Hello. Hello. Oh Geez that got really bright. Can you guys see me? Hey everybody? Can you guys hear me? I'm going live. This is happening I don't know if you guys can hear me Perfect Seattle data guy you responded to me, and I appreciate that This broom is here for one reason and one reason only I Will be trimming this This beauty. I'll give it some type of Some type of monologue. I am sure because It's really been here for me these past couple weeks that I've been growing it and so Yeah, it's gonna be missed not by me it's kind of a hassle to eat with drink water with Just It's always goes like this and gets over my face and my lips and so I've got to go like this all the time Super annoying But my wife likes it and so I Told her I'd do it and I'm doing it So what are we gonna be doing tonight? first off we're celebrating the 100k That's super exciting I'll talk a little bit more about the Benoed rye That I probably butchered that but he said hello congrats on your promotion I'll be talking a little bit more about my new job, which I start next Monday, which is really exciting I do need a gellin hat absolutely agree. I mean I live in Texas. I live in Dallas, Texas. I Probably should have thought that through a little bit better So we'll I'll be answering questions Nothing super data analytics for analytics focused. I'm not gonna be answering like top skills stuff like that This is more like chill personal You know Not super heavy stuff But we'll be doing that. I'm gonna be trimming my beard. I have my clippers right here Who's this bullet? I think I got these at Walmart. I had that for like three years So that's what's kept this this thing in check And I will be announcing the winners. I already haven't pulled up Let me go check make sure you haven't pulled up. I haven't pulled up. I have all the names I got people from Saudi Arabia. The winners are from Saudi Arabia Turkey Canada, India Washington DC in the United States Colorado Springs in the United States India Pakistan and South Africa. So I mean Pretty much from everywhere in the world, which is really cool Or at least from like a lot of different sections. Hey, I see a lot of people Joining and saying hello. What's going on everybody? Hey Damon. What's going on? Cool cool cool. Yeah, I'm just reading through the child a little bit So it's gonna be a say I mean, this is gonna be super chill We're in my we're in my like this is where I actually record videos But what a lot of you guys don't know is this is like in my kitchen and so It's gonna be right over there. That's my kitchen. That's my living room right over there Back here is where like right over behind this door is where the garage is. Oh, this isn't focusing on me There it goes. Um, is where my garage is and then right around the corner over here is our laundry room and so it's pretty an exciting place, but This is where all the magic happens. I got my light over here super chill So let's get started with something because I'm just rambling at this point I'm gonna start with the winners of the giveaway and we already got like 60 people here I don't want to wait if they aren't here. That's okay because I will send them emails So if you are a winner fantastic, if you're not, thank you for for trying I had about I think it was like 800 people sign up for the giveaway and What were the prizes if you're curious eight people are gonna get free a free course from you to me they are I'm not sponsoring this live stream, but they're giving away stuff So I'm gonna give them a shout out Udemy's awesome. Go check them out So I'm gonna email those people who won the Who won the Udemy's? Course and Amy any course you want that's data analytics I have a whole page of data analyst courses and so they get to pick from that and choose anyone they want Two people will be winning a free one-on-one with me. I Do one-on-one mentorships. There's some people in the chat that I see that that you know a part of that and usually they have to pay for that because I help you know mentor and kind of You know review the resumes their portfolio projects all that stuff and You know, we're just gonna have a one-time session if you want me to review your resume We can do that your LinkedIn profile or just chat and and enjoy each other's company I feel like I should be looking up here, but I'm not I'm looking at myself So I feel bad about that, but it is what it is Um so With that being said because I hit the 100,000 mark already. I ended the I Ended the giveaway right so you can't answer it anymore. I'm sorry. I said there's people in here You know asking how to enter I already chose them. I already have a list of people and so I apologize if you didn't see that You know You got to check out my community posts more often because that is where it went so Let's get to the people who won. I am gonna pull it up Well, I'm not not like that not like that. I'm pulling it up on my screen Should have done this before I did not prep for this at all as you can tell Okay Okay, perfect. Here we go If I butcher these names I am not held liable in any way because I am terrible pronouncing Everyone's name and everyone gets my name wrong people think it's Alex Freberg It is not it's freeberg. It's just not The phonics or is that what it's called? It's not phonetically how it's supposed to sound, but it's freeberg and everyone thinks it's Freberg So I don't feel bad. I'm gonna butcher some names. So Here are the winners. I'm not gonna say what you won. I'll email you and tell you what you won You won something so that's exciting. The first person is Mohammed. I'll rabbi Dallara Fertina Chris can event caviar Rasu henir salvem Carson a KO Lisa that one. I know I didn't get right Dustin B. Odrynsky. That's a cool name Bavia Hansa Leah Suleiman Salim Abinand It's just no last name. Just Abinand and then John Jequose Smith I would say I didn't get any of those correct But I did my best, okay So if you heard your name Fantastic, you are a winner. I will send you an email telling you what you want and how to get that if it's the course I'll tell you how to get it for free.  