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Authors Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald of Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People and creators of the Implicit Association Test (IAT) reveal the hidden biases and stereotypes that subconsciously reside within our minds and affect the way we behave towards others, through this book. Based on the authors' experience with the Implicit Association Test, a method that has revolutionized the way scientists learn about the human mind, this series of insights gives us a glimpse into what lies within the metaphoric blindspot and how we can adapt ourselves to treat people around us fairly by aligning our behavior with our intentions.

Blindspot By Mahzarin Banaji And Anthony Greenwald

If a test could measure just how racist, sexist, ageist and homophobic you are, would you take it? Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald, the scientists behind the test explain that our minds work very differently than we choose to believe. And is there anything you can do about this? Absolutely. Learn how to watch out for and overcome any hidden biases and stereotypes riddled in your mind, through this series.

Have you heard of a mindbug? They're pesky little creatues that live in your mind rent-free and lead to errors in how we perceive, remember, reason and make decisions, say Banaji and Greenwald. So, how do these mindbugs form and how can you get rid of them? Find the answers to these questions in this video.

Mindbugs are beliefs that color your perceptions and lead to unconscious biases and prejudices. While you can't change these biases, you can curb your behavior and instincts if they go against your conscious values.

Here's the thing about groups: you naturally prefer the one you're a part of. Why? Because it shapes who you are and what you believe in. This preference leads to a bias - "us" versus "them." The question is, how do we stop this bias from crossing the line and becoming discrimination? Let's look at what Banaji and Greenwald have to say.

Discrimination is the result of covert predjustice and contributes to injustice and inequality. Favoritism, using connections to help a friend, is a subtle form of discrimination but just as harmful.

Words matter. Once spoken, they cannot be taken back. They hold the power to alter people's lives - ranging from life sentences to broken relationships. And that's why they must be chosen carefully, say Banaji and Greenwald. Whether it’s an email, a presentation or even an argument, use words that strengthen your case and clearly support your intent. - for maximum impact.

Words have the power to change people's lives. If not used carefully, words can alter perceptions, memories, change outcomes and destroy relationships.

Banaji and Greenwald’s Implicit Association Test (IAT) can reveal many aspects of an individual's personality, one of them being: their laughter. While deciding to hire someone at your organization, focus on the prospect's humor. Do they laugh at racist, sexist or homophobic jokes? Well, that’s your red flag. Remember, jokes that belittle or disrespect others just aren't funny.

Humor is another tool for uncovering bias. When hiring, pay attention to what makes a candidate laugh—is it belittling or disrespecting?

Ever heard of the damsel in distress waiting for her prince charming to come and rescue her? It's only a fairytale. Trouble is, such stories teach young girls that their future is dependant on finding the right man rather than their own ambitions and efforts. Banaji and Greenwald highlight the negative impact of such beliefs on women and why they must be changed, in this video.

For women, the romantic fairytale template is counterproductive. It teaches that a woman's future depends on finding the right man, not her own efforts.

What's your favorite stereotype? Well, you shouldn't have one because they're usually negative, frequently unfair and largely untrue. Trusting the labels other people attach to you can be downright dangerous, so make sure to fight them as they will impact your choices in everything that matters, say Banaji and Greenwald.

Stereotypes are usually negative and untrue. Accepting the stereotypes that other people assign you can impact your fundamental life choices.

Mindbugs are destructive and we're all infected. And here's the bad news: you cannot get rid of them completely. Does this mean you’re stuck with them in your brain forever? No. Banaji and Greenwald point out that you can modify them. How? Let's find out in this video.

To get rid of mindbugs, acknowledge your biases, increase exposure to others, and seek positive examples. Hardest of all, see yourself not how others see you but as the person you really are.

Steve Jobs revolutionized the world. The reason why Apple products lure many despite higher pricing is the build-up to the launch. Principal at thoughtLEADERS Brian Ahearn shares insights from The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs to help hone these skills.

