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Best Free Training Resources For Learning Python And R For Data Analysis

posted on , by Michael Olafusi

image: kdnuggets.com I have trained a class of people who paid hundreds of thousands of Naira to learn data analysis with R and I have equally paid a lot in books and online training to horn my R skills. For Python, I haven't yet trained a class on it but I have paid a lot too on books and courses to learn it. Hands down, the best training resource is hands-on projects. After that, ...

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Done With My Excel Web App And Submitted To Microsoft Store For Approval

posted on , by Michael Olafusi

Last week I completed the version 1.0.0 of my Nigerian Tool Excel web app. I submitted it to the Microsoft Office App store. But today I got a feedback that they want me to implement some changes before they can approve the app. I have made the changes requested and am hoping it would be approved soon. Then I can share it with you all and you can use it for free (for ...

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Tackling My Biggest Challenges

posted on , by Michael Olafusi

image: medcitynews.com I have my strengths and I have my weaknesses. Just like every other person. I believe that we all have equal potentials, that you and I have as much potential as the most successful people we admire and that the fellow we look down on has no less potential. Then why are some people living a better life than others? Why are some people more successful than others? ...

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Why Too Many People Don't Go From Thoughts To Action

posted on , by Michael Olafusi

There are two broad categories of people I meet -- those who have thought out two seasons each with 40 episodes of what they are going to do, and those who are too busy to think. Which one are you? The thinkers are busy doing what is not along their line of interest, so they try to compensate for that by building castles in the air about what they really have interest in. But the other ...

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Now Seriously Learning Python For Excel, Using Xlwings

posted on , by Michael Olafusi

These last two days I have driven myself to complete a Python Data Analysis course I bought over a year ago, and the main motivation is that I am now seriously trying to use xlwings' Python for Excel. It allows me to use Python in Excel -- to create new formulas and to embed in my Excel VBA. You should take a look at the teaser videos on their homepage, https://www.xlwings.org/,and ...

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Recorded Video & Slides Of The Webinar On Practical Tips To Becoming A Business Data Analysis Professional

posted on , by Michael Olafusi

On Tuesday, 21 February 2017, we held a webinar on practical tips to becoming a business data analysis professional. It was a very interactive webinar and I tried to cover all the fundamentals that anyone interested in a profitable venture into the data analysis field in Nigeria should be aware of, even up to the amount of money you can make from it part-time and full-time. You can watch ...

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My Answer To An Excel VBA vs Python Question

posted on , by Michael Olafusi

image: xlwings.org Two weeks ago, someone in our MVP community asked a question about Excel VBA vs Python. He is an expert Excel VBA programmer and uses it a lot at his job but now he is considering going fully into the data science field and was considering picking up Python. He wanted to know if anyone has gone a similar route, from Excel VBA to Python, and what the person's experience ...

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Where's Our President?

posted on , by Michael Olafusi

image: venturesafrica.com It's not his long vacation that is worrying but the secrecy around it and the non-definitive return date that makes it all worrying for the common concerned Nigerian like me. I would be very happy to see the president back hale and hearty, anything less does no one no good. So I am not in the camp of those who wish him ill health or hoping he doesn't come back. ...

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Join World Skills' BeChangeMaker Online Social Entrepreneurial Skill Training Projects And Get Seed Funding

posted on , by Michael Olafusi

You can read more and join at https://www.worldskills.org/what/career/bechangemaker/ I got the news from HP LIFE and below is a copy of the details. A special opportunity for HP LIFE users - Join the BeChangeMaker social entrepreneurship initiative. The deadline for application is March 9, 2017. ...

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Never Let Knowledge of Your Ignorance Hold You Back

posted on , by Michael Olafusi

image: time.com Sorry I had to use the picture of Donald Trump. I can't say it is the most relevant picture to use but it was the best I saw while searching google for "ignorance hold you back". And it looks lovely. Today, I completed my first professional financial article for post consideration on a global finance blog. And this post is to encourage you that if I, without any finance ...

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Things Might Get Worse For Our Stock Market

posted on , by Michael Olafusi

I have been reading up on the frontier markets, which Nigeria falls under, and came across a worrying fact. There are three categories of equity market to the global investor: Developed Markets, Emerging Markets and Frontier Markets. According to S&P Dow Jones Indexes Country Classification System: Developed markets are the most accessible to and supportive of foreign investors. Generally, there is high degree of consistency across these markets. Emerging markets generally have less ...

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Journeying Into Financial Journalism

posted on , by Michael Olafusi

I have been given opportunities to write for two big international finance blogs.They are both non-paying gigs but I see them as the start of something big for me. I have been reading the materials from my last year six months Bloomberg Media Initiative Africa Financial Journalism course.  image: amazon.com I plan to focus on frontier markets using my practical experience ...

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What I Really Want To Be In Life

posted on , by Michael Olafusi

I want to be a writer. A professional writer. To write a lot. Write novels, write articles for online and print magazines, and write all the stories I have lived with since I was born. My original affection for writing started from my primary school days. I read too many books as I wasn't allowed to have the play-filled childhood most children have. Then naturally I began to have my ...

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Join Nigerian Excel Users Meetup Group

posted on , by Michael Olafusi

Microsoft Nigeria has been very nice and agreed to provide meeting space to Nigerian Excel Users community. And we are not going to let that offer go to waste. If you are an Excel lover, then you should join the bubbling community of other Excel Power Users in Nigeria at https://www.meetup.com/Nigerian-Excel-Users-Meetup/  We are planning our second ever meetup and the first ...

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When 24 Hours A Day Is No Longer Enough

posted on , by Michael Olafusi

image: factoflife.net It's worrying how fast the day zooms. I am not an early riser. So on most normal days, I get up at 9:00am. And from that moment till past 12 midnight I am working and feeling like why is the time speeding too fast. I now feel that 24 hours a day is no longer enough. Not because I have deadlines chasing me nor because I have a daily todo list. I don't have a daily ...

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To Join Institute of Directors or NSE or NCS?

posted on , by Michael Olafusi

I started today by working a little on my Excel add-in application. I am already done with creating APIs for the FX rates and Stock Indices. Then I left home for a couple of strategic places. I started with the Tax office to file in our January VAT. Then I went to Federal Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRC). I wanted to find out from a staff, rather than limit myself to what ...

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To Excel In Business You Need To Forget How Far You Have Come

posted on , by Michael Olafusi

image: atlantablackstar.com How many of you measure your success by how far you've come since your kindergarten days? Do you compare how much you do now with how much you did when you were just five years old? Do you decide how much harder or softer you have to go based on how hard you worked when you were ten years old? If we have learned to put the memories of our childhood behind ...