We will set up a time to talk I'm going back to the Chat real quick Yes, I'm sorry, I did close I did close it those are the winners Yes, if you're a winner, I will I will post the complete list of courses Albert yeah, Freyberg. It's sad. Nobody nobody does it correctly. Hey, Melody. How's it going? Love seeing you here Varsha Thank you That and she said hey Alex Congrats on the new job Real quick before Before this bad boy goes away Which I mean I get I got to the point where I can like really curl it I had some I had some beard wax not beard wax. It's not even it's like beard. I'm saying oil And I kind of just put it in here. It makes it smell good And I can get some I can get some curly queues going and that's how I know it's gone too far to be honest Real quick same last time I doing today I was actually doing amazing the day before and yesterday and then today I felt like garbage and So I'm still not 100% I I'm just like going in waves of feeling good feeling bad But I'm pushing through for you guys. I definitely would have been in bed asleep already if if I had the choice, but I am too I'm too dedicated I'm sorry. I'm just too dedicated. So real quick. I want to tell you about this new job I got Because a lot of people have been messaging me asking me about it, you know saying congrats, which I really appreciate and So what this new job is is I currently and still am I start next Monday?  I My I think my wife was like hey just apply see what happens and I'm a big believer in that anyways I like to push myself, you know, try to You know shoot for the stars kind of thing if it happens it happens if not, it's no big deal and so, you know, they got me an interview and You know the position what they were looking for is someone who's good leader knows cloud Because they don't use that right now and This job is now in it. So it's on the it operation side of things So you can think about it's data like Tickets so people have issues they write a ticket online that gets The art IT support does that so they want to track, you know new Like a lot of new things they want to use have a lot of new data be able to track You know what tickets what issues are coming up the most? How quickly are they resolved? They want to they want to track a lot of new data And they want someone to lead that team to basically build that out and potentially migrate all of their data and all of their their KPIs and their visualizations all to Microsoft You know in the cloud and so That's what I'm gonna be doing. I think this is gonna be a long long long project It's gonna probably take Years two three years to get this all set up and that is that is the expectations. That's gonna be a long journey But it all starts here and on Monday. I hit the ground running. I've already got a meeting to talk about How we are going to determine whether we need to migrate to the cloud or not And so we'll start putting that on the place that starts Monday. So I'm really really excited It's a huge step forward for me It's all new everything new data. I have a whole team. I got to meet them. They're fantastic If they're watching right now, I already you know, you guys are great. I can already tell And so I'm super super excited. It's will be my first manager position in analytics And again, this is what I I mean I've been talking about this for years on the channel like this is where I've wanted to go This is what I wanted to do. I just You know, I thought I would take another maybe two years is kind of what I was expecting hopefully get a senior level position and then from a senior to to To this this position But you know, I was what they were looking for and they said they were interviewing other people which I don't know Sometimes I'm like were they or did they you know, just settle for me. I don't know But I like to think that you know, it was a good choice for the position. So that is the new job And yeah, we'll see how it goes. I'll be making I'm sure I'll update you guys on salary and You know Benefits of that position the kind of work that I do. I'll try to make another you know day in the life of An analytics manager kind of video. We'll see Okay, let me Let me Check the checks. I have I've just been talking to myself like I can see myself right now right here And so I've just been talking to myself But yeah, very cool stuff Good morning in India. Hey, good morning people in India. I didn't know it was the morning in India because it's nighttime. I get some 845 At night where I am excuse me Do I have next steps in mind after this Bruno great question. No, I don't But I do know that if I am really good at what I do and I like it that I could be a senior manager a Director CIO CEO, you know, that's only a few years away from you guys. I can feel it I'll be telling I'll be making videos in four or