The Presentation Secrets Of Steve Jobs By Carmine Gallo

Apple products are testimony to Steve Jobs' dedication to perfection in both technology and design. He had a knack for generating interest and anticipation for each product, and this book reveals some of those secrets. Find out how to flare aspirational desires in the minds of the consumer?

Raising aspirational desires in customers results in creating a demand for it.

Knowing your presentation software is just one of the steps to a good show, but it is not all there is to it! These are just tools aiding you and not the other way around. Ask yourself this question before you start preparing.

Overdependence on presentation software leads to boring shows. The focus is on you, so polish your story and the key points you want to highlight.

Finally, it is about how well you sell your offering, whether it is a product, an idea, or a service. Questions are important in this episode: posing them, framing them, or even answering them can lead you to your goal. Here are some sample questions to get you started.

Ask an engaging question to onboard your audience at the outset. Once you have secured their attention, present your idea.

Creating a vision of what you imagine will help your audience to buy your idea more easily. What you don't say is as important as what you do. People remember better when they can associate a memory with a great story.

Make it easier for the audience to visualize your thoughts. Being on the same page with your target group increases the chances of making a sale.

Humans are wired to answer a question, even if they don't verbalize it. And Steve Jobs knew this. He would use this trick to get the audience to agree and engage with him more often.

Learn to pause for effect after you pose a question or make a statement. This also gives the audience time to reflect upon it. Use the less is more strategy to build impact.

Not all subjects are simple to explain. Steve Jobs suggests employing metaphors, analogies, and testimonials to break down complex matter into easily comprehensible bites. The audience can understand better by relating complex concepts to familiar situations. Learn to use these devices effectively in this episode.

Using Metaphors, Analogies And Testimonials

Metaphors give clarity by juxtaposing two entirely different things and revealing hidden meanings. An analogy explains a concept by comparing two disparate things. Testimonials speak up for your brand without sounding like a boast.

It might seem logical to inundate the audience with data. Facts reveal the truth, right? Wrong! Humans tend to get overwhelmed when dealing with too much information. Follow Jobs' lead in driving the message home, just as he did with the iPod.

Don't drown with data. The bigger the number, the less convincing they are. Keep the message short and simple for it to be memorable.

Presentation is a skill and it can be learned and perfected. Steve Jobs practiced the craft until it came naturally. Use routine activities such as walks or travel time to practice frequently.

Know your presentation material well to adapt to changing circumstances. Practice as often as possible to learn the flow. Try recording a video to see it through the audience's eye.

Having risen from more rejections than she can remember, award-winning marketer and best-selling author Sam Bennett draws on her insights working in theater and film to help you find the opportunity in rejection, sharing tips on how to overcome your setbacks with grace. Following this five-step program, learn how to get more comfortable with failure. Master the power of perspective to guide you down the path that helps you accomplish your dreams.

Following this five-step program, learn how to get more comfortable with failure. Master the power of perspective to guide you down the path that helps you accomplish your dreams.

Module 2: R-E-J-E-C-T Find Out What It Means To Me

Rejection affects us deeply, and can even feel like physical pain. In this lesson, you'll learn why rejection affects us the way it does, and how to respond to your feelings of rejection reasonably.

Being rejected so often creates intense feelings of disappointment. After this lesson, you'll be able to take those disappointments in stride and turn your attention to what may be coming next.

When you've experienced disappointment, it's easy to globalize and feel rejection everywhere. In this lesson you'll learn how to categorize your rejections into types, so you can take away just the lesson you needed to learn.

Sometimes the ego's reaction to rejection is to get more proud, but ignoring your true emotions is missing out on one of rejection's most important lessons. After this lesson, you'll have a process that will enable you to face your feelings and soothe yourself through them.

Our brains love to tell us negative stories about ourselves over and over. In this lesson, you'll learn a new way to talk to yourself about past failures, one which reduces your emotional attachment to a particular failure and helps you to move forward.

