Portfolio Ideas for Healthcare Data Analysts that will LAND YOU A JOB! 

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@@DataWizardry Everything ok here... Hey, I am really impressed with your video's... You're a natural. Can't wait for you to add some AI topics.

Great idea! Yes, I'll try to do one of these soon.

Hi Amari, welcome to the channel! First, I would say that when you're starting out as a data analyst, this is a common barrier. And it's something that I struggled with too. But as you gain experience in your job, you gain that domain knowledge, and learn what works and what doesn't work. When I first started at a hospital, a C-suite person asked me to do an analysis on patient mortalities. I had no idea what I was doing; I only knew where to pull the data from. So in that case I just created a whole bunch of visualiztions in Tableau that sliced and diced the data in different ways. Like How many patients died over some span of time, or what would happen if I stratified death percentages over different service lines like Cardiac surgery, or neurosurgery. I showed it to him and he was like "Oh this is a good start. But it would be even better if we added X, Y and Z" And then we had an iterative process that eventually evolved into something that he could use. One thing you can also do is ask "what do you hope to get out of this data?", or "How will you be using this report?". Ask lots of clarifying questions. Asking those big questions often helps frame the problem a little bit and give you ideas on what you might explore. But it might feel like you're floundering a little bit at first, so just keep at it. Try to innovate and experiment. Get a mentor and see how they approach problems. And eventually their analytical methods will rub off on you too!

@@DataWizardry this was super helpful! Thanks a lot!

Thanks! Yes, ProjectHealthViz is a project by Lindsay Betzendahl where you can get lots of different datasets to practice data viz in healthcare. Here is her website: vizzendata.com/projecthealthviz/

Not sure, but if it was anywhere, it would probably be the cms data website, which is data.cms.gov

@@DataWizardry Thank you! I found some datasets on there.

And I also run an RU-vid channel which name is medical wala so if you have any jobs recommendation so be in touch

I will try to connect you on linked in

Hi Saurabh! Thanks for subscribing! That's awesome that you're studying data science, and that you know the pharmacy side of healthcare.

I'm not too familiar with health information management, but I would imagine that in that role, you would have some stewardship over the proper and secure storing of healthcare records which are highly confidential. Data analytics on the other hand, which is what I do, leverages that confidential information to build reports that help clinicians, administrators, researchers, etc. figure out how to improve patient safety, how to increase efficiencies in the hospital, etc.

​@@DataWizardry- HIM is a business domain, interfacing heavily with Compliance and IT security.

Sure, here's what I would do: 1. Learn SQL 2. Learn Tableau 3. Build a porfolio of 3 Tableau vizzes 4. Use LinkedIn to network with people that use data in healthcare I break down the process here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ime7OBlERiM.html For Step #1, learning SQL, I have a video about this where you can get started: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ef4CAu-OwvM.html I also have a clinical analytics class that I am working on. You can sign up for updates here! datawizardry.academy/p/clinical_analytics_accelerator

Thank u

I would say it depends on what the associates degree is in. If it's a clinically-focused associate's degree, then it should be feasible. Otherwise, it's not impossible, but tricky. Becoming a data analyst becomes a lot easier if you have a Bachelor's degree.