 Hello, hello, hello. Hello, hello. All right. We're live. I'm using this thing called StreamYard, as you can see in the top right. Let me point to it. Oops. As you can see right up here, some other YouTuber told me to use it because they said it was better for live streams, which I don't do often. So I'm trying it out. I hope it's good enough for you. It's different than what I normally do, so I'm just trying it out. But I'm super happy to be here, super happy to see you guys. I'll be reading a ton of the comments. And I mean, I don't know if you've ever seen, excuse me, I don't know if you've ever been to one of these live streams, but they are nothing like my videos. They are all over the place. Let me seal it quick. All right, cool. Oh, jeez. I'm like, I'm looking at myself on here right now, and I'm like, really pale. I apologize, guys. All right, let me start reading the comments before I start going off on this. But all right, let me see. Aditya, hey from India, how's it going? Lukman, thank you. I appreciate it. I have chosen the winners of the giveaway. I'll announce those earlier than I did in recent ones. If you guys are only here to see who won the giveaway, I want to give you guys that sooner rather than later. So I'll announce that pretty early on, probably with on the first like 10 minutes. So then if you just want to hang out with me afterwards, let me see what you can see. In the back here, I have a ukulele, my guitar, this hat. We're going to have fun, but I am by no means going to hold you hostage to stay here with me. Nobody enjoys that. So let me read some of these comments. We'll get going in a little bit. But thanks for everyone being here. We have 90 people on. That's fantastic. Over the course of these live streams, and I've done many in the past, when I hit like 200,000, 150, et cetera, it usually gets like 1,500 people, 2,000 people that filter through. And I always appreciate it. It's always, I'm looking back down here at the comments. I always appreciate it when people come in, but by no means do you have to stay for the whole thing. Just hang out as long as you want. I'm going to be here for probably an hour, an hour and 15, don't tell my wife. I said that because I told her I'd finish at 9. But I'm going to stay. We're going to be here. She could be watching this live right now downstairs. I would feel terrible because she heard me say that. Let's see, Jason. Hey, how's it going? Tom, I'm glad you can hear me. Hey, my mom's on here. Hi, Maria. Hi, mom. Esan, how's it going, ma'am? What's going on? I'm glad people are here that I'm recognizing. My mom, I definitely recognize. For sure, for sure. Let's see. I always like reading the comments. Oh, gosh. My wife just texted me saying that she heard Mayday. All right, guys. I got to stop at 9 o'clock tonight. I have one hour, no longer than that, because my wife saw me now. All right, cool, cool. So we got my wife on here. We got my mom on here. Any other women in my life coming in on here? We'll see. There's probably only two that. Well, maybe my sister will join her. My sister-in-law or something. Sammy, Tom, Matthew. How's it going? Yeah, so, and I appreciate you saying it's better quality. It's decent quality, because typically, I should use the webcam feature from YouTube itself. But I'm using this thing called StreamYard, which is supposed to give better quality. Now, I could have gotten rid of the StreamYard and the Alex Freeberg if I had paid for it. But you guys know me. I don't like spending money, so I didn't. And you guys, you get what you get. All right, it is what it is. I didn't want to spend $20. It was $20, and I was like, I can't justify it, guys. But if I like this, I might upgrade. Or if I do more live streams, I might upgrade. But you guys are my guinea pigs for today. Rober or Robert says, good evening from Argentina. What's going on? Richard from, I'm guessing, NG is Nigeria. I have a strong following from Nigeria. You guys are awesome. Let's see. Malaysia, Cairo, is that how you pronounce your name? Good morning from Malaysia. Hey, good night from the US. Let's see, we've got people from Ghana, McDonald, whoa. I'm going to try this name, Khwar Khoop Omi. How's it going? From Ghana, Ghana, Panama, Nigeria, awesome. OK, so hey, everybody, here's how this thing's going to go. I'm sure some of you guys have, I already just mentioned this a few minutes ago, but I'm going to answer some comments. We're just going to show for a little bit. In probably like five minutes, I am going to announce the winners of the giveaway. I have seven winners. Two people are going to win one-on-one sessions with me. So those two people will, I'm reaching out to all the winners via email. Those two people will get one-on-one sessions with me. We will talk about whatever they want to talk about, resume, all that good stuff. Should be really fun. Five winners will win two courses from you to me. Shout out to you to me for giving some stuff away for free. Really appreciate you guys. But there are the Udemy courses in the description. Those are the ones that I worked with them to allow it to get for free. So those are the ones that you can choose from, and you'll be able to choose two of those. And I have taken every single one of those courses. I recommend all of them. So those are two that you'll be able to choose from. But we'll do that in like five minutes or so. Am I too close to this thing? Livestream is not my thing. I feel like I can't see myself. So I do this only for you guys. But really quick, let me go through some of the comments. James Andrew, with your portfolio and training, I got a job as a business intelligence developer. Congrats. That's fantastic. Oscar from Columbia, what's going on? Any data analyst advice? Let me think. I have a few things at pieces of advice. Really my only piece is just watch my videos. But if you have more specific question, I will answer that. Let's see. Let's see. I'm reading the comments really quick. I'll be staying for the secret ASMR part of the Livestream. Tom, you're a man of great wisdom. There was one of my Alex the Analyst Show episodes that I did. I think it was my last one, actually. And at the very end, I did some really close stuff like that. It was really funny. A lot of people who watched it all the way through thought it was good. I just, you know, who doesn't like ASMR? I mean, that stuff is great. So yeah, why not? Maybe we'll do a little bit of that later just for you, Tom, if I'm being honest. Nobody else. Let's see. Oh, hi, everybody. This guy, the real deal. Thanks, mom. I needed to hear that. Morning from India. Any updates on the Google Secret Hiring Platform? I finished level 2.5. I have to go back and finish the second half of level 2. But I will get there. And I'm going to do that. I have it pulled up on my computer. Like, I will do it. I just need to do it. But it's getting difficult. Like, it's much more challenging. Like, I'm not a developer. I am an analyst. So my Python skills are, I would consider, very good for an analyst. But for a developer, which is what, like, that process is actually for, I believe, it's pretty tough. So I'm doing my best here. I'm doing my best. Robert, congrats on the 250K. Thank you. I appreciate it. Any ETL developer advice