What do you really think success is? In this lesson, you'll learn a new understanding of success that you can use to both appreciate where you're at right now and to build a plan for your future.

It's often painful to revisit a failure, but not thinking about it can often mean remembering it incorrectly. After this lesson, you'll know how to discern what really happened and separate fact from hyperbole.

Not all rejections are equal. In this lesson, you'll learn how to pinpoint exactly who rejected you in order to better understand what happened and how you want to feel about it.

Failure can feel like the end of the world. But what if it isn't? After this lesson, you'll be able to identify the actual consequences of a specific failure.

Disappointments are hard, there's no way around it. But in this lesson, you'll learn how to appreciate disappointments for what they can teach you, and be able to identify what each one teaches you about what you really want.

Small criticisms can often feel like big rejections, even when we need to hear them. In this lesson, you'll learn a practice from theater in order to accept constructive criticism gracefully.

If it seems like the same rejection happens to you over and over again, maybe it's time to look inward. After this lesson, you'll be able to check your life for the patterns and stories that keep turning up and start to make new ones.

You may be rejected hundreds or thousands of times. In this lesson, you'll acquire a strategy to treat each rejection as a learning experience, instead of letting the numbers get you down.

Sometimes the best way to beat rejection is to look at its opposite: success. After this lesson, you'll be able to keep track of your successes in order to build a list of things to do, instead of things to avoid.

It's hard to walk away from something once you've spent a lot of time and effort on it. In this lesson, you'll learn the key question to ask yourself to make sure you're not investing more time on a project than it really deserves.

An enormous percentage of your thoughts are self-criticism, but that kind of talk keeps you trapped in self-defeating behavior. After this lesson, you'll be able to change the tape of negative thoughts in your head to a voice that recognizes your hard work.

The anticipation of rejection is almost as bad as the rejection itself. In this lesson, you'll learn a strategy to prevent that terrible anticipation by instead seeking failure out in a variety of situations.

Rejection can make you feel like you're never going to achieve your goals, but that's a lie. In this lesson, you'll recognize you're closer to success than you thought and will learn how to think in terms of incremental improvements.

You're probably telling yourself the same story about your failure, but what if you broke that rhythm with a new thought? After this lesson, you'll have eleven new thoughts to practice with.

Rejection sometimes hurts so much not because of what happened, but because of the way it happened. After this lesson, you'll be able to identify your values and understand the role they play in how particular rejections affect you.

Rejection can leave us feeling powerless. But in this lesson, you'll learn a process to regain your feeling of control over your life and take back your path to success.

Sometimes rejections are helpful indicators that we just aren't in the right place. After this lesson, you'll be able to surround yourself with people you like and respect, and who like and respect you, too.

One of the best ways to deal with rejection is to start building pride in yourself. After this lesson, you'll be able to start the habit of recording your achievements in order to keep setbacks in perspective.

In this video, Sam will share further resources on how to combat rejection that you might face in your endeavors.

Partnerships are never easy, even if you have a shared vision. But often, when two people bring out the best in each other, behemoths get created.

Business Partnerships That Changed The World

Bill Gates and Paul Allen forged more than a friendship in school. They set the foundation for a partnership that benefited from their contrasting skills, and a shared love for programming.

Maintain an open discourse with your business parter but stick to your respective competencies.

Magic was created when Disney's Michael Eisner and Frank Wells-- one an innovator and the other a dealmaker-- decided to join forces.

A succesful partnership is built on honesty, complementary skills, effective communication, and a focus on individual responsibilities.

Charlie Munger wanted to be a lawyer but was convinced by Warren Buffett to come on board at Berkshire Hathaway. That started a partnership that would fuel the growth of the investing major.

The foundation for a successful partnership is mutual respect. This allows the organization to benefit from their complementary thinking.

