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March 11, 2024 67 mins

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

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