The Data Villain

An essay about stress/burnout in tech and IT professionals and future professionals. Personal tips to combat these feelings. Burn Out in the Tech Industry Go on any campus and ask the students what are the hardest majors. You will definitely hear STEM, Business, and Law majors spewed out. As someone who had an integrated degree in business and computer science— I can definitely agree. Now, this is not to bash any other majors, however, there's a different level of stress for those who choose the "nerd life". Grueling work that takes immense brainpower with the stressors that come with working from home accompanied by general hustle culture is enough to make anyone insane. " Today the average American employee works 47 hours a week. That's almost one day longer than the normal 40-hour workweek. To make things even worse, 18% of full-time workers work 60+ hours a week."  Sandra Petrova,  Adeva .  61% of techies admit to feeling some sort of burnout according t...

Doja might've just did something! Superstar Doja Cat's first rise to fame was as a meme when her viral "MOOO!" swept the internet by storm in 2018. Since Doja has made quite the name for herself with the success of her second studio album, Hot Pink (2019). Once again being absorbed by social media. Finding a home TikTok as users rushed to go viral by making creative dances and trends with a majority of the album. I can admit I cannot listen to the whole album without recreating a TikTok dance, shout out to  "Say So"! In 2020 Doja released her third studio album Planet Her, met with amazing feedback. Planet Her is her most visually captivating body of works. Filled with playlist-worthy bops about relationships (and lack thereof). Our girl is noted as being ahead of her time. Well, she definitely proved that again this year! Doja Cat and Girls Who Code teamed up to give us the first codeable music video! Yes, you read that correctly.  I'll wait for you to ...

I am a bit biased when it comes to Python since it was my first love 😍. I first used my Sophomore year of high school doing small-scale projects like adventure games and tic-tac-toe to get our footing.  I'm going to be completely honest when I was younger covering computer science and engineering was the worst part of the curriculum. I was more interested in mechanical engineering and physics at the time, however, the college had other plans for me. It was so benign. One day it works, one day it doesn't. A period here and indent there. So meticulous and tedious! Since finding a newfound appreciation for it and relearning the program for automating and data projects, I would like to share why Python should be everyone's first programming language: Python this, Syntax that! One of the most daunting tasks of learning how to code is getting used to writing and reading something you have never seen before. Java, Python, HTML, C, and more are programming languages. You can't...

To  non-techies coding sounds like something for a beautiful mind to understand. Truth is most programming languages are pretty simple, but like most things in life it just take time and practice. Even the best Techies get errors from time to time. We all need to start somewhere so let's clear some things up: WTF is programming anyway? Great question. It's not a bunch of 1s and 0s (well not anymore), programming can be describe as instructions to accomplish a task on a computer.  Why are there so many programing language? Long story short different programming languages are made for different jobs. Though most languages can accomplish multiple jobs, one language can be way easier or take way less time to accomplish tasks. Which language should I start with? Well... that's dependent on what you plan on doing. Like stated before most of these languages have overlap and can be used for multiple tasks. This is how I would categorize them Website Development: HTML an...