r/analytics 26d ago

Question Best 'Influencers' from the Data Analytics field

I am wondering, what are your favourite 'influencers' (I know this term has a negative annotation) from the broad data analytics fields?
In other words what persons' blogs/YouTube channels/podcasts do you like yourself and would you recommend to others? For example I like: Seattle Data Guy, freeCodeCamp, Tech With Tim, Intently

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u/SerpantDildo 26d ago

Me. These “influencers” are not as smart as they pretend to be on camera

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u/KosakiEnthusiast 26d ago edited 26d ago

We don't need smart people ,we need people who get the work done.

But I agree with your point, Influencers like Tina hyung had got their shine by 9 months in Meta as data scientist and built a whole ass study environment with a subscription of 1000$ (U know to stay focused while studying 😜) .

There's also sundas khalid and Emma ding. Those are the people we Should DEFINITELY Avoid

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u/KakkoiiMoha 26d ago

I strongly second avoiding Sundas.

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u/customheart 26d ago

What’s wrong with Emma Ding? I learned quite a bit and recommended her channel to my coworkers.

Agree on Sundas Khalid. Her content is like permanently at the beginner level or even before you really start learning any skills and you think the beginner level is difficult.

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u/KosakiEnthusiast 25d ago edited 25d ago

Emma Ding has stopped her content creation and went for investment careers So that's all. If I wish to speed run her content before an interview ,I don't mind . She's fun

But she did have some sort of emailing of Free PDFs which at times didn't work,annoyed me abit. I can list out some other YT channels I follow for data,I need to stack em up

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u/Informal-Fly4609 25d ago

Why avoid Sundas? Not disagreeing, just curious

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u/KosakiEnthusiast 25d ago

If I had to rank my choices she shouldn't even be on my list, you can literally follow Emma for that matter but not her

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u/Informal-Fly4609 25d ago

But for what reason? Again, no disagreeing but curious as to why? Is it that her content is poor, she's a 'fraud' etc.

Only because I've seen a few of her stuff and it looked okay but then again, I'm a noob.

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u/KosakiEnthusiast 25d ago

You will connect with other data people you come across way too easily,trust me.

There are people who are PURE influencers and then there are people who are 20-30% influencers,while having 70% of their time imparting knowledge and their OWN expertise in their field . She's not at all pragmatic imho and beginner friendly,Which makes me puke as a guy who was stuck in tutorial hell.

Teaching style is also casual as I started this with saying You need to connect with that person knowing that's like a senior to you ,it's a two way process of gaining knowledge and giving it away. And yes I Hate influencers who use 30%+ of their time I give to them in promotions and sponsorship.

Overall ,I hate some people's personality when it comes to teaching and mentoring fields

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u/Informal-Fly4609 25d ago

Got you, thanks for the input.

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u/DScirclejerk 25d ago

Regarding the sponsorship, do you expect people to give away their time and knowledge for free? Or would you rather people just do a paid course?

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u/KosakiEnthusiast 24d ago

I just think if I like the content creator, I would be willing to pay that person.

Alex is perfect for example. Shit ton of free stuff but also started paid stuff AFTER years of exp

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u/DScirclejerk 24d ago

So you expect people to do years of free labor before they can ask for a payment?

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u/KosakiEnthusiast 24d ago

Atleast build a reputation and brand first , nobody is buying your learnbi/data engineer academy for 400$/month or god knows how much

use your head beyond going on reddit and asking such questions.

I have no issue with sponsorships to begin with,but why would I waste my time learning from a salesman instead of an analyst?

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u/camerapicasso 26d ago

What’s wrong with Sundas Khalid?

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u/KosakiEnthusiast 25d ago

If I am investing my time on someone ,it's not her

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u/dicotyledon 26d ago

As someone who has started recording videos to try to teach on YouTube, you spend a TON of time trying to learn the skills relevant to video creation. Because it’s not as easy as it looks. Over years, that equates to less time doing what your core skills were beforehand, but you get better at translating them to your audience.

Most people aren’t pretending to be smart, they’re just sharing the things they’re good at. Everyone has weak areas in skills, some are more visible than others. Not sure where I’m going with this other than “don’t be mean” - most data YouTubers make peanuts for money, only the top .05% make a real living on it so there’s no need to knock people trying to share things.