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  • More Certifications! Databricks Data Analyst, GCP Gen AI Leader

    Juzef the Koala still doesn’t know that he will not be able to exchange newly acquired certificate to bag of eucalyptus

    The beginning of August was relatively productive for me – I decided that PL-300 and GCP ADP certification would be not enough for this summer, and decided to receive a bit more formal badges as a proof, that I know something. I’m still not sure that the fact of receiving of certificate after proctored exam means anything – but anyway, no one can stop me in this journey!

    This time, I focused on two paths – Databricks Data Analyst and GCP Gen AI Leader. Both certifications are not so challenging, but at the same time cover relatively interesting topics, so let me briefly tell about me experience.

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  • Digital Analytics Is Not About Analysis

    Koalas at work. Generated with Copilot
    Koalas at work. Generated with Copilot

    I talk to a lot of analysts every day – product analysts, data engineers, web and digital analysts, CRO managers and growth hackers. When discussing the next analytics project, people are ready to spend days describing the complexity of the implemented data pipelines, the peculiarities of using such wonderful platforms as dbt, Dataform, the endless variety of tools inside GCP, AWS and Azure, and the opportunities they provide them.

    And I really like discussions with that people! What they are actually doing, how do they achieve things they wanted to achieve. Sometimes people from data act like a stealth warriors, but then prepare a comprehensive analytics infrastructure, which then can be used by business for decision making process. Yeah, it is hard to overestimate the value of this activity.

    But in this post, I want to speak not about data pipelines preparation, but about actual role of digital analyst, and maybe about actual opportunities, which currently we have.

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