The teaming of Oprah Winfrey and Jeff Jacobs is legendary. How did their paths cross? Why did she trust a new manager? From a highly paid employee to the owner of a multi-billion dollar empire, find out how Jacobs masterminded her stellar rise.

A successful partnership requires a clear brand and clear manager. Partners must bring their own unique skill sets but work together to grow their companies.

Management consultant, author, and speaker Jamie Turner introduces a framework he calls the Four Pillars of Leadership. From Mindset and Mentoring, to Management and Marketing, this series delves into the tips and techniques to be a better leader.

How do you define leadership? Get acquainted with the matrix for communication and how to apply it in your workplace and life to be a better manager, leader, and mentor using this master plan.

A leader is someone who makes something happen that wouldn't happen otherwise. To grow as a leader, mentor and manager, it's helpful to operate within a framework of guiding principles.

Mindset over skillset, says Jamie Turner, letting in on techniques such as action (and not reaction) to play the game on the offense. Watch confidence levels soar as a result of this action-oriented approach.

A leadership mindset means taking a proactive approach to planning, innovating, and executing. It is an action-based approach that involves setting annual goals, recognizing that failure is a new beginning and that your confidence will come from positive results.

Keep the mentee's interests in mind when you advise them. Match your goals with their long-term goals. Build bridges by framing the questions correctly and opt for grace instead of rule of law.

People are motivated by what benefits them, not what benefits others. Frame your mentoring with the recipient's self-interest in mind, matching their goals with the company's needs.

Good communication skills are a surefire way of finding solutions. Jamie Turner suggests meeting dos and some don'ts. Call status meetings for quick updates, avoid micromanagement and assign action items for attendees before wrapping up.

Most business problems can be solved through better communication. Use meetings to facilitate communication by establishing meeting objectives, avoiding micromanagement, and ending with clear action items.

Get inside the minds of the person you are communicating with using Jamie Turner's Mind Mapping techniques. Don't be fazed by a group situation with a mix of personalities. Use these four steps to appeal to each of the quadrants.

Effective communication involves getting inside the heads of the people you're talking to. Tailor your message to the type of person or people you're addressing, covering off the four quadrants of the mindmap for broader audiences.

Struggling to lead beyond your function? Nick Holley reveals five key leadership transitions to help you shift from tactical execution to enterprise-wide impact. Learn how to unlearn old habits and lead with strategic clarity, influence, and purpose.

5 Critical Leadership Transitions for Enterprise Success by Nick Holley

Author and marketing expert Jamie Turner offers a five-step program to build your own powerful personal brand. Learn how to amplify your presence on social media and reach the right audiences. Turner is an internationally recognized author and speaker  topics of marketing, business leadership and branding. He is also the co-author of several books on digital marketing and doing business over social media, and the CEO of 60SecondMarketer.com, a business blog.

Before you get on the five-step program to build our personal brand, you need to spell out who you really are and how you want to be perceived.

Your personal brand is made up of the unspoken and spoken messages that someone receives about you. Make sure you establish a credible personal brand by first spelling out who you are and what you want to be.

Who do you want to be 10 years from now? Start by describing your goal and then think about how to make it happen.

Write your aspiration statement clearly: who you are and where you'd like to end up in 10 years. It is going to be the foundation of your personal brand.

Do you know who you are selling your personal brand to? Jamie Turner classifies the audience into four categories and tells you how best to reach out to each type.

To make your personal brand shine, understand the mindset of your audience. This will help you tailor your communication for maximum impact.

You can attract your audience by taking the most compelling aspect of what you do and showcasing it either in a blog, podcast, or YouTube channel.

Creating a brand involves creating content: a book, podcast, blog, articles, and more. Remember to make the content solve a pain point for your audience.

One way of building awareness for your brand is to take on speaking opportunities. Jamie Turner has handy tips for conquering stage fright and revamping your wardrobe too!

Engage in public speaking as a way to build awareness for your personal brand. To get started, develop a marketing package and approach business networking groups.

