Our guest today is Jess Ramos, Senior Data Analyst at Crunchbase and LinkedIn Learning Instructor.

In our conversation, Jess first talks about how she got into the field and her first analytics project. 

We then dig into her experience at FormFree where Jess worked on tracking the performance of integration partners. We discuss the value that data analysts can bring to a business and share some tips on how to process and clean your data. 

Jess finally shares advice on how to land a job in data analytics / data science and explains how LinkedIn completely changed her life.

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Follow Jess on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessramosmsba/

Follow Neil on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leiserneil/  

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(00:00) : Intro. 

(02:00) : Jess’s first data project. 

(11:07) : Data analytics @FormFree. 

(14:22) : The impact of building robust monitoring.  

(22:23) : Academia vs industry. 

(25:50) : How to clean and process your data. 

(28:50) : Management - mistakes & advice. 

(39:43) : How to land a data job ?

(52:31) : The power of LinkedIn. 

(57:57) : Career advice.