Walter Shields Data Academy

PwC just analyzed one billion job ads. Here is what they found about your career. Walter Shields I Help People Learn Data Analytics & AI - Simply | Best-Selling Author | LinkedIn Learning Instructor (526K+ Learners) June 15, 2026 PwC released its 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer this morning. One billion job advertisements.

What made you choose this work in the first place Walter Shields I Help People Learn Data Analytics & AI - Simply | Best-Selling Author | LinkedIn Learning Instructor (526K+ Learners) June 12, 2026 Every week I write about the skills, the tools, the market shifts, the habits that separate the analysts who thrive from the ones who plateau. But Frida

The question nobody asks before the meeting that would change everything Walter Shields I Help People Learn Data Analytics & AI - Simply | Best-Selling Author | LinkedIn Learning Instructor (526K+ Learners) June 11, 2026 I have been asking data professionals the same question for fifteen years. Most of them have never been asked it by anyone else.

The most valuable moment in your analytical workflow takes thirty seconds. Almost nobody takes it. Walter Shields I Help People Learn Data Analytics & AI - Simply | Best-Selling Author | LinkedIn Learning Instructor (526K+ Learners) June 10, 2026 There is a moment in every analytical workflow that separates the analyst who builds trust from the analyst who produces output. It happens before the f

More AI tools did not make you more productive. Here is what the research actually shows. Walter Shields I Help People Learn Data Analytics & AI - Simply | Best-Selling Author | LinkedIn Learning Instructor (526K+ Learners) June 9, 2026 Yesterday, Claude landed in Excel. Another powerful capability inside the tool most data analysts already use every day.

You opened Excel this morning and it was different. Here is what that actually means. Walter Shields I Help People Learn Data Analytics & AI - Simply | Best-Selling Author | LinkedIn Learning Instructor (526K+ Learners) June 8, 2026 This weekend, Microsoft and Anthropic put Claude inside Excel. Not as an add-in.

The work you did this week mattered. Here is how to know. Walter Shields I Help People Learn Data Analytics & AI - Simply | Best-Selling Author | LinkedIn Learning Instructor (526K+ Learners) June 5, 2026 Friday is the day I always think about the people who are in the middle of building something. Not the ones who have arrived.

The market does not have too many data analysts. It has too many certificates. Walter Shields I Help People Learn Data Analytics & AI - Simply | Best-Selling Author | LinkedIn Learning Instructor (526K+ Learners) June 4, 2026 I have been training data analysts for a long time. And the single most consistent thing I watch happen is not people failing to learn the technical skil

When the tool does it in seconds what took you an hour, here is what to do with that feeling Walter Shields I Help People Learn Data Analytics & AI - Simply | Best-Selling Author | LinkedIn Learning Instructor (526K+ Learners) June 3, 2026 I have trained over half a million people in data analytics. The feeling that most consistently stops people from becoming the analyst they are capable o

The math that should change how every data analyst reads their company's numbers Walter Shields I Help People Learn Data Analytics & AI - Simply | Best-Selling Author | LinkedIn Learning Instructor (526K+ Learners) June 2, 2026 Two economists from Wharton and Boston University published a peer-reviewed mathematical proof in March. Their conclusion in one sentence: "At the limit,