wanting to get into data analytics? You got the technical side of things, for sure. So no, no, not much advice. Just watch my videos. It's hard to, I need more information. Need more information. What does the data analytics future look like? I think it's really strong. I don't see there being a decline in jobs or demand for quite a while. If you're looking at a 20-year forecast, you're fine. Who knows after that? But I have a strong suspicion it's not going to go down. Just like data is going to continue to be in demand. Data analysts are going to continue to be in demand for a long time. I don't really have a, I'm not really that concerned. Maybe I'm biased, but I don't think I am. Jordan Simmons said, Alex, you helped me get a data analyst job a year ago. I can't thank you enough. I'm super glad to hear that. Really, really happy to hear that. It's great hearing that stuff. It feels a bit surreal. It's like, hey, you helped me get a job. And I'm like, man, what video? Like what video helped? I want to know. It feels a bit surreal that people like, you know, I get messages often that they're like, hey, your video has helped me so much. I really appreciate it helped me get a job. Man, that's amazing to hear. And I'm like, man, that's wild to me. That it can actually be that helpful, which I'm just super happy about. So shout out to all you guys. I'm going to, okay, okay, okay. I'm catching up. I'm going to answer like, I'm just going to read a few more things in the comments and then we're going straight to the winners. And then it's just going to be randomness after that. So, you know, stick around at your own peril. I don't know. Let's see. If you could choose this three skills for learning data analytics, what would they be? SQL's one of them. If I would do SQL, Excel and Python, if I could create like, like for me, that's what I would use. Because I like Python a lot. It does a lot more than just the visualizations that like Tableau or Power BI, that's why I didn't choose it. That's why I would choose Python, just a more versatility. Will a person with social anxiety struggle with being a data analyst, do you do lots of presentations as a data analyst? You know, it's a lot more social interaction than you'd think. I mean, it depends if it's a remote job, which I have a remote job now. I don't like put my camera on a lot. I just talk. So, it's not very tough. But back when I was in person, it was a lot of social interaction. People come over to my desk at random times and I wasn't a fan of that. For the most part, I wasn't a fan of it. I need to flip my phone over. I keep thinking my wife is texting me. And if she does text me, I'm just kidding, right? I love you, baby. So, you know, it can be tough. It can be a tough transition, but you know, think of it as like an opportunity to kind of push yourself into just overcoming that. If you kind of put in that perspective, just it's an opportunity to grow in that area. Because in a lot of jobs, you're gonna have some type of social interaction. All right, I'm skipping down to the bottom. Congratulations, awesome. Cool. All right, let's get into it, guys. We have, I'm gonna announce the seven winners online. So, I exported it into an Excel where I'm about to read it right now. But online, where all the emails and everything is, that's where it shows me who won what. But I'll email that to you. So right now, you're not gonna know what you won. The suspense will kill you. And I will send you an email basically saying, hey, you won and this is what you won. And let's work on either setting up a time to meet for the one-on-one or tell me what courses you want and I'll get you those for free. So, we have somebody from, we have two people from the US, five are from other countries. So, we have a pretty wide range today. So, one of our winners is Joseph Cruz from the Philippines, congratulations. We have Michael Somerville from the US. Kevin Gild from the US. Ross Chase from Barbados. Steven Hurley from Canada. Varisa Pari from Thailand. And Sanuktha Ladd from India. Congratulations, you guys. I will be sending emails tonight for everyone who won. Even if you're not watching, I'm going to send you an email. Don't worry, I'm not gonna be that guy. You have to be watching the live stream. I'm gonna send you an email. But just a huge shout out. The reason I'm giving things away is because you guys have given me so much. 250,000 subscribers to be exact. And now almost to 253. Before we go into the craziness and the wild times that we're about to endure or enjoy depending on what kind of crazy stuff you're into, I really do wanna say from the bottom of my heart, thank you. It has been a really wild ride getting to this place. I don't feel like I've fully deserved it, but I fully appreciate it. And I really feel like, this is something that I have a passion for and I feel like I've met hundreds or maybe even thousands of people through this that I've just really grown to enjoy talking with and discussing this with. And so just a huge shout out to you guys because I could not do this and this would not be possible if it were not for you. So thank you. I really, really, really, really, really appreciate. And maybe I'll do this every 50,000 that we get, like at 300, 350, but when we hit 500, I have a feeling it's gonna be a very massive giveaway. I don't know what I'm gonna do, but it'll be quite wild. So now we're entering the time in the live stream where I have absolutely nothing planned. I have things around me, but I don't know what I'm gonna do. And that's the fun thing. If you've ever watched any of my Alex the Analyst shows at the very end, like I usually have a topic and I talk on it for like 30, 45 minutes. And then at the very end, like the last five, 10 minutes, I just ramble and I talk and it's nonsense. It's just absolutely nonsense. That is what the next 45 minutes is gonna be like, but I have more props. That's really the only difference. So, again, you do not have to stick around for this. I make that warning because I want less people to see the tomfoolery that's about to happen. But all right, let me read the comments really quick before, not before anything. I have no idea what we're gonna do. I'm just gonna hang out. CJ said, you get a car, you get a car and you get a car, absolutely. I will be giving away and you can quote me on this. Doesn't mean it's gonna happen, but you can quote me on this. I will give someone a car. Doesn't mean it's gonna happen, but you can quote me on that. My mom said I can take her out to dinner. Yeah, that's a good way to celebrate. Go, yeah, Ibrahim was like, Alex says, don't stick around. That means get out of here. So, what do I have planned for today? Let me see. First off, go ahead and ask anything you want in the chat. Like ask questions, it could be personal, it could be about data analysis, it could be about courses, whatever you wanna ask. Throughout this time, I'm periodically gonna check it, answer random questions, but there's no better way. Let me see, can you even see this? Get down a little bit. There's no better way to, I think really highlight this momentous occasion than coming up with a song on the spot. I have not written anything. I have not thought of anything. I didn't even plan what I'm