five years You know day in the life of a CEO at a fortune-telling company. We'll see Let's see Yeah, yep. Yep. Yeah. Congratulations. Thank you. I appreciate it. Okay Now is that I think this is the time to break out this bad boy This is emotional. It's very very emotional. I mean, I'm crying on the inside. I won't cry on the outside This mustache has been there for me for weeks Not very long, but the time that it has been there for me. It's It's really been there for me guys And I just wanted to say that this is not easy for me. This is like a friend. It's like cutting a friend It's like killing your best friend Like your puppy That got infected In iam legend. I mean, this is what it's like and it's gonna be really tough but we can do this together and Yeah, that's all I gotta say All right Now one one other thing I'm gonna need to use my phone for this. I don't have I again poor planning Um, I didn't I didn't put a mirror. Um, I didn't I should have had like one of those like poor old mirrors here I'm just gonna like, you know Just do that like really quick with the guard on Then I'm gonna take that off and do a little bit closer trimming. Um, and I'm gonna use my camera To be able to see myself This could go horribly wrong. I mean This might be something that's like in the blooper reel at the end of the year or something like that I really don't know. I've never done this before so All right Someone asked what's the giveaway? I already announced the winners like 10 minutes ago The winners were I already announced the names, but I'm gonna send them emails. So if yeah, it was you fantastic The winners will eight people win one free course from you to me from the page that I have That I've created that has all the courses that I recommend Then two people one are going to win Um, a one time session with me for one hour.  Let me kind of clear this area a little bit Because this is happening I said I do it. I'm gonna do it. I have the broom here to clean it up Jeez, I'm kind of close to this. Um, all right. Let's start. I'm gonna you actually actually I can use this I have a mirror right here. What am I doing? I don't even come Um, all right. Let's let's get this going All right, let's do this a little bit different This is much shorter. Oh my gosh That's a good look I don't um often publicly humiliate myself um But for the you know, 75 people or so people who are here. This is one of those moments Um, all right, let's go on because I don't want to look like this long I don't want people to take screenshots and post this on uh, my discord So Not bad. All right now So I have the guard on If you don't know what that does it kind of makes it a little longer. Oh geez. I look completely different You can you can see my mouth again um How do I look guys come on how do I look keep the middle part guys come on This is a family friendly show How do I like leave half of it? I'm Looking good. Thank you. Yeah, that's good. Perfect. I'm not leaving half of it. That'd be insane um Still looks great. That's what I need to know now Let me see if I can get close Now there's still these like right here This is I'm telling you this is uh, we're getting up close in person all day When I do that there's still these hairs right here that I'm gonna try to do with a mirror that I or Like on my screen right here. I can see myself I'm gonna try to get that This is the dangerous part. We'll see Geez What is that? Okay, I still look all right other side. I'm willing to do I don't want to go any closer I need a I need if I'm gonna do any more. I'm gonna need uh, like a mirror or something I think that's it. Um, I'll clean that up later I'll clean that up now. I don't want my wife to come down here and be like Why is there hair everywhere? Um, how does it look guys like be genuine? I feel I feel like a different person. Um, like you can see my smile again Uh, I feel I just feel feel good And honestly the mustache wasn't that bad, but I had to move it every time I ate Anytime I drank water Excuse me. I really needed that anytime I drank water Anytime I did like almost anything just wait. I'm gonna push some of this hair on the ground Because I'm gonna sweep it up in just a second. Um Five years younger. Thank you No shaving until 200k Carter, um, that is not gonna happen. I would have a Full beard um, which actually That's actually not a bad idea now that I think about it. Uh Hey, my mom's here. Hey mom I love you. Thanks for the support. I saw your post on uh, facebook means a lot That you're not too embarrassed at me. Okay. Um Yeah What's really really funny is I met with my my new team that I started with next week. I met with them early Uh in one of them said that they went back to their husband and said that I had a really nice mustache And her husband has a nice mustache. So, you know, we were joking about that I was like I was like now I feel bad Because I'm literally shaving it tomorrow. Um, and so If you're here and you're watching, uh, I'm supposed to do traumatizing But I will not look the same next week I just won't I'm gonna look like this It's not too bad It's I think it's funny that my mom's on here right now. It's like 10 o'clock your time mom You gotta get you gotta get to bed All right, let me clean this up really quick. Let me see if you can see much from my pants. Okay good You can't see them too much there.  