#1984 - Data Scientist Profits from Viral Article
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
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🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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After her Medium article gains attention, a data scientist creates an online community and series of courses, resulting in a new source of reliable income.
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
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| 0:00.0 | There's an online writer I read. His name is Evan Armstrong. He recently went full-time. |
| 0:13.9 | We should probably feature him on the podcast at some point. But his newsletter or series of articles |
| 0:19.0 | is called Napkin Math and he monetized this business by selling subscriptions. |
| 0:24.4 | This is not an ad by the way I'm just a fan of Evan. I like his model a lot and for the right |
| 0:29.0 | person it still works very well. It is a model of independent writing. And so in today's story |
| 0:34.0 | you're going to hear another model of independent writing. It's all about a data scientist who is |
| 0:38.8 | a bit earlier in this journey. All right so when an article she publishes on medium gets a lot of |
| 0:44.6 | attention she takes it as a sign to dig in. She then goes on to create an online community and |
| 0:50.1 | series of courses resulting in a new source of monthly income. She's doing really well. Data |
| 0:55.6 | scientist profits from viral article. That's the story. My name is Chris Gillaboe. You're host |
| 0:59.6 | of Side Usal School and I'll bring you that story in just 30 seconds. Oh and here is the real sponsor |
| 1:05.3 | of this episode. |
| 1:14.5 | You remember March 2020? We all do. Just as the coronavirus pandemic began to surge around the world |
| 1:21.6 | Nicole Janeway bills began publishing articles on medium. As a data scientist she had a unique set |
| 1:28.0 | of skills that were becoming increasingly valuable for a variety of fields. These articles featured |
| 1:33.2 | both her detailed knowledge as well as her technical experience with programming languages like Python. |
| 1:39.0 | Then in August she published another post about the certified data management practitioner |
| 1:44.0 | fundamentals exam that goes by the acronym CDMP and Nicole called it the best data certificate |
| 1:50.6 | you've never heard of which I certainly hadn't heard of it just to be fair before this episode. |
| 1:55.0 | But the reason CDMP is so great is that it's an open book exam centered around learning the concepts |
| 2:00.6 | of data science not just memorizing a bunch of facts and not only that but receiving this certificate |
| 2:06.6 | bolsters the credibility of people who are new or old to the data management scene. |
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