doing right now. I didn't plan to sing a song about being 250,000 subscribers, but that's what's happening. And we're gonna see where it takes us. It could be beautiful, it could be disastrous. That's kinda how my whole life has been up till this point. So, you know, let me know if you can hear that. I'm gonna turn this down a little bit just so it can hear the raw emotion that's about to happen. But it's just been a wild ride, you know? It's been a beautiful thing. And I feel like, I feel like this is gonna become an emotional song. It's gonna be a tear-jerker. I was a boy, start a channel now. I'm at 250, where do I go from now? All right, that wasn't good. All right, let me think, let me think. See, I need like topics. All right, somebody give me a topic because I'm not good at freestyling like this, guys. Somebody give me a topic. I'm gonna wait in the chat because I can't embarrass myself. I can embarrass myself as much, but I'd rather not, but I will. Somebody say, why is Kenji the worst? I won't sing about that. That's not gonna happen. Sequel, yeah, I could sing about Sequel. I do have a love for that, for sure. I would take any other suggestions as well. Trees, Matthew, that's a strong suggestion right there, my friend. Tablovers, Power BI, that takes too much thinking. I need something, kinds of coffee. I like cats, see, now we're talking. Trees, cats, keep it going, guys, keep it going. Broker, thank you for the donation. I'll come back to that question, I promise. Let's see. All right, I'm like, we got coffee, trees, cats. See, that's much more my vibe. Like, I don't know what I'm doing, guys. What was that tune? This is, if you recognize this, this is actually a tune, it's a country song. It's like, oh, excuse me, excuse me. But I'm gonna use this tune, because I like it. It goes, maybe last night was hands down. Best nights had no doubt, it's between the bottom of the wine, looking your eyes in the boving gay. And then I'm gonna use that tune to sing about trees, coffee, and cats. I don't know what's gonna happen, guys. We're just hanging out. We're vibing. All right, let's do it. What kinds of coffee, like, trees and cats? I'm gonna fit it all in there somehow, but it's not gonna make sense and it won't, it makes sound good. It won't make sense, though. I'm walking to my backyard, oops. Sipping my coffee, yeah. There goes a cat. What kind of cat is it? Is it a tabby? Or a si-mi, drinking my coffee, enjoying the trees every day. I'm talking about, it's a honey roast. It's a, got a little creamer and I'm feeling good. All right, that's all I got. I don't know, that wasn't bad. It's, see, that's what I was saying. Like, it sounds okay, because of the guitar, the lyrics make no sense. All right, all right. Let's see, let's see what else I got. I'm already, I'm running on fumes here, guys. I'm running on fumes here. I'm really not. I have, I'll give me a second. I'm messing with my, where it is. I have an uncanny ability to continue talking for hours about nonsense. It has really taken me far in this YouTube game. It really has. Well, let's read some of these comments, because I guarantee, oh, you know what I forgot about guys? And I need to do this sooner rather than later. I need to go get my trimmer. I will be right back. I have a charging in here. I needed to make sure that it was charged for this, but I'm gonna go get my trimmer, a towel so it doesn't get messy. We have something exciting coming up. Totally forgot about this until literally just this moment. I will be right back. I'm back, guys. Oh, wait, where am I? Oh, there I am. It's looking at the wrong thing. Every milestone we hit, whether it's 150,000, let me go back to this one. Whether it's 150,000, 200,000, now 250,000, which is a pretty wild one. I shave for, there's no reason. There's no rhyme to it. I just did it one time and now I do it every time. But I use this portable cordless electric razor, or what is it? Braun electric trimmer, whatever. I use this to shave my face. Now, I have actually thought about what I want. And I think my wife said not to do this. Let me check my phone. Oh, my wife texted me again, but not about this. I don't think she's responded yet. I believe if I remember correctly, she said not to do this, but I'm going to do it because I said I was going to do it. I'm a man of my word. So what we're going to do is I need to take this off, because this is like the guard to make it longer. I'm trying to go for shortness. I think that's as short as it goes. I thought a lot about what I wanted to trim it into. Do I want it to be a goatee, which we did last time, which my wife was here supporting me in person, not downstairs watching Heartland, or whatever show she's watching tonight. She was here in person, and that meant a lot to me, but she's not here today. That's okay. I'm not upset about it, but I will have to do this myself. And so I thought a lot about it. I know what I'm going to do. So, yeah, let's just see how this goes. Let's see. Let me lay out my blanket. I don't want to mess after this. I don't have time. Nobody got time for that. I really don't. I just don't want to mess. So I'm laying out my towel. All right, this is good. I'm glad I remember this. I mean, this live stream was really going downhill for a second. I mean, we were scratching the bottom of the barrel at minute 20, okay? Out of a 60-minute live stream. So I mean, I'm glad that I was quick to think on my feet. Actually, I'm glad. Shout out to Smokes11, because I saw him say mustaches. He wanted me to sing about mustaches. But shout out to him because he reminded me that I needed to trim my beard. And while we're in here, Jordan Simmons, he wrote watches. Oh, geez, no. That's because I used to have a watch YouTube channel. I post like 10 videos and I stopped to make this channel because I didn't really like making the watches as much as this. People were saying programmers, Alex the singer. Yeah, I've been thinking about going professional singer for a while. Alex the singer is the name I thought of. So maybe one day. Okay. Yeah, I see a bunch of other people commenting and stuff. I'll get back to that soon. Now I need to be able to see myself. So give me a second. It's gonna be bright, I don't like that. Now, should I start with the mustache and only trim the mustache? That's the real question. Because that would look ridiculous. And in fact, I have to keep this on for the rest of the stream. I can't change it. So if I trim, if I trim my mustache, would my wife be mad at me? I don't think she's watching anymore. She's probably pissed at me of all the things I've said about her. But I'm gonna do this for you guys. I don't care. I don't even care. I sleep on the couch tonight. I'm doing it. All right, let's see what we got. All right. I wish me luck. And I'm gonna be looking. I have, I just so you know, I have like a screen right here where I can see myself. So, all right, here we go. Oh gosh. Oh no. That must be a really weird angle to be watching this. It's like, you guys are my mirror. That must be really strange. So I'm like really leaning in. I'm not doing that because I don't wanna get it on my keyboard. But this must be a weird angle to be watching this. Like normally I'm like back here. You guys get in the up close and