Uh, we've got to get it all because um, oh my gosh There is a lot All right, well, let me move this chair a little bit actually I'm working hard here people. This is the high quality content that comes with a hundred thousand subscribers I mean, does it get better than this? Uh, me sweeping up my mustache hair. Can you hear me? I don't even know if you guys can hear me. Uh, I don't think that, um, I don't think it gets better than this I mean Kenji look look let me let me go around about Kenji real quick He had like 150k Livestream the other day. I joined it. It was okay. It wasn't this good. I'll tell you that much It was decent It was all right It was not that good. Oh, sorry guys wait Oh, jeez That's I shouldn't I should not have showed you that And that's it It's all done So it's me again. Um, I feel 10 years younger I feel better about myself. Um, my self esteem has risen A lot since since like two minutes five minutes ago um Let me go back to the to the jacks again. I get I get uh, I get very distracted Let me see Yeah, it's a ta classic. Yeah. Yeah, you know, I've been riding that that mustache train to to the 100k mark um And honestly that may this may be this may backfire a big time. I don't know if a lot of people knew All these new, you know 20,000 subscribers that we had since I started this mustache Even knew that I didn't that wasn't normal And so I feel like once they see that I don't have it anymore. I might lose a lot of people That's a genuine concern of mine You shouldn't have trimmed row hit row it row hit I apologize. I gotta be honest though. It It was annoying. Um I didn't I I can't eat with it without getting something on my mustache.  All right I'm not getting carried away over here.  Yeah, I like that show. So that's pretty funny Oh, hey Ken. What's up, buddy? I love your live stream the other day.  I won't that is not something that I do But some people do and don't feel ashamed. I don't want you to feel ashamed about yourself. I'm just not what I'm trying to do I promise you But some people would feel ashamed You may I don't know Anyways, where's max uh max is under here over Let me see if I can get him over here max. Come here Come here max Come here Ah, he doesn't want to come over here He's well. He's a kenji fan. Um, I think he's a little bit upset All right, whatever he's not coming He's gotten really big by the way I don't know if I don't remember the last time I showed him on in a video or In a stream or anything like that But he's full grown now. Um He's getting very wiry like his hair is wild. It's like I don't even know how to explain it. It's a very unique look. He's a very very unique looking dog. He's supposedly a a Doxon poodle mix He kind of has like the longness of a doxon, but his hair is not like a poodle at all Um, benjamin I see your comment because you donated some money. Thank you very much. I really appreciate that Uh, I will answer your question because you did that Um, is vba experience useful jr. D data analyst jobs caggle Sure vba can definitely be useful. Um depends on the job like if it's in some if it's in a job description, of course I don't see the ton You know, again, I was just applying for jobs the past two three months. I didn't see it a bunch But it definitely is not a bad skill to have. Um, caggle. Yeah, go on caggle. Um You can learn a ton from there. Although I don't think a lot of the machine learning stuff is going to be extremely useful to you but You know, I think caggle is a great place to learn. In fact, they have a really really really good free data analytics Like a course in there and it is it's kind of difficult. I did it I did that like two years ago. So maybe they updated it But it was really cool and I learned a lot of uh, I believe it was python is what I was using in there so, um I would highly recommend going on caggle and checking out that course. Um, I might make like a video on that It was really good. Um, really difficult at the time for me because I didn't know python that well Now that I know python, I should go back to it and see if I actually think it's um Think it's hard anymore. Um Selectron mustache from face rest in peace um Let's see Benjamin, thanks buddy Glad you're feeling better. Hey, thank you. I appreciate it and I was saying at the beginning For the like the past two days I've been feeling amazing like like top of the world. In fact, I should have been I should have taken some medicine late. Um, and then just today I'm feeling like garbage again. Um, but this one's more of like a stomach bug kind of thing This isn't what I had earlier. So I'm just catching everything that's going through um Everything that's going through my house Uh now, okay, so look I've accomplished everything I was going to accomplish on this stream now We're just going to go to the chat um and hang out and chill for a little bit But I announced the winners. So if you have if you joined after that, I announced the winners I will send everyone who won emails of what you want and how to redeem it I trim my mustache if you can tell Geez, I feel so weird doing this It is gone. Um It's I think it's a better look honestly I did I I enjoyed it though a lot of people commented it on commented on it In my videos and so I might bring it back just for the fact that um You know Just pulls the people in It's a crowd favorite. I don't know what to say um No, it was not in our the Kaggle stuff was not in our I don't believe in our Uh, and then so I see some more Uh more questions. Let me skin through them Hey Alex, I just want to say