Ready Set Do w/ Naman Pandey

In this episode, featured not-expert is Sohan Sethi. Sohan is a data visualization aficionado and loves effective story-telling using data. He’s also been Top Data Visualization Voice on LinkedIn on numerous occasions, spreading the knowledge and empowering others to excel at business analytics and data visualization.

We discuss:

1. General tips for job-seekers seeking employment as business analysts

2. What makes a good dashboard and how to effectively perform story-telling using data

3. Sohan’s 3-step framework anyone can use to build effective dashboards

4. How to become Top Voice on LinkedIn (and why it matters!)

5. Deep-dive on the role of Copilot and Generative AI as a whole on data visualizations 

6. An impromptu turn-the-tables moment with Sohan becoming host on my own show!

This discussion is for anyone who is a current or aspiring business analyst, or anyone who wants to learn story-telling using data. The theme of the show being “Learn from not-experts”, this episode is only supposed to get you thinking about what exactly story-telling using data means and how to be a good business analyst.

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Resources:

Sohan - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sohansethi/

Datacamp - datacamp.com

Timestamps: 

(00:00) Intro + Background 

(03:13) Tips for job applicants on landing Business Analyst roles 

(05:51) Benefits of tracking applications? 

(07:53) Why Business Analytics in the US? 

(09:48) Work experience in the US thus far 

(12:16) Key soft skills for Business Analysts working on Data Visualizations 

(18:34) What makes a good dashboard? 

(24:28) Is pie chart criticism legit? 

(26:04) Some underrated and underutilized data visuals? 

(27:56) How to become Top Voice on LinkedIn? 

(32:35) Should job-seekers start learning Copilot/Generative AI for Data Viz? 

(35:53) Application of PowerBI Copilot and the future 

(39:58) Sohan asks a Question to Naman! 

(46:16) Outro + Gratitude