personal touch that only Alex the Analyst can provide. It sounds creepy, but it's, yeah, I'm shaving right now. My wife came up here to stop me, but it's too late. She's too late. Baby, I'm in the middle of a live stream. Christine's not happy. She's angry at me. She's furious. She's begging me, pleading me. No, she left. She just told me not to do it and left. All right, keep going with us. It's already starting to look real good. Not bad. Taking one step at a time. This is usually the part where I either mess up or it looks bad. Either way, it's totally fine. Let's keep going. I'm gonna go on the other side. I'm a righty, so I'm just gonna go like this. Geez, how do I do this? I can see myself. I can see what you guys are seeing. And I feel like I look absolutely ridiculous. All right, we're gonna keep going. It's starting to shape up. If you like what's happening, you should consider a career as a barber or a hairstylist. Because that's the angle that you see most of the time. Okay, right now I have it in this goatee style. I like it. I think this is great, but I think I'm gonna go a step further. I don't wanna, at 200 when my wife did it, she did the goatee. I'm gonna take it a step further. I'm gonna trim my mustache and just keep this butt. I'm just kidding. I'm not gonna do that. I think I'm gonna do the mustache today. Let's see how it looks. This is a lot harder than it looks, by the way. This is a lot harder than it looks. Oh, geez. Oh, no. I look ridiculous. Okay, all right. Geez, what am I doing? This is, I'm telling you, I'm freaking out. I feel like I'm like about to accidentally like, I'm almost done. I'm almost done, guys. And then no more, no more, no more of this. What am I doing? What am I doing? Give me a second. It's starting to hurt. Geez, I can't do this anymore. All right, let me see how this looks. I feel like this side needs to be trimmed just a teeny bit. Isn't it longer? All right, let me try to do this on a little shorter. Let me clean this up. All right, how do I look, guys? The mustache looks nice. Now, if you guys don't remember, and for the sake of maintaining that persona, I believe this was, what was my, what is the name that I used? Like Kaby Mike, Kaby Cabdriver Alex or something. He's great. He's a good guy to get to know. Okay, I'm seeing a lot of, first off, I got to read some of these comments because we just, I didn't, I haven't read them in a while and I'm glancing at some of them and they are hilarious. But people are saying it looks good. This is awesome, I'm going for the biker look. I don't, I'm not going for a look. My wife will forgive me. Yes. Please, baby, if you're watching this, if you're watching this, I didn't mean it. Please forgive me. Please. That's me like every single day. Like, baby, please. Not to beg for forgiveness. She stands there and she's like, no. And I sleep on the couch and sleep in there for years. That's not true. I hope she's not watching this. Shave it all, shave it all, shave it all. Michael Jackson, suspicious name. Michael Jackson, I will not shave it off. Not all of it. It was, it was at this moment, he realized it. CJ, I always like your comments. He always cracked me up. Why is he trimming live? Nishanth, I'll give you a story. It's a story of a man who was raised with nothing but a stick. That wasn't me. That was the story. But I do it for no reason. I do it because I was, I think I hit like 50,000 subscribers or maybe it was 100,000. I was like, I got to do something big. And so I just decided, I was like, I'm gonna shave, I'm gonna shave my beard into like a mustache or something. And I did it. And now I just keep doing it because that's how I do things. I just do stupid stuff and then it sticks. And then I just keep doing it. So it's almost like I meant to do it. You know, if you do something dumb long enough, it's not as dumb that you can call me on that. Let's see. What do you do before starting your day? I do not get to start my own day, Virgil. That's a great question though. I used to wake up and watch like Netflix. Like before I had kids and was married and all this, like in college I used to wake up and like go to Netflix and just watch shows or game or something. These days I don't wake myself up. I sleep as long as my children allow me. And then I get up, watch cartoons, usually with my youngest daughter who's two. Then I make breakfast for them. And then we go throughout the day. I have to empty the dishwasher that I washed the night before. I have to make lunches. I take my kids to school and daycare. That's usually my mornings, like every single day. I don't have a choice. I wish I did. I wish I had control over my own life, but I do not. Let's see. I'm just reading these comments that are really funny. Handsome, yes. Number one, some. I don't fully know what that means, but I've heard of it before. If your data goes under, you can just start barbering. Honestly, I feel, no, let me look at myself again. I feel like I did a fairly good job given the fact that I'm like mirroring this. That is not easy. I mean, hey, you try it. You try live streaming in front of like 100 people and get that dude a better job than I did. I'm getting a little defensive. Not because anyone said anything. I'm just projecting. 10 out of 10 would recommend. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. Really quickly, I wanna go back because I told him, I said I'd go back. Broker Bollins, he donated some 10 bucks. And he said, learning all at the moment, SQL Tableau Power BI and doing projects via Maven. Maven's great. I like Maven's stuff. I find Excel a real drag. I don't know why, but can you get by with Pivots and VLOOKUP congrats on 250? So, you know, Excel is really kind of like, there's so many things you can do with it. So if you just are like, can I get by with Pivots and VLOOKUP? No, you need to know how to kind of standardize the data a little bit. And you don't have to do this in Excel, but I think it's good to know how to use in Excel. But, you know, Pivots and VLOOKUP are great things to know. But if you just check my Excel series, like if you go into the Excel series and you look at all the things that I talked about, I really only focused on like the most important ones. There's so many other things that you can do. I'm eventually gonna add to that Excel series and add a bunch of other stuff that I think are important more like broader topics, like data cleaning, some other data standardization, normalization, all this stuff. But since I haven't done that yet, those might be things to look into. But all things that you can do in Excel in that are really good to do. And somebody else, let me go, let me see. Can I go too far down? I hope I didn't go too far. I don't like skipping stuff or skipping comments. But I may have done that. I apologize. Bup, bup, bup, bup. I keep checking to see if my wife is texting me, but she's not, so I'm happy about it. Mr. Optimus said, I join the stream next. Next I see Alex with a clipper. I'm lost. Hey, look, nothing in this stream is going to make sense. I sang a song about cats, trees and coffee earlier and it was not good. But you listened and you heard me. And I feel like, you know, I feel like it's one of those things where the people on this stream right now are