Leaders of Analytics

Data Careers and Creating a Life You Don’t Need a Holiday From with Coert du Plessis

Jonas Christensen

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My guest in this episode is Coert du Plessis, an impressive data and analytics executive, entrepreneur and general lover of life.

Coert shares his wealth of knowledge and experience gained through a career and life full of interesting twists and turns.

In this wide-ranging conversation, we talk about:

  • Coert’s journey from South African farmland to Australian board rooms
  • How Coert became the CEO of MaxMine
  • Why our ability to tackle climate change depends on the mining industry
  • How to build and sell successful data products
  • Coert’s approach to building a fulfilling and rewarding career in data and analytics
  • The importance of taking risks and running life experiments, and much more.

Coert on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coertdup/

My new book, 'Data-Centric Machine Learning with Python': https://www.packtpub.com/product/data-centric-machine-learning-with-python/9781804618127