thank you for all your fantastic content You put out I went through your sequel tutorials and then a project series before applying for jobs I think that's fantastic. Um The the sequel stuff that I put out is I think a really good place to start then the projects I think are um genuinely just a really good place to have some basic To intermediate level projects to put on your portfolio. I think you should go above and beyond that Um, you know, but that's like that's like a really good place to start I think um, and I went back and watched them since I made them like, you know, a couple months ago And I was like man, these are this is an excellent quality. I would absolutely subscribe Um I just landed my first job in data analytics. Hey Congratulations, that's fantastic. Um, you're able to show your covet dashboard during the technical interview That's amazing. That's I mean, that's huge Um, love your channel. Thank you wait. Is there an alexa analyst website? No, there's no website. Um, I have um I have a partnership with you to me who Is giving away free courses in this giveaway I have a partnership with you to me and I have a whole page of all the courses that I recommend that I have taken I really like and I recommend just this page of lots of courses Which you know Courses are fantastic. Don't take too many of them. Don't take everyone on my list. Don't do that Uh, I was the guinea pig. I I did the trial and error to learn what to learn and what not to learn And and where to spend your time. So and if you haven't watched that video, it's you know, stop taking courses or something like that You know, there's a reason why You know, you should take courses and there's also a reason why you should stop taking courses So look into that Kenji says eyebrows are next. Um, no That won't be happening At all The mustache was sick evan. Hey evan, is that you? You just messaged me, uh, not too long ago Uh, the mustache was sick. It was It is gone. I appreciate you joining Yeah, one of my good friends for a long time ago Um, it does look better this way. I agree. You can see my smile. Um, that's an award-winning smile That's what my mom says. Um, and so and if you guys if you guys just joined my mom was on here earlier That's why I'm saying that not because that's something I normally say I feel I felt weird after I said that so I needed to justify it. Um, what was the name of the Kaggle course?  It's really great Um, to hoon bob bake so congrats 100k man. Thank you. I appreciate you coming to say that It's really nice of you. Um, I'm graduating with a degree in econ. Okay. So jar education 98 says I'm I'm graduating with a Degree in economics next spring. I want to create analytics. Do you think that an economics degree can be good? Yes, absolutely much better than my degree. Um, much better I mean by a lot I would say that, um An economics degree can be really good in like finance or like banking or things like that an economics degree is Is good. Um much better than a lot of other degrees like mine. Um, and so yeah, I think it is a good one Uh, what would I what advice would I give is, you know, do projects on economics and then find a job that's economics focused You know, use that domain knowledge and that degree that you have to your abilities I mean mine's in rec therapy, but it's in health care And so I focused on health care and I'm still in health care. Um, my company's still health care So, you know, I use that's my advantage even though I had no experience in it So that's what I would do python or are python all the way. Come on guys watch the channel um, let's see something about Humble brag james I james andrew wait a second. Are you the james andrew my james andrew? Because if you are thank you for joining man, and if you're some other james andrew that I don't actually know in real life, uh You remind me of a guy that I know in real life who's super cool um, and so You may not be that that guy, but there's a james andrew that I know who's a cool guy Um, congrats on the trim the 100k. Thank you. I appreciate it Um, I'm skimming. I'm skimming. I'm skimming Uh, it says are you familiar with the toronto job market? No I don't know the canada job market at all. I know it's not as I believe it's not as good as the united states job market That's just what I I have heard Um, hey alex I landed my first data analyst job today. Thanks to you and can't why Why you couldn't show us a ken in my my live stream? All right. Well, I'm serious. Congrats though. That's really exciting. Um, but I think I to be honest, I Um It's kind of gone because I want to stop. I want to stop. Um I want to stop hazing him or making fun of him. I'm not hazing him. That's that's a bit much Uh, but anyways, uh past my bedtime here on the east coast. Congrats seen the way Thank you. Thanks for coming huge support. Love you, man. Take it easy. Get some good rest sweet dreams. Um I got asked in a Bruno said I got asked in an interview. What's the first thing you do when analyzing data? How'd to answer this one? That's a really good question What's the first thing that I do? Um, I typically do some Export well, okay. Let's start from like the very beginning. Where is this data coming from? How are they collecting that data? Um, you know, that's super super important. A lot of people don't take that into consideration like where is this data coming from? Is it is it good data? Is it you know? Data that you need After that