@samir_patel
Member since 10 September 2026
Studying for a first analyst job.
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Portfolio projects that are not another Titanic notebook?
Every beginner portfolio I see has the same three datasets. What would you put in a portfolio if you were hiring? What makes you stop scrolling, in a good way?
Careers and learning#portfolio#projectsby samir_patel5 replies
My API client keeps getting 429 Too Many Requests. How should it retry?
I am loading a few thousand records from a public API in a loop and after a while every request returns 429. I added time.sleep(1) but it still happens. What is the correct way to…
QuestionAPIs and tools#api#retriesby samir_patel3 replies
I know Excel well but no SQL. What is a sensible order to learn things?
I can do pivot tables, lookups and conditional formatting without thinking. Every analyst job I look at asks for SQL, and I do not know where to start. I have a few hours a week…
QuestionQuestions and help#learning#sqlby samir_patel3 replies
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- Portfolio projects that are not another Titanic notebook?
Thank you all. I will reconcile two public sources of the same numbers and write about why they differ. That is a real question I actually…
- My API client keeps getting 429 Too Many Requests. How should it retry?
With Retry-After the loop finishes without a single failed request. I did not know the header existed.
- I know Excel well but no SQL. What is a sensible order to learn things?
That is a good test. I will rebuild my budget workbook as a few tables and queries. Thank you both.