Exploit digital media to amplify your content. Let those who matter know what you do. Here are some effective tips on how to gain more online visibility.

Take time to create a content centerpiece that acts as a magnet for your personal brand. Repurpose your content across a variety of channels and use paid media to build your audience.

This course is developed based on Prof. Vijay Govindarajan’s framework for Leading Innovation using the 3 Box Solution Model. This is one the modules from the course from Tuck Executive Education  at Dartmouth.

Introduction To The 3-Box Framework With Examples

What makes In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman a much sought-after management book, 40 years after it debuted? Finding a common chord among outstanding organizations led the authors to analyze their success. It also helps pin down timeless parallels between the modern workspace and establishments from the post-WWII era the book is set in.

In Search Of Excellence By Robert H. Waterman Jr. And Tom Peters

Tom Peters and Robert Waterman base their book on 43 stellar companies that withstand the onslaught of competition and come out shining more than ever before. Watch this series to find out what works in their favor!

The first outstanding thing that star-performing companies do is act quickly. While research and analysis are good, they do not guarantee success. Showing your innovation to the customer ups the chances of victory. Here are some great examples of how to do this.

Competitive companies focus on action. Forego extensive analysis and planning in favor of experimentation, even at the risk of occasional failure.

What is a company willing to do to make the customer happy? Plenty, as examples in this episode demonstrate. Whether it was Frito Lay, IBM, or the lesser-known Lanier, these companies put the customer at the forefront of their offerings, making the user experience the hero.

An excellent company delivers excellent customer service. Seek to exceed your customers' expectations and not only will your brand inspire customer loyalty but it will also evolve in unexpected ways.

A kind of bureaucratic lethargy sets in as businesses grow. The solution to this lies in project champions who revitalize the company and reinject the spirit of innovation. As the examples in this episode show, small energetic groups have a far better chance of success than large teams.

Businesses naturally become slower and less innovative as they grow. You can avoid this deceleration by creating small, autonomous units within your organization.

Decode your people philosophy. Are you as trusting in your team's ability to perform without strict supervision as you profess to be? It has been proven that people don't perform in distrusting and disrespectful conditions. Consider that as you build your team.

Excellent companies are made of excellent people. Your organization is more likely to be productive and successful if your people feel trusted and respected.

As a team member, it is essential to know and understand the core values of your organization to work towards fulfilling them. However, before you set about laying the foundation of your company's culture, consider two essentials: your values should not clash and limit them to just a few, so they are easy to follow.

Values play an active role within an organization—they galvanize employees and help set direction. Choose a small number of clear, complimentary values that embody your company's purpose.

Judge before you leap over chasms and business acquisitions alike. Assess your strengths and play to them is the advice from the authors. Find out what happened when alcoholic drink maker Heublien acquired the fast-food chain KFC.

It can be tempting to expand into new and growing business areas. Make sure the new business is in keeping with your existing expertise and you thoroughly understand the industry.

The great performers excel in managing their operations by keeping it simple. Intel and IBM perfected the art. Learn how to handle middle-level management expansion to your benefit.

Complex organizational structures can create unhealthy spheres of influence and narrow perspectives. Seek to keep your corporate structure simple by choosing clear operating units organized around product, business, or region.

Companies that excel have stringent control over quality and service. They also encourage entrepreneurial and innovative spirit in their workforce and thrive because of this.

The concept of loose but tight means exercising control over core functions like legal and finance while allowing operating units rein to innovate. The two modes are synergistic—each strengthens the other.

Dividing the easily definable factors as hard things and the others as soft things, the authors argue that excellent companies tend to outperform other companies because of their ability to focus on the soft things.

In business, hard things are tangible, like procedures and structure, while soft things are intangible, such as culture. To build a successful organization, focus as much attention on what you can't see as what you can.