closer to me than anyone who's not watching it right now. Like you are getting this unfiltered, unedited version of Alex that you may hate and you may unsubscribe tonight. And I understand, I get it. But, you know, if you're lost right now, you're gonna be lost the rest of the stream, my friend. So let's see. And I have, if you go and watch some of my older videos, some of my older videos, I had a very thick mustache, like very thick. And my wife wanted me to grow it into a handlebar mustache, like with the twirls and everything. I almost got at that point and I was like, I cannot do this, like I'm not a fan. But I might do it again this, this, this like at the end of this year, maybe as it gets colder, I might do it again. We'll see. What about the eyebrows? I'll see, I feel like I went way too far back. Hey guys, my cat is coming right now. She wants me to pet her. I'm gonna friendly, I'm gonna gently pet her. Don't make eye contact, just pet her, act like she doesn't know I'm live streaming. Cindy, this is also a really shy cat that almost nobody has ever seen. I think I've maybe showed a picture once on my Instagram. So if you're like, if you just maintain eye contact, don't look down, everything's okay. She does not know anything. I'm gonna pick her up in a second. I'm gonna try to, we'll see if she runs away. She seems to be enjoying the pets. I'm gonna pick her up and you guys are gonna get a glimpse into another side that you've probably never seen. I always post pictures of my dogs. I never post pictures of my cats. Not because I don't like them. I just like them less. But I'm gonna slowly reach down. She's happy, I can tell. She's happy, maintain eye contact. Oh look, hi, Cindy. Oh, she's happy. Oh, oh, she's getting angry. So this is Cindy. Oh geez, oh, she's mad. Look while you can. Oh geez, she's mad at me. I wasn't risking it. I was not risking that. She's got sharp claws. Anyways, that was Cindy. She's great. She likes my wife. She does not like me or anybody else. Like she doesn't like anyone or anything else. She doesn't like the dog. Well, she likes Charlotte's or other cat, which is much more friendly. Where is she? She let me hold her. I hope that you enjoyed that. I risked my life for you in that moment. Let's see. Yeah, I feel like I went way too far back. I'm just catching up on comments. I'm like all over the place right now. You look French. Let me see myself. Oui. Maybe this is my French hat. Go to the bakery. Get the baguette. I don't even know if that's a French accent, guys. Give me a break. I'm doing my best here. I can't do it all. Or can I? Oh, oui. That's all I got. La Dichillon. La Dichillon, si vous plaît. Oui. Merci. Wow. Wow, that was better than anticipated. And if anyone knows any French and knows what I said, put that in the chat because I'd be impressed if anyone knows French because I don't know much, but that I do know. That I do know. I went to Paris for like two weeks in college with one of my friends and, oh gosh. Let me remove this user. Who's, wait, how do I block this person? There we go. Anyways. Yeah, thanks moderator. Okay, and I'm just catching up. Somebody was posting, some like bot was posting stuff. They were like commenting on that. Darryl, hey, thanks for the donation. The donation, I really appreciate it. I'm really glad. All right, I'm going to catch up to like comments and stuff. Matthew Alderman said, now that you've been a manager for a bit, do you have any insights as to how you like to be managed or how you'd like your employees to manage up? You know, that's a really good question, Matthew, because honestly being a manager is completely different than being an analyst, like completely different because, you know, I have one boss. Like my boss is the director of, I don't know his official title, he's a director level. This is the only person I report to. And my wife is texting me that she's watching all of it, so I hope this was worth it because I will be sitting on the couch or sleeping on the couch. I've made that joke one too many times. It's actually, now it's actually happening. But I have found that I like hands off management from people who are managing me. I've always preferred it. I don't like being micromanaged. I don't like a lot of check-ins. I like to be, hey, here's what we need to accomplish in the next two weeks, go do it, and just let me go do it in the next two weeks and I will get it done and more. But I just, if they constantly are asking, how's this, how's this, it doesn't work for me. My boss now is very good, gives me a lot of freedom, but checks in once a week, once every other week. How I manage at least is, again, I like to be fairly hands-off, but I feel like each employee is different. Some I need to be more on top of. Some I need to talk to more often. Some I need to be more involved with. It just depends on the person. And so I cater how I manage to each person, but it's ever changing. It is ever changing and I feel much more invested in their development and their career. So I'm actively trying to help them in their career, help them level up, scale up, get to where they wanna go. And that's a big part of being a manager is making sure your employees feel valued and making sure that they're reaching where they wanna go within your company. Otherwise, it's just in this environment they are. So that's something that I've been actively working on the past several months and it's been going well. Let me see. Okay, you guys saw the cat and people put it on screen. What's an MBTI type? Give me a second. Because some Abdo asked what's MBTI. The MBTI type. I'm Googling this really quickly. Interversion, introverted extroversion, sensing, intuition, thinking, feeling, judging, perceiving. I took this one time and I was like an INFP or FJ, I can't remember. I think I was like an INFJ. Let's go with that. I'm not wearing this well. Give me a second. My French, all my French people out there are judging me. They wear these like every day and they're like, that's how they scoff at people in France. If you've never been, that's just how they do it. I'd been there, so I wouldn't know. Sunflower said, wow, the cat lady. Yeah, my wife, she loves these cats. I think she actually underestimated how much she was gonna like the cats. Acid said, I have a fang interview tomorrow. Very nervous, any advice? Be confident, don't be nervous. Be confident, demand the job. My real advice would be to prepare. That would be my real advice. Look up the company, be prepared. Helps you not be as nervous, really does. Je ne parlez pas en français? Who knows France? Somebody speak in French to me, I don't like it. I take that as an insult. I'm the only one who can speak French here. I just wanted you to tell me what I said. It's insulting, insulted. You look Slavic, Polish, and Czech. Now, mom, if you're still watching, text me if I'm wrong about this. But I believe my heritage is primarily German. Freberg is a German name. Again, mom, fact check me on this if I'm wrong. But I believe we're also, we have some Scandinavian in us. Think of just the whitest, palest cultures in the world, and that's me. And it makes sense because I am extremely pale and I sunburn within 10 minutes and sun. So I think we're like German, Scandinavian, something called Bohemian. Mom, text me if I'm wrong on that, but I could have sworn you said we were Bohemian or something like DNA tested. So yeah, Victoria says, Victoria, my wife is watching. Victoria says, you look absolutely different and more handsome. No, I'm taken. I'm married, back off. I don't play games. My wife, Victoria, get out of here whenever you'd like right now. I was though French back in school. All I know is how to greet in French. How do you say hello in French? I totally forgot. I don't know. My mind, hamburger, has anybody seen that? Okay, we'll get to another segment in a little bit, but is the hamburger, that reminds me of, oh, is it Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, that movie? Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, I think that's correct. My mom isn't texting me, so I don't think I'm incorrect. There was an old movie with, oh, that guy from Cheaper by the Dozens. That guy, bonjour, of course. I knew that. I knew that. Thank you, everyone, who's telling me the most basic word in French that I forgot. But he's the actor from Cheaper by the Dozens, but he was in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and it was absolutely amazing. Oh, maybe it is the Pink Panther, Drew. I think you're right, I think it is the Pink Panther. Same act, but that same guy was in, was the Jacques Clousseau, is that his name, in the Pink Panther. Both, I highly recommend it, if you've never seen the movie, The Pink Panther, or the movie Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, highly recommend it. Steve Martin, you guys see, you guys know more than I do. I can't think, I can't think. So yeah, so I really, oh geez, how are these bots getting in here, man? This is crazy stuff. Anyways, yeah, the Pink Panther, Steve Martin, absolutely. A.B. said, my mom said, my mom said in the chat, she's, we're German, Bohemian on my side, Norwegian and Swedish on my dad's side. She wrote that in the chat, you can check that out for yourself. But yeah, that sounds right, let's see. I just saw, A.B. said, can you answer my super chat? Yeah, let me see what you wrote. I must have missed it, I apologize. Oh, I saw this and I totally missed it, I apologize. It says, my boyfriend, just the Google Data Analytics course, has a hard time getting his foot in the door. What do you recommend? His background is in food. He's in food, like, I mean, that's broad. Actually, you're just reminding me. So tell me what that means by he's in food. Like, is he a server? Is he like a cashier? Does he work at Wendy's? Or is he like a manager of a restaurant? Like there's a big difference. Yeah, Christine, my wife is texting me, you should show Max. Hey, if you wanna bring up Max or Rosie, bring them up. People, the people wanna see my dogs. My dogs. Yeah, bring Max or Rosie up and I will show them. So to answer your question, A.B., with the limited information I have, I'm sure you'll hopefully, I'm gonna give, hey, CJ, I trust you, I'm gonna add you as a moderator. Can you get rid of some of the spam in here? I just feel like I can trust you, man, I really do. He's a kitchen manager. Okay, a kitchen manager, I think, and I don't know much about the food industry, but I think the kitchen manager is managing how many ingredients they need to purchase, stuff like that, or the ingredients for the food that they need to purchase, maybe money, stuff like that. Evan Simmons, what's going on, man? Thanks for joining. I appreciate you being here, old friend. Yeah, so many bots in here. CJ, that's why I made you the moderator. I hope you can handle this amount of trust that I'm putting in you. Sorry, to go back and answer your question again, because my wife texted me, I'm just getting distracted. The Google Data Analytics course is, from my perspective, is a really great place to learn the basics, right? After you learn the basics, my recommendation is to go more in-depth into the skills, into those skills, SQL, Excel, Tableau, and then learn if Python, if you want to, or you can keep R either way, but you go more into those skills and build a portfolio. Now, the Google Data Analytics program talks about those things, it kind of helps and kind of guides you, but you have to go out and build it. That would be the next thing I would do. The second, the next thing after that is you really need, to get your foot in the door, you need a really good resume. If I were to start over today, and I took just the Google Data, I'm in that exact same area, I would reformat my resume to make it more analytics focused. So let's say he's a kitchen manager, I don't know 100% what that means, but from what I can tell, a kitchen manager, you are gonna work with ordering food, you work with maybe some money, you work with the staff to rearrange the staff. There are some ways you can reword and re, I would just say reword to focus and hone in only on the analytics piece. Maybe he keeps an Excel spreadsheet, maybe he needs to track when their stuff goes low or he tracks when ingredients go low and he needs to like order those on certain times of the week, depending on the cost, et cetera. There are ways that you can do that. So reformat your resume. If you're not getting interviews, your resume is the issue. Or it's that you're applying to jobs only online, you're not working with a recruiter. That's hopefully something in there helped, but that's kind of the advice that I'd give. Let's see, CJ for the win. CJ man, I'm really counting on you man. I don't know you personally, but I feel like we are, we're close now. You can say you were the moderator of the Alex Deen list YouTube channel. You can put that on your resume, I will vouch for that. You put that on your LinkedIn, you shoot me a message, I will vouch for you. Yes, I announced the winners. I am going to be sending out an email to all the winners. There were seven winners, I announced them. Should I go through them again? This is probably a whole new group of people from at the beginning. I'll go through them super, super quickly. Joseph Cruz from the Philippines, Michael Somerville from the US, Kevin Gild from the US, Ross Chase from Barbados, Steven Hurley from Canada, Varisa Pari from Thailand, and then the very last one was Sanyukta Lad from India. Those are all the winners. I didn't say what they won, you will learn that if you were the winner, you will learn in the email that I send you. So there you go, those are all the winners. Magmatic91s, and hi Alex, hope you're doing good, I am. Very good. When are you gonna make projects again? I haven't drink any water this whole time, I'm parched. I need more. I actually will be releasing the next project. It's the end of the Power BI project, I've already done it. I think it's pretty good. I already have it edited everything, it's completed. That will be released, I mean, I think I have like four or five more videos. So maybe like in a month, because I do one a week. So I think in about maybe a month it'll be released. And that project I think is a really good one for beginners. I think it's more in depth than the Tableau one. The Tableau one I kind of was like, maybe two beginner. This one is just a little bit better, I think in my mind. I don't know. But I'm going to eventually, I'm also creating the