though, which you know, you may or may not need to be asking those questions Um, I do for my job the So this cat is obsessed with me. Um Like legitimately follows me around all the time This is charlie by the way or charlotte by color charlie Um, I'll get to more questions in just a second, but this cat follows me around everywhere I sit down for two seconds and she will be on my lap. Um Not Yeah, you have a good night. Um But then I look at I started doing just some Exploration like what's the what does the data consist of is there patient data? What are the patient identifiers as there is their consumer? You know, are there prices, you know, how are the prices calculated, you know I do a lot of exploratory data analysis is what I would say just kind of diving into the data Running counts. So, you know basic stuff Um power bi or tableau, which one do you prefer? I prefer tableau, but I like both Um, that's that's just honest. Um jahoon bob bake I recognize that name now because he was chatting earlier in here. He donated a little bit of money I will read out his, uh Chat to all of you. He said congrats 100k senior data analysts here. Wow, that's awesome Uh, I would say no one describes the job better than you. Good luck and congrats once again Thank you so much. That means a lot. Um, and congrats on your success. I mean senior data analysts. That's fantastic Um Link on why you should not take any course. You just go to my youtube channel. You'll find it. I promise. Um Let's see was your 2020 resume video similar in style to the resumes in your new job Really good question. Um Very similar. Um, I still like the style and the format and everything that I had in my resume Back in that video that caught me in my job that I have done currently in not the one that I started on monday that I'm currently in And I updated it updated the language updated the job descriptions and everything But I kept the exact same format. I like that format. I like how it looks Um, my mom's still here. I don't remember what I said mom, but um You said do I I don't remember what I said. I apologize. Just text me Um, because I don't remember what I said to be honest Amy said, uh, your videos have helped guide me in transition from teaching into data analytics over the past year That's fantastic. I hope we got that data analyst job Gotta keep mom happy steven. You know, you know what that? Um, yeah, and that's That's a very true. That's very true What about an unfinished degree or no degree jad ozzy? I got a little burrowing nose you guys I'm really sorry. I feel like I've been touching my nose a lot Um, congrats. Oh, uh unfinished degree or no degree. It's very similar to if you have a degree Except you just don't have a degree Which is uh, it is a benefit. Absolutely. But can people become data analysts without a degree 100% Um, I'm I just work with somebody who only has And you know who you are. I've been working mentoring somebody who only has their high school diploma Just got a data analyst job and then been in the job for like three months. So it's 100% possible.  Uh I guess maybe she doesn't I thought you did mom Uh, that was That was soul crushing because I don't I think what she's implying is that she doesn't say that so That was tough. That was really tough. Um, but it's the same thing. Um, you know, I have a video on how do you become a data analyst with No experience. That is the exact advice that I would give you. So I would check out that video Congratulations promotion to management. William. Thank you very much. Um, another alex Let's see see what this this alex uh wants to know What are your thoughts on it people transitioning to data science? Would data engineering be a good feel? um For sure data engineering is um, I would say Excuse me very geared towards what data Scientists do like a data scientist is somewhere in between a data analyst data engineer Somewhere in there, right? because data engineering is is doing a lot of back end database stuff creating, you know, etl pipelines creating schemas for databases um automating things Pulling data from from places and that's really good to know when you're a data scientist. So I definitely think it is Um, so I'm gonna go maybe 10 more minutes. I have a lot of questions. I'm falling behind I'm gonna start skimming them.  So if I just give them yours, I'm sorry um Let's see. Let me see. Let me see. Let me see So my friend Evan, he said it's me buddy. I was telling my wife tonight You were going to make me want to start a youtube channel. Hey do it. I absolutely think you should do it You have a good personality for it as well. Um So I would recommend it Uh, and it took me like, you know, a lot of people ask me how you know How long does it take to really do it? You know this at the end of this year I think I was at like 25 or 30,000 it took me about a year to get to 30,000 and then it took me Eight months to get to a hundred thousand. Uh, and so I'm by the end of the year I'm hoping to maybe even hit 150 That would be insane, but it takes a long time. It's a lot of dedication It's a lot of consistency, especially when I really first started out It took me six months to get like a thousand subscribers. Uh, it took me a long time Um, and so it's it's a hustle man. It is a hustle, but it's a fun. It's if you enjoy, it's really fun Um Okay, I'm just skimming skimming questions again keep keep chatting them keep posting them I'll get to it. I promise I got about 10 