Resources
What has actually helped me.
Only things I've used myself. No affiliate links, no hype — just what kept me learning.
Courses I'm learning from
Coursera — Data Analytics
The structured backbone of my learning. Less about the certificate, more about learning how analysts actually think.
Deloitte Data Analytics Job Simulation
The closest thing to real analyst work I've done outside the internship.
Mastercard learning programmes
Short, focused milestones that kept momentum on harder weeks.
SQL
Practicing queries daily
Small, dumb questions before clever ones. Joins, aggregations, then window functions.
Reading other people's queries
The fastest way to discover that there is always a cleaner way.
Power BI
DAX, one measure at a time
I learned more from getting one measure right than from finishing a tutorial.
Rebuilding reports from scratch
Take a dashboard you admire. Try to recreate it. Notice what breaks.
Excel
Pivot tables, lookups, clean data
Less glamorous than SQL, but the muscle every analyst still uses.
Communities that have helped
LinkedIn data community
Following analysts who share their thinking openly has shaped mine.
Conversations with my brother-in-law
The original community of one. The reason this whole journey started.
This list will grow as the journey continues.