 All right, so you don't need a data analyst portfolio, but I highly recommend it. Especially for people who have no data analyst experience, a portfolio can be extremely great to have. Now really quickly, a portfolio is basically just a website or a collection of projects that you've created in Excel, SQL, Python, Tableau or Power BI or any other skill that you want and you put it all into one place. A portfolio is great for two reasons. One, it can help you get an interview. You can put a link to your portfolio website on your resume or on LinkedIn and people can see that and see the quality of work that you do. That might put you above other candidates that they were considering for that position. Second reason that a portfolio is so great is because when you're in an interview, they're gonna ask you about certain skills. What experience do you have using SQL? Now if you've never had a data analyst job, you're gonna say, I don't have any experience, I've just taken a few courses and that is not what you wanna say in an interview. What's way better to say is I've worked on SQL projects where I've done data cleaning and I've done exploratory data analysis using these different things. If you want some free guided projects and a way to create a free data analyst portfolio, go ahead and check out my YouTube channel.