Python tutorial series and I'll have multiple projects in that one. So like a super easy project that you can do just to help you learn Python, more advanced projects to help you learn like pandas. And then an even more advanced one that like takes the whole ETL process. So I'll have multiple projects in that one. So if you want projects, projects are coming. They just, I have a lot, I have, I have so many ideas. I have so many videos that just they come, surging out at me. I guess I can't only do projects. I wish I could. But more projects are already on their way. I promise you. CJ, CJ, what the heck? Matthew, thank you for calling out CJ. Am I the only one? Gosh, okay, CJ, I take back everything I said. I will not vouch for you at all. I had to moderate this myself. It's tragic. Let me go back up. It said, I look like peeky blinders, a gentleman. Yes, I watched that movie from the recommendation of my wife. It was okay. It wasn't my favorite movie, but I didn't mind it. CJ said, only question. Do you believe in getting a master's in business analytics would be a great idea for someone who has freelance experience, a portfolio, simple project sense, but never had a position in DA. I have full videos on if you should go back to get a master's and the considerations that you should take. In general, if you cannot do that, it's probably better because it might take two years of your life where you could probably get a job in two years as a data analyst and get actual experience rather than just the degree. And then you don't have any student loan debt, but there are some considerations that take where it might be a good option for you to go back. So I just go check out that video. Where do you build the portfolio? I use GitHub Pages, but you can use Wix. You could use other ones. I can't think of any off the top of my head, although I know many, but I like GitHub Pages. It's free. Let me see. Food manager, change resume to experience as Edibles engineer. First name, this guy's first name here is dropping bombs. Like somebody take notes. GitHub Pages is part of GitHub where you can create your own website. Just Google GitHub Pages and you will know how it'll be pretty easy to understand. CJ, reading the mod settings, that's an amateur mistake, man. Amateur mistake. I give you this gift and you try to learn and grow from it. My mom said only two minutes left, sad face. Mom, just for you and with permission from my loving wife, I'm gonna go a little bit longer because people are still here. Once people leave, that is when I will stop the stream. We have zero people watching. I don't care if it's in three days, I will not leave this chair unless I turn it off in like five minutes. How do you show Excel projects on a resume? I usually just upload my Excel to GitHub. There is a way to do it. Look it up, that's what I do. But you can also like I said, if you do like a Wix page and you take screenshots or something like that, you can kind of create a narrative, like a story, here's how I clean the data, before and after pictures, that kind of thing. So yeah, there's definitely ways to do it. Bearded MTBR, I'm a high school math teacher currently working on a portfolio. I really enjoy PostgreSQL, Tableau, and Python. Alex, any advice for me? The portfolio is modeled off of your portfolio series. My advice is, do that portfolio series. Do the whole thing, put it on your portfolio. My advice is go beyond that. Do better than I did. Think of other things to do. So like create my core project, like the core project is supposed to be pretty beginner friendly, and then just add to it. Add some things that you were interested in when working with the data. And grow from that and build a better thing, a better project. And then when you wanna start making that transition, make a killer resume, add those projects to your resume, add those skills to your skills section, highlight those at the very top of your resume, and start reaching out to recruiters wherever you wanna move or where you live. Start reaching out to recruiters. That is my 30 second pitch of advice. Let's see. Matthew, you know what, Matthew? I'm gonna let you be a mod too. We only have like five minutes left. So Matthew, you know, you really, I feel like, and look CJ, there's nothing, I am not mad at you. CJ, I'm really not. But what I will say is I am disappointed. And Matthew called out the spam bots right away. So I'm giving him the same permission. And if you need a recommendation, you just shoot me a message on LinkedIn, my friend. Recommendation as like, I'll say yes, you were the Alexi analyst mod for five minutes on a live stream. I will claim that and I will vouch for that. Lots of love from India, lots of love back from the US. Are you gonna leave this stream up? Yes, I leave these streams up. You can go and check these out in a year, 10 years, whatever. I will absolutely leave it up. Let's see. Alex, can we donate via Bitcoin? I have a wallet that I probably could, pull up like a QR code or something like that, but I'm not gonna do that. You don't have to do that. I really do appreciate it, but no, we don't have to do that. That's a lot of work. But I appreciate you thinking of it. That's the kind of next level thinking that we need is how can I, when that conversation gets rolling, that's where crypto really takes over. Shout out to all my crypto people. I like crypto, so I appreciate that. Do you think projects or portfolio can be fun as in a blog using sports data or something, what kind of stuff can be taken seriously? I think all projects are fun. I love making projects. When I make them for you guys, I have fun making them. It's not like grueling. I think making it fun data, something that you're interested in and you're like, wow, I didn't think I'd find that or it could be about hiking trails. It could be about how much water the average person drinks. I have no idea, but it can be fun. As long as it's interesting and you enjoy the process, that will make it fun. I'm really sorry, I'm reading some more chats. Matthew says he's updating his LinkedIn right now, so I appreciate that. Let's see, let's see, let's see. I'm reading a lot more comments. How many hours did you put in during your career? Okay, so I've talked about this a few times on the channel here and there, but when I first started out, I was probably doing about four hours a night-ish. I would go to my work, I'd come home, my daughter would go to bed, my wife would go to bed, and I would stay up to midnight or so doing SQL. That's all I did at the beginning. That's all I knew what to learn. I just studied for four hours a night for like two months straight and I learned it. So do I recommend it? Sure, if you have that amount of time to do, I don't see why not, but it's up to you. It's whatever time you have available and what you want to commit to it. All right, guys, we got just a few more minutes. I have had a blast. You've got to see French Alex, who plays the guitar. I never got to bring this bad boy out. This is my ukulele. My mom and dad bought this for me. That's hot, right? What am I doing? What am I doing? That's good enough. I actually didn't want it like this. My mom and dad bought me this ukulele when I was, I want to say 16, 15, 16. And I have kept it all