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New Page on Website

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I've been enjoying learning on DataCamp, which is good since I pay for it. So far, I've learned how to use Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Azure, theory behind Data Governance and how to use Git. Each lesson is about 2 - 5 minutes, with practice between, either answering questions, using a virtual machine to create things, or terminals to code. Every course is roughly 2 - 4 hours. At the end, they give you a nice PDF showing that you've done all the exercises.  I collected all of them and created PNGs of them all and grouped them per track and created a webpage for each on my site. http://www.lauraqjohnson.com/datacamp.html You can click through the tracks to see what courses are behind them and view the PDFs that I was given. I'll probably also add my thoughts in a week or two for each track and how I expect to use the technology or information. Looking at the plethora of PDFs now makes me think I need to write up something so I don't forget!

Week 1, Surge 4

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I did well for week 1. Completed all of the exercises, though I did need to push the Friday exercises over to Saturday. However, I did do Friday and Saturday's exercises all on Saturday which allowed me to do more work on Friday and Sunday. For fixing up my workout routine, I figured I would change to Copilot since I was running out of usage for the free tier of ChatGPT and our office gives everyone a Copilot license with 365. For a product that is supposed to be the same as ChatGPT, it just doesn't feel that way. I need to be a lot more strict and verify closer - not that I wouldn't verify what's coming back from ChatGPT, but it seemed to be easier to verify and quicker to the goal. Trying to get it to understand per day and per week in order to give me a workout schedule that incorporates all the exercises has been really maddening. For example, my PT suggested a tricep exercise to do 7 times per week (essentially daily) which I gave to Copilot. It gave me a workout s...