitably a bunch of new bugs, including robots preparing certain reports incorrectly or refusing to prepare them at all. And sure, sooner or later the tech guys are going to fix it (until something new breaks, at least), but when push comes to shove and our deadlines are close (which they constantly are), it is up to the analysts to actually do everything by hand until the robots get fixed. And that's why, despite all the automatisation, we're still needed at the job.
That's why there are engineers and technicians in place to fix those machines, but let's be honest, engineering isn't welcoming everyone into its yard. 😅😅😅
Can you make some time stamps sir.... so that we can move to that part directly :-)
Done!
Thanks for providing the time stamps... 😊😊
@@AlexTheAnalyst love the "Rambling" chapter. My favorite!
I had one question Alex, " What is metrics in data?"
I am not understanding this, can you please explain it if possible with a small example.
Ten years really isn't a very long time. And of course, as I said before, there will be more people with these skills than ever. I feel like I should have gone to school to become a nurse or something, did that for a few years, and then the career options would have been better. The domain knowledge seems like the key.
I agree, but I think 10 years away we will just start to see apparent signs of automation. I think it’s many many more years out before the possibility of full automation - 50+ or so. And yes, domain knowledge is important. You can also get that from being a data analyst in an industry for many years too 👍
@@AlexTheAnalyst You seem to think a lot but do not state any facts along the way. Good luck looking for a new job.
Grass is always greener on the other side. Are you sure you'd be better off being a nurse? Because i've seen many nurses rant about their jobs and looking for a way out. 😅
PAM?!? No!!!! Research the harmful effects of bad oils, its like hands down one of the worst things you can eat. Avocado Oil, Coconut Oil, grass fed butter...all far better options. Thanks for all the info you share, really learning a lot. And I love cauliflower :)
Good to know! I think my wife buys avocado oil - I just haven't been using it lol
Hi Alex, great video! I wouldn’t call you harsh or critical on LinkedIn. I think you just found a funny way of expressing yourself there. It’s all in good fun. I did enjoy watching your R vs. Python thing go viral. I noticed you referenced it in your Google Data Analytics video. It gave me a good laugh.
Did you study much Machine Learning? Do you enjoy working with it? Do you see yourself trying it out more in the future?
I appreciate that! I actually have done a ton of stuff on ML and have done a lot of Kaggle competitions. After a while I realized it's not really for me - not something I particularly enjoyed. So I don't think that I will go that way with my career in the future.
@@AlexTheAnalyst I asked this question on your new ML video posted today, but I’ll ask here too. What about ML didn’t you like? Or rather, what about Data Analytics do you like better?
(I’m trying to decide for myself which path to choose.)
"...I think the end of the world is... somewhat important."
😂
XD
Alex you are so supportive, I have one doubt which is not clear , learning any language is OK, how to improve Our application of that language and where to learn the methodologies that is used in industry and way to get industry ready
According to you...what would be the education / background people in charge of the automation would have ? Thanks. Great video as usual.
Most likely Computer Science backgrounds who know AI and automation
@@AlexTheAnalyst noted ...thanks !
for context and logical deductions... what about AI?
Awwwwhh itss a pupppyyyy!! 💓
Alex in a couple of months I will start my masters in Data Science alongside my job. This is a very important topic for me as I'm 21 xD
Thanks for sharing your thoughs
Hi there. I'd rather do Data Science certifications online for much cheaper prices. If you invest your money into a master degree in data science now and later find out it can be automated very soon, what's the loss you have to incur? Will you be able to accept it then?
re RUclips/LinkedIn: It's way more fun to defy expectations and norms.
Also, it's not all that weird to think about the end of the "reign" of humans because our existence on earth's timeline is incredibly insignificant as it is. It's weirder to me to think this will be norm forever. Just my own tangent I guess hah.
(... Cauliflower.)
Interesting thought right there... We are just progressing so fast you never know what's going to happen in the next 10 years
I watch your videos on my cell. When I first see the Vegetable based T-shirt, I thought it's a Pickle Rick hehe
Cauliflower!!
Haha! It can mean that too :D
I think we are underestimating ourselves just because we believe the fact that calculators can do better difficult math than human ... Even people know this fact ... But human emotions , sentiments , though processes can never be replaced and this job indeed require that ... Improving soft skills will be key in future
4:15 goooooooooood boy
Hi Alex, do you think we should consider learning tools like STAT and SPSS?
