In this article I’ll share some of my best practices for creating online courses. This time I’ll focus on the product development side. Of course if you want to sell courses, you’ll need to learn marketing as well, but I’ll just cover development here. — Disclaimer: I’m not an “online course guru.” (Who is, anyway?) I can’t tell you everything you wanted to know about all the online courses. My experiences are unique to my field and my niche. I can only share what I learned and I acknowledge that there are many ways to…

The house always wins. We all know this phrase. But this is more than a phrase. This is a simple, mathematically proven fact. And you’ll only have to know three statistical concepts to see why the house always wins. — You are at the casino. The roulette wheel is spinning and the ball is bouncing. Bounce, bounce, bounce, you smile: “it’s red!” And then it bounces one more. No, it’s black! You lose everything again and go home with empty pockets.

I’ve worked with over 500 aspiring data scientists in the last few years and I’ve seen some typical mindset mistakes they tend to make. In this article, I’d like to share five of these. — Getting stuck due to syntax issues To do data science, sooner or later, you’ll need to learn how to code (mostly in Python, SQL, bash and/or R). And for everyone who’s new to coding, by far the biggest struggle is syntax.

Before I created my first-ever online video course, I spent hours and days researching the different cameras, microphones and software I needed. Eventually, I invested in my “starter kit,” which worked fine. But as I became more and more experienced with the course creation process, I realized that my initial…

I was raised as a child who was expected to go to university. “If you don’t get a college degree, you won’t get a job.” I’m not sure anyone ever told me this exact sentence, but I remember that when I was 18 years old, I took this as a…

I started data36.com 18 months ago. It’s a tech blog where I write entry level data science and analytics articles and tutorials for beginners. In February 2018 I reached a long-awaited milestone: 20,000 monthly visitors. When I started my blog, I decided to be fully transparent with everything about it. This blog post is one of my first steps towards that. I’ll share every detail that I find interesting:

Statistics is difficult. Of course it is, as it’s most of the actual science part in data science. But that doesn’t mean that you couldn’t learn it by yourself if you are smart and determined enough. In this article, I am going to list 6 books that I recommend starting…

Using various qualitative and quantitative methods to improve results is important anytime I do research. Previously I’ve described how I used the Online Research Framework to make improvements to websites and online products. Today I’ll show you a case study for a more particular situation: when you would like to…

I moved to Sweden 6 months ago with my girlfriend. It is a great country for expats like us, because almost everyone speaks really good English here. Even so, we would like to learn some Swedish, just to understand a bit more in daily conversation and about Swedish culture. For…