more minutes or so You know, I don't want to go too long but hours hours plenty of time to watch me trim my mustache and answer questions Um Okay, so roby it sounds like you reached out personally and I gave you some uh, some good insights I'm glad to hear that. Uh, I I'm sure if I Went through my email. I remember you I promise I I recognize the name. I just don't remember what advice I gave you To be honest and Ken said still here ahead of the bed now Thanks for coming man. You're an inspiration Uh, not mine, but you are an inspiration to some I really appreciate you coming out Bruno. Oh, yeah the cat. I'm just catching up to that on the video. Yeah, I have two cats That's charlie. She's very she's not shy at all. She's she's obsessed with me My other cat's name is Cindy And she is like will avoid everybody like the plague very very very to herself Until she wants your love and affection and then she'll do that and you guys know max Well max wanted to blanket. He wasn't where I just left him Um, what am I doing in my new job? I'm going to be a manager of operational analytics and intelligence. What does that mean? Um, I I went through it earlier, but I'll quickly it's you know, I'm going to be building out um, maybe helping um build out a new potentially a new system in the cloud to collect data Drive new kpis for our it and operation side of things So I'm no longer on the healthcare focused as much. I'm more in it operations now But I start that next monday Um, let's see Redo questions Bum bum bum I'm still reading Tiffany said hi, alex. Do you offer a consulting service and mentoring appointments that I could invest in? I do um, and here's the thing about it is because I have a full-time job I do youtube and I do Mentoring um, which I you can find in the description of almost any of my videos. It's called patreon Um, I offer that and I think I think I like to think it's at a quite a low cost I know other people who do something similar who charge three or four times what I charge The issue with it is is that I have a very low Band width right now to accept people so I'm working with maybe like eight people um, but I have a wait list of like 40 people um or 50 people and a lot of people You know, they don't want to wait. It could be months Honestly, I work with some people For for for months until they get a job or even after they've gotten a job that when I've worked with them They still just want to be on just to you know chat and talk about their job and and kind of follow up And so I mean there have been times where I someone at the top of the list has waited like three extra months And so a lot of people don't have the time for that In the future, I'm hoping that I can expand that And take on more people. Um, I'm you know, maybe like 15 people a month But again, it's it's very it's time consuming. Um, I you know, so Take that into consideration, but send me an email. I'll put you on the waiting list. I promise I just you know, I don't like wasting people's time and I don't want to give you false hope that I can sign you up right now My mom said good night, honey. Love you.  I love you too, mom You're the best and I won't I will not do that. I will not stay up too late um Let's see Where I just lost I just love. Oh, okay. There we go Never mind link is not working. Oh Sorry about that. I don't know what link you're talking about that. Um and Evan I'm glad you I'm glad just I'm glad you're staying up staying up late for this one I know you're I think you're on the east coast so it's probably like 10 15 for you But you said we need david on a video one of these days. He's the man Absolutely agree. Um, he was on a video Asking my family like what I do for a living Um, but he was only there in voice and I put his picture like down at the bottom So he did make an appearance in a video, but he wasn't like a live video But I I can bring him on I'll bring him on one of these days When I'm like when I'm like with him in person. I keep losing my place. Where am I? um Mr. Pseudo macho cool name What's your opinion on self study hours if you had unlimited time? How many per day per week on one topic or many? Um, I've gone over that a quite a bit, but I'll I'll do it a little just Briefly on that is I think that if you can make that is your full-time job And you do not currently have a job and that is what you were doing Do it five hours a day, right? You know five six seven however many you can handle Focus on one skill for like a week do some projects at the end of that week move on to the next skill I don't know why I did that noise, but um, you know I used to do four hours a night on sequel And that took me like three months to learn it should not take anybody three months to learn if you take my tutorials They that will teach you how to do it in a couple days or a week. Um, Yeah, I just I didn't know what I was doing. Um, and so I try to teach you faster um, let's see Any cool place to learn tableau quick. I mean just go to tableau.com They have a lot of free resources. You can also go on youtube. I learned a lot of stuff from youtube I plan on making my own tableau courses coming up very soon. I'm gonna do an intermediate Or beginner intermediate advanced just like I did sequel. This will be a much shorter Um tutorials because I there aren't as many things to go in Uh in in tableau, but I will be making my own but I would just recommend youtube Um, how do how do I have a keep a work life balance? Really good question. Um, I've been really really really busy lately Um, the youtube stuff has been you know, taking off and my work has been getting more Um, and you know, I have a family. I have three kids. I have a wife How do I balance it? Um, I'm a really good schedule. I have a really supportive wife and you know, I I I think my time management skills And just stretching myself in terms of the hours and doing what I'm awake I've really had to stretch myself.  