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From Dental Cleaning to Data Cleaning: How I Pivoted to Healthcare Analytics

How a simple Google search led to SQL. SQL led to a new career. And that career led to teaching others on LinkedIn Learning.

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Oct 23, 2025
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Fellow Data Tinkerers,

I’m continuing the series where we hear from people working in data - how they got here, what they’ve learned and what their day-to-day really looks like.

Meet Thais Cooke who is a Senior Healthcare Data Analyst and writer of the Journal of a Data Analyst newsletter.

Journal of a Data Analyst
A journal-style newsletter exploring the data industry and careers - mixing insights, discussions, and practical knowledge.
By Thais Cooke

We talked about her unplanned pivot into data, what healthcare data analysis look like and how she thought she was being scammed by a LinkedIn ‘Impostor’.

So without further ado, let’s get into it!

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I am a data analyst specializing in healthcare. I write mostly about the human side of technology, AI, and data.
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