Yeah I think they're useful - not something I would start out learning, but something to pick up if you're interested in it.
Definitely. If AI can replace data analytics in the future, what's the point to learn R or Python now. 😅😅😅 I'd rather learn the tools 😊😊😊
@K D , I don't know how efficiently AI can replace jobs. So far, AI needs to be guided by someone. In that context, being a Data Analyst is not Power BI, it's not Python or R or SQL or Excel. Being a DA is understanding what to do with Data to help a business or a person. Yes, AI will be able to do that someday. But right now, it's guided.
Hi Alex,
How do i connect with you on LinkedIn please?
You can either search for my name or click on the link on my YT homepage on my banner.
I’ve never yet come across a profession where the practitioners think their job can automated.
Until it happens.
Exactly this guy is in for a shock.
@@Pranaysood1 Half of all work tasks will be handled by machines by 2025. That number will only increase. The last jobs to be automated will likely be plumbers and mechanics.
@@Pranaysood1 you can focus more on domain knowledge and strategy, and Automation will assist you with your role 😅
can we automate the Q/A session for a specific day :D i'm always missing it
I actually like eating cauliflower, and thank you for speaking to us the audience.
I do love me some cauliflower. As a keto man, something has to replace potatoes.
Haha mashed cauliflower is delicious too! Good as pizza crust as well 👍
So a question about the Automation of Data Analysis (Edit: And about the future of Data Analysis as a career in general):
Like I commented under another of your videos, I'm trying to find a different career path to get out of being an electrician. Data Analysis really seem like it might be what I will be going for in the very near future. My question now is, considering the maybe/maybe not automation of the job in the future do you think it would be worth it to get into the industry? And do you think that in the future with automation ramping up the will be as good money wise as it is right now? I'm currently 24 and depending on how much money I make I plan to work until I am at least 60. The thing is that I don't know that much about the industry and want to prevent myself from entering a possible career path that wouldn't last me as long. Granted, if I work as a Data Analyst for such a long time I might find opportunities to branch of into a different direction, but right now I'm solely looking at the case of me doing the same job / going the same direction until I retire.
Thank you for your videos. I'm quite new to the channel and the world of data analysis, but you have already given me quite a bit of insight.
Why ur switching from electric to data analytics?
@@had3079 mostly because my apprenticeship destroyed every ounce of interest that I had. Now that I've left my old job, I'm slowly growing back that interest, but I'll probably never work in the field again.
BTW, it's your fault. English has limited capacity of describing cooking. When I try to describe how a dish is done, it's always Chinese/French vocabularies that come up my mind.
Is AWS required for Data analyst job?
Nope, good to know though
When he said 'I think I stopped watching. I will be laughing in 10 years when all these clowns are out of work!
I know, right?
How are you Alex? What do you think about google cloud badges? And if i didn't comment lately does not mean i didn't watch your videos. cauliflower
Haha I'm good man! Keeping very busy, but I like it that way :) And I don't know much about them - do you have a link for those? Maybe I've seen them before, but just not remembering.
I love cauliflower pizza or pasta!
Max 😍
cauliflower !
this just made me want an omelette haha
Please tell me which DA certifications is best for financial analyst roles,I'm doing an MBA international business and can only take out time for one score.
Please refer to me which course has the highest recognition and best knowledge base
CFA?
Alex how are you doing today?
Doing really well! Weather is better - kids are doing well - no one is sick - can't really complain! Thanks for asking my friend :D
I thought Max was your child when you called him...Great looking buddy you got there!
Haha Max is my 4th child - definitely the least favorite compared to the human children
cauliflower
Sir How about holding a MSc in data analytics and launching my career in the field of data analytics?
Which breed is Max?😍
He is a Doxiepoo - half dachshund and half poodle :)
@@AlexTheAnalyst thanks! He's such a good boy.
Hello Alex, is it true that we need to learn DAX for Power BI ??? How different is it with R or Python? Is DAX a must learn??
Cauliflower >:P
Cauliflower
First one...😄😃
Hello Alex,
You told you will review my resume. Can you please do it soon??
🥦