Luke Barousse

Data Nerds! ⚠️⚠️⚠️ There’s a fake Gmail account - lukebarrousse@gmail.com - pretending to be me.

They’ve been messaging people about my courses and even offering fake “mentorship programs,” asking for $500 deposits or WhatsApp contact.

🙅🏼‍♂️ That’s NOT me.

I’ll never DM or email you privately to ask for money, deposits, or personal info.

All my legit links are only at 👉 LukeBarousse.com

If you get a message like this:
🚫 Don’t reply
🧾 Report it to Google here 👉 support.google.com/mail/contact/abuse

Shoutout to those who flagged this 🙌

Stay sharp out there; AI makes scams more convincing than ever, which is exactly why understanding how it works matters.

1 month ago | [YT] | 163

Luke Barousse

Data Nerds! Big update for my Hindi-speaking nerds 🇮🇳

YouTube doesn’t support long-video translations, so I got all my full courses translated into Hindi for you!

Now you can learn all these courses in Hindi:
📘 SQL for Data Analytics — https://youtu.be/7mz73uXD9DA
📗 Excel for Data Analytics — https://youtu.be/pCJ15nGFgVg
📙 Power BI for Data Analytics — https://youtu.be/FwjaHCVNBWA
🐍 Python for Data Analytics — https://youtu.be/wUSDVGivd-8
💾 Intermediate SQL for Analytics — https://youtu.be/QKIGsShyEsQ

I’d love your feedback on the translations; drop your thoughts here or in the video comments 🙌

P.S. To switch to Hindi in the video: Go to Settings → Audio track → Select “Hindi” 🎧🇮🇳

2 months ago | [YT] | 290

Luke Barousse

Data Nerds! Poll results are in, and my next course is:

🛠️ SQL for Data Engineering

Now, over the past year and a half, I’ve built out the core courses needed for Data Analysts:
🐘 SQL
❎ Excel
📊 Power BI
🐍 Python
💬 ChatGPT

I know, no Tableau or R… but I’ve always preached you only need one viz and programming tool.

With that, I'm ready to move on to something more advanced.

I learned when building my app, datanerd.tech, that data engineering is the key to getting the data you need when it’s not readily available.

For those unfamiliar, my app started as a request from my subscribers who wanted a source of truth on the top-requested skills in data job postings.

Over a few months, I built a daily pipeline that aggregates new postings and extracts the top skills into the app.

The analysis part? That was the easy side. 🤗

The hard part was building a pipeline to consistently get clean data. 🥵

And that’s exactly what I want to teach next: how to move beyond pure analysis into pipelines, structured data, and building systems that get you the data you need.

Like my other courses, it’ll be project-based, hands-on, and focused on real-world application… oh, and free.

Alright, time to get to building. 🤙

4 months ago | [YT] | 363

Luke Barousse

Data Nerds! Help me choose my next YouTube course 👇

4 months ago | [YT] | 226

Luke Barousse

Data Nerds! I just launched a FREE 5-Day Crash Course on Becoming a Data Analyst! 🤓

Breaking into data can feel overwhelming—too many skills, too many paths, and the classic “How do I get experience without a job?” dilemma. 😵‍💫

That’s why I built this step-by-step course to cut through the noise and get you job-ready, fast. Each day, we tackle a key challenge on your path to becoming a Data Analyst:
😨 Day 1 - Overcoming the Biggest Fears About Breaking Into Data
🧑‍💻 Day 2 - What Data Analysts Actually Do (And Common Myths)
🛠 Day 3 - The First Technical Skills You MUST Learn
🧠 Day 4 - 3 Secrets to Accelerate Your Learning
🗺️ Day 5 - My 3-Step Roadmap to Stand Out With Employers

It's completely free and sent straight to your inbox—because getting started in data shouldn't feel like guesswork.

10 months ago | [YT] | 304

Luke Barousse

Data Nerds! I'm creating a 5-day crash course for becoming a Data Analyst. 📊

Which topic sounds most useful for one of the days?

11 months ago | [YT] | 69

Luke Barousse

Data Nerds! I went on ‪@MavenAnalytics‬ podcast with my producer, Kelly Adams, to discuss everything about skills and jobs for data nerds! 🤓

Enjoy! 🤙

1 year ago | [YT] | 64

Luke Barousse

Data Nerds! Poll results are in, and the next course is:

🥉 Excel for Data Analytics (😳 …let me explain)

Python and Power BI both beat out Excel, so why are @KellyjAdamz and I ignoring this?
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📈 Reason # 1: Tool Demand

Here are the top skills demanded of Data Analysts according to job postings:
1️⃣ SQL (47%)
2️⃣ Excel (33%)
3️⃣ Python (31%)
4️⃣ Tableau (24%)
5️⃣ Power BI (20%)

Coincidently, my SQL and Python courses have performed proportionally to these percentages

Additionally, the job market is demanding Excel over these other skills, and… “the market always wins”
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🧠 Reason # 2: Learning Journey

When it comes to learning tools to become a Data Analyst, I’d recommend this general order:
SQL and Excel ➡️ Power BI or Tableau ➡️ Python or R

SQL and Excel are staples of any Data Analyst role, along with being relatively easy to learn (compared to programming languages)

So why are visualization tools before programming languages?

You can learn Power BI/Tableau in a weekend (at least I did); Python/R takes weeks, if not months, just to get the basics, so knock out the easier tool first.
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🧮 Reason # 3: Statistical Significance

So, Luke, you’re ignoring the poll results…

Well… not really

There is only a 200 vote difference (<2%) between the top 3 tools

Based on the amount of votes and the difference in the votes, the results are not statistically significant (p-value: .206)
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P.S. I used ChatGPT to combine the YT and LinkedIn polls by providing pictures of the poll results (it also calculated the p-value);
Curious about how I’ve done this? Check out my ChatGPT course.

1 year ago | [YT] | 509

Luke Barousse

Data Nerds! I'm looking for input on my next course 👇

P.S. Thanks for all the love on my recent "Python for Data Analytics" course 🫶

1 year ago | [YT] | 175

Luke Barousse

Data Nerds! New podcast up with ‪@KenJee_ds‬ 🎙️

We talk about the future of data, AI, and the channel!

2 years ago | [YT] | 32