this time and I haven't broken it with all, with my kids being around. But let me see how it sounds. I don't even know what I'm doing. But that's LaVee and Rose. Do you know that song? Any, how I met your mother fans out there? How much sequel do you need to know? Jackie, to be honest, if you want an entry-level job and I'm being completely honest and transparent in this moment, I think you need to know at least up till joins. You may not even need to know subqueries. I would at least know select from where, group by having joins and aggregate functions in the select statement. If you know that well, you've practiced it, you understand it. You don't need to know temp tables and all that extra stuff. You'll learn that on the job. To get an entry-level job, I get up to joins. That's my opinion. Let me see, let me see, let me see. Jackie, how much Python? Come on, two questions in a row is a lot. How much Python? I would just focus on the basics and then focus on pandas at the beginning. If you can learn the basics of Python and pandas, you're set. That's what I would focus on at the beginning. I mean, genuinely, if that would be my recommendation, just learn pandas. All right, it's flowing down, which is great because genuinely, I do think my wife wants to go to sleep. So I'm like, our bedroom's over here. Here's like my office. There's our bedroom, so she can't go to sleep until I leave. But let me see if there's any other questions I want to answer, no offense if I don't. But let me see. One thing I'm just remembering that I said I would do at the beginning of this is I said I need to get closer. As I said that I would do some ASMR. I don't know if you recall this, but I promised someone earlier in the chat that I would do some ASMR. So I'm just gonna get really, is this too close? I'm just gonna get really close and answer some questions really quick. Just one or two, Christine, my wife. If, I don't know if you guys can even hear this. I hope you can. I think you can hear this. I'm only gonna do this for a few minutes and then I'm done, okay. But it says, Jackie said, thank you. Doing Python right now, great to know, Alex. Yeah, you're welcome, Jackie. I appreciate you, Jackie. I feel like whispering or doing this ASMR is slightly inappropriate, but I'll allow it for a moment. Let's see, let's see what else. All right, here's the last question I'm gonna answer and I'm sorry if I didn't get to your question, I really am, I really do apologize. I really do apologize, but what I will say is that the last question I'm gonna answer tonight is where's the best place that you've vacationed? Now, I have traveled. I'm a well-traveled man, but I've gone in a few places in the United States. I've also been outside of the United States. I would say my favorite place to visit was probably Paris, France. It was just life-changing. I learned very little French. The food was incredible, it was very expensive. I would say that was my favorite, my favorite place to vacation or that I've ever traveled to. I don't know about vacation. I like the mountains, I'm a mountain man. I'm a mountain man. Arcade Vampire says they're feeling the ASMR tingles. I don't know what the ASMR tingles are, but all right. All right, all right, guys. That's all I can do. It's getting weird, it's getting odd. Okay, so let me make sure I don't look too terrible. Oh, geez, I'm making this worse. This is my sign-off. You guys have been amazing. I really have appreciated you all being here. I've enjoyed talking with you. That is like, it's probably one of the best parts about being a YouTuber or, I don't wanna call, I hate saying I'm a YouTuber, but I'm a YouTuber, man. I mean, I understand. That's probably one of the best things about being a YouTuber is just talking with people and connecting with people. I, in real life, I say real life, but in like, when I'm in social gatherings, I tend to be much quieter. I don't, I'm not like, instinct connect with people. Like that's my wife, she's really outgoing. But like, when I get to talk with you guys, like you guys speak my language. You guys, you know, I kinda know you guys, you guys know me. And so it's a lot easier to just kinda come on here and talk, and so, yeah, I'm a YouTuber. So that's one of the best things about being a YouTuber is just being able to connect with people. It makes me very happy. I get a lot of joy out of it. So thank you guys, honestly. And some Jackie saying one million subs as the goal, I, it's possible. I might get there. It could take a few years. It's definitely possible, but I'm shooting for 500 at some point, then I'm going to a million. And I can't, and I could not do it with you guys. I couldn't do it without you guys. I could not do it with you guys. I couldn't do it without you guys. You guys genuinely have changed my career and you've changed like my life and it's been a wild ride. So thank you from the bottom of my heart. I really, really, really appreciate it. And so I hope you enjoyed this time. If you missed the beard trimming, this will be on my channel. You can go back and watch it. If you missed me playing guitar about cats, coffee and trees, it wasn't very good, but you can go back and watch it. Yeah, and that was really the only exciting parts. And I'll send emails out to all the winners. Congratulations. Really hope that you're able to utilize those courses or the one-on-one session with me. I will be wearing this during our one-on-one session. So thank you guys. I appreciate it. I appreciate you. I hope that we can continue to grow. I continue to put out valuable content that you guys like and find useful. And I'm always open to suggestions. I've gotten a lot of really good suggestions on content to create from people sending me emails or messaging me on LinkedIn, Instagram, wherever. I take these notes, like I write them down and I take them very seriously and I'm like, hey, somebody wants to know this is something that I should create. I've created many videos based off people's recommendations. So if you have ideas, if you wanna message me, email me, shoot me a message on LinkedIn, Instagram, wherever, Twitter now, I'm all over. Just shoot me a message. I love talking with you guys. I really do, unless you guys say something stupid which I don't ignore you, but that doesn't happen often. You guys are usually pretty cool. Anyways, thank you guys. That's all I have to say. Super happy to celebrate this 250,000 subscriber milestone with you guys. And we'll see where the channel goes from here. I have absolutely no intention of stopping. If anything, I wish I could do more. So this is not going away anytime soon. You guys are stuck with me. Fortunately, probably more so than you. I am stuck with you as well. So I will hopefully see you at the 300. I probably do want a 300K livestream. I'll just do on every 50 until we get like a million. Who knows? I will see you in the next livestream. I'll see you in the next videos. I am not kidding when I say I love you. I love you. I appreciate you. You guys are, you guys are awesome. You really are. So with that being said, goodbye. I'm gonna try to find the button to turn the stream off because I don't actually know how to do that. All right guys, I think I found it. Goodbye. Have a good one and good night.