In Dare To Lead, researcher and storyteller Brené Brown brings readers a practical handbook on what it takes to be a brave and courageous leader. If you’re ready to transform your leadership style and your organisation, this course is just what you need.

If you’re a leader who spends a lot of time dealing with self-doubt, Dare To Lead will teach you how to turn vulnerability into your greatest strength. Brené Brown is a researcher and storyteller who spent two decades studying the effects of courage, vulnerability, shame and empathy, in addition to how they impact leadership.

Have you encountered a culture of blaming and shaming at any of your workplaces? Ever worked in an office where every small failure was followed by a knee-jerk reaction? These are just some of the most obvious examples of what happens under weak leadership. In this video, we will showcase ten familiar traits we find in our workplaces that can hold teams and organizations back.

The word "vulnerable" comes wrapped in negativity, but the truth is vulnerability is not a weakness at all. Everyone feels vulnerable. Even the most successful leaders experience many types of fears on a regular basis. In this video, we’ll introduce the idea of turning vulnerability into a strength by framing it not as a weakness, but simply a barrier that needs to be overcome.

Vulnerability is not a weakness. You don't need to trust someone before you can be vulnerable in front of them. Everyone needs someone they can lean on, and you were not built to walk alone. In this video, we’ll break down the biggest myths surrounding vulnerability, so that you can start embracing it.

Dealing with vulnerability doesn’t just mean expressing yourself, it also involves paying attention to what others have to say. In this episode, we’ll go through a short exercise where you build your Square Squad - a small group of people you can trust to give you honest feedback at all times. 

In this episode, we’ll learn how to "rumble", or tackle potentially uncomfortable discussions or meetings by using a simple framework. When you’re rumbling, every stakeholder enters the session with an open heart and mind, with the single aim of solving the problem at hand, without letting egos get in the way.

In order to rumble successfully, you need to communicate with complete clarity. In this episode, we’ll take you through five actionable steps you can take to ensure there is no gap between what is being communicated, and what is being understood by the group.

In order to protect ourselves from getting hurt or embarrassed, we build different types of armor around us. From not seeking help, to trying too hard to be liked, this need to self-protect can be broken only by embracing a wholehearted approach to leadership.

Armored leaders come from a place of self-protection. Wholehearted leaders lead with compassion and empathy. In this video and the next, we’ll look at specific examples of the problems armored leadership can lead to, and compare and contrast wholehearted leadership.

Armored Leadership vs Wholehearted Leadership: Part 1

Among other things, in this episode we look at one of the most common examples of armored leadership: one where exhaustion and business are rewarded over performance.

Armored Leadership vs Wholehearted Leadership: Part 2

Shame is the voice in your head that tells you "you’re not good enough". Brené Brown describes it as the master emotion, and the one that most often stops us from being vulnerable. In this episode, we’ll learn about this vortex of shame by explaining how it works, and how it shows up at the workplace.

To overcome an emotion as strong as shame, you need something equally as strong - empathy. Empathy is not about trying to make things better for a person, or looking for solutions. It’s about telling them you understand, and letting them know you’re there for them. In this episode, we’ll go through a set of Do’s and Don’ts that you can follow to lead with empathy.

The most difficult part of getting into tough conversations is that you have no control over the direction it will take. In this episode, we’ll look at the one thing that will help you get through these rumbles without getting scarred: grounded confidence, or confidence that is built on self-awareness, curiosity and practice. 

In this video, we’ll look at how core values help in your journey towards becoming a brave leader, and will also go through Brené Brown’s simple toolkit that will help you live by your values.

In this episode, we’ll go through a three-part process to help pick out your two core values. You’ll start with some blue-sky thinking and list down everything that comes to mind, before narrowing it down to the two you feel are most aligned to your beliefs.

Any feedback session is about facilitating and fact-finding - it’s about listening as much as it is about talking. In this episode, we’ll go through a seven-point checklist that will help you build a key skill - having a tough conversation without getting hurt or being hurtful.

