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Data Show and Tell: Analyzing Trends in Startups Backed by Y Combinator

Learn to analyze real-world startup data from Y Combinator using Amazon QuickSight. This course equips you to uncover industry trends, visualize patterns, and craft compelling, insight-driven dashboards.

Pawan Puthran - Pluralsight course - Data Show and Tell: Analyzing Trends in Startups Backed by Y Combinator
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Startups are shaping the future faster than ever, and understanding the trends behind their success is crucial for investors, entrepreneurs, and data professionals alike. In this course, Data Show and Tell: Analyzing Trends in Startups Backed by Y Combinator, you'll see how to transform a real-world dataset of Y Combinator-backed startups into interactive dashboards using Amazon QuickSight. First, you'll analyze industry focus, regional patterns, and founder backgrounds. Next, you'll uncover key trends like the dominance of AI, the rise of B2B models, and untapped sector opportunities. Finally, you’ll learn how to apply advanced visualization techniques, dynamic filtering, and ML-powered insights to tell a powerful story with data. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge needed to translate startup data into actionable insights using Amazon QuickSight.

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Pawan Puthran - Pluralsight course - Data Show and Tell: Analyzing Trends in Startups Backed by Y Combinator
Pawan Puthran

Pawan Puthran is a Serverless Specialist at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He specializes in AWS Serverless technology like AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS & AWS AppSync. He has been an AWS user since 2015 and has architected and implemented many scalable backend systems running on AWS. He also holds an expertise on Serverless Observability, Operations and helps his customers, build highly scalable, reliable, cost-effective cloud based applications.

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