As a reader of my blog, no doubt you have wandered over to my YouTube Channel at some point over these many years. For that, I really want to thank you.

This is a thank you and appreciation post for everyone who has subscribed, shared a video with a colleague, or left an encouraging comment on my YouTube channel over these many years. It’s certainly been a marathon, but the channel has finally reached 25,000 subscribers and is approaching 4 million total views!

When I first started, even 250 subscribers seemed out of reach, as that milestone took over a year to achieve.

I originally started the channel as a means to sharpen my own data analytics skills; my videos weren’t intended for anyone other than myself to view for reference purposes. Yet the channel has evolved into a platform for teaching data concepts to viewers around the globe.

My workflow involves finding a public dataset, experimenting with a new SQL / Excel / PowerBI technique or reverse engineering a complex Tableau dashboard that intrigues me (<–definitely not easy), meticulously documenting each step, teaching those steps clearly, and then recording and editing the final product.

Conventional wisdom says the channel should niche down on one tool, but I have more fun learning and teaching the data tools most widely in use.

The channel at times requires a significant amount of my weekend time, and I’m grateful that so many of you appreciate this work.

You’ve helped transform what began as a personal learning project into something far more meaningful, and for that I thank you!

As always, get out there and do some great things with your data!

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