The slightest inkling that someone is questioning our trustworthiness puts us on the defensive, and makes us shut down emotionally. This is why trust is one of the most important things in any relationship - whether in your personal life or at work. In this episode, we’ll go through Brené Brown’s step-by-step guide to building trust.

Being a courageous leader means you will fail - it's important to learn how to rise in anticipation of this. In this episode, we’ll look at a simple two-step process that will teach you how to rise back up when you fall, how to overcome your mistakes, and how to learn and move forward from the hurt that we feel from our failures.

Having worked your way through this series, you are now equipped for your journey towards becoming a truly courageous leader. In the final episode, we go through the big talking points of the course, which you can use as a ready reckoner in case you need a quick refresher.

Python and R are common programming languages used when working with data. In this course, taught by expert data scientist and coding instructor Lavanya Vijayan, you'll learn the important considerations for using each language in various circumstances. You'll discover how to analyze data using both languages, and examine the use-cases that play to each language's strengths. By the end of this course, you should feel confident in your ability to discern the best programming language to use between Python and R.

Python and R are two very popular programming languages used in the data science world. After this course, you'll be able to identify the best situations for utilizing each programming language.

Before diving into the topics discussed in this course, there are a few things you should be aware of. After this lesson, you'll be able to feel prepared when navigating the rest of the course.

There are specific programming languages that play nicely in the context of the data science world. After this lesson, you'll be able to recognize the reasoning behind this logic.

Using Python when working on data science projects can be a valuable tool. After this lesson, you'll be able to identify the reasoning for using Python in data science situations.

R is a helpful analytics language for working in the data science world. After this lesson, you'll be able to identify the benefits of using R for data science.

Python and R are both valuable languages to use when tackling a data science initiative. After this lesson, you'll be able to conduct high-level comparisons between the two languages.

Module 3: Key Differences In Handling Data

When loading your data, the method you will use depends on the type of data file you have and the programming language you're working in. After this lesson, you'll be familiar with the methods of loading data for the major file formats in both Python and R.

There are different approaches to data exploration depending on which programming language you are using. After this lesson, you'll be able to recognize the key differences and similarities in exploring your data with Python and R.

Python and R can both be extremely valuable to use when cleaning and manipulating your data. After this lesson, you'll be able to recognize these values and differences to make better decisions throughout your process.

Visualizing your data is a crucial aspect of discovering and communicating trends captured by your data, so it's necessary to carry out the right steps to create visualizations. After this lesson, you'll be able to translate visualization goals into visualization methods and pinpoint how the process differs between languages.

There are many strategies for conducting data analysis in R. After this lesson, you'll be able to conceptualize a major data analysis strategy in R and the types of insights this can help you achieve in a data science project.

Python can be a very useful language to perform data analysis. After this lesson, you'll be able to conceptualize a powerful strategy for data analysis in Python and how insights can be drawn from this.

There are several common applications of Python in which it's the better tool to use. After this lesson, you'll be able to identify what these applications are, and why Python is the right choice in these circumstances.

There are applications of R in which it's the better language to use for data science projects. After this lesson, you'll be able to articulate what these projects and goals are, and why R is the better option in these circumstances.

Now that you've finished this course, you should feel armed to determine which programming language to use and when to use them in different scenarios. Thanks for watching!

Connecting The Dots By John Chambers

Connecting The Dots By John Chambers

Connecting The Dots By John Chambers

Episodes

1. A Masterclass In Digital Disruption Strategies

2. How To Avoid Getting Disrupted

3. Think Like A Teenager

4. Think Ahead, Plan Ahead

5. Embrace The Purpose, Not The Product

6. How Chambers Managed Cisco's Worst Crisis

7. Sell People Only What They Need

8. How To Hire The Right Leaders

9. Are You Spending Your Time Wisely?

10. Remember To Take ‘Bathroom Breaks’