I'll probably stay up until 11 12 tonight Working after this because I still have a job until friday and then I started a new job on monday. I mean Um, excuse me. It's You know, you just got to really make use of every time all the time. I don't sit down much and just relax Um, I do every so often not much though. Um, I I have a lot of things in my head and I'm like, I gotta do this I gotta do this I gotta do this when the kids taking out. I know what things I'm gonna get done Um, so it's really just utilizing as much time as you can. That's what I do at least Have you ever worked with alterex? What are your thoughts? Um, I don't even know if I'm supposed to share this This might be I don't know if this is private information or not. I am partnering up with alterex. Um, yes, I have used them. Yes, I know them Fantastic fantastic company. I'm gonna be leading. Um, they're a webinar Interviewing like I'm gonna be the host of the the webinar. I'm gonna be Bringing in three or four analysts. Um, just from different backgrounds and interviewing them Uh, and so Yeah, I love alterex. I think they're they're awesome. You guys should check them out I think that I genuinely think they are really big. I mean, they're already here, but they're an up and coming company They're not as big as like, you know Tableau or or some of these other big companies that are already really established But they are a big company and they're growing a lot And definitely a skill that I have started to recommend to people to learn Um, hi, Alex, one of the videos you're playing for next month You had mentioned about the web scraping project and the visualizations ones. Yes the web scraping project I'm almost done with I have a pull-up right here. I'm not gonna show it to you I don't know how to show it to you to be honest But it is almost done. Um, I the reason why it's taking longer is because I I finished the first way to To scrape the data from amazon and then I was like wait Here's another way that people might also want to see so then I had to research it because it's kind of a different Different way than I've done before so then I I I'm doing it in two ways So in the video, I'll show you two ways how to scrape data from amazon And get that and have that as a data set to use for projects and stuff And so it's just taking longer because I Invested more time in it than I originally had intended And I was sick and so I just Didn't get to work on it as much as I wanted How do I deal with imposter syndrome? Oh man I mean, I'm about to start a manager position You know Imposter syndrome is still there I really is and I know my skill level. I know what my strengths are and I know why they hired me I really do because I Made sure when I was in that interview I said look these are the areas that I I lack in This was one of those The interview the interview for this management job was one of the most unique Interviews I've ever had in my life I will I'm going to make a whole video on it because it was just so unique But they basically were like we want you because we know who you are You're really good at what you do, you know, we we we know you are an internal candidate We want you and I almost was like, whoa, are you sure you know me? Like do you really really know me? Because you know, here are some areas that I lack and they're like we know that it's okay We want you for these skills these leadership skills these these technical skills your cloud your cloud skills That's what we want you for and I was like, all right Yeah, you're sure You know, so I was almost they were almost like they were they were convincing me to take the job kind of thing It was really weird But I still have that imposter syndrome Especially now more than ever not now more than ever But I have that a little bit right now because This is a big step up In terms of responsibility. I'll be leading. I'm going to be leading a team which I've never done before I know myself well enough to know that I'm going to work As hard as I possibly can to be the best I possibly can be and I think they know that So, you know, how do you get rid of it though is just to go out there and work really hard I'm going to spend lots of times researching new these new things that I'm going to be working on I'm going to spend countless hours just Making sure I know everything I need to know That's how I get over it at least Tiffany Gave two dollars. Thank you. I appreciate it She asks, hi Alex. Do you offer mentor services? How yes, I do offer mentoring services If you click the link, I believe in the description even of this one It should be called patreon You can go there if you just want to Donate money and say, hey, thanks for all the hard work But if you go to the top tier, I think it's like the director of data analytics That is my mentoring level or like tier whatever you want to call it It's currently full and if you want to be on that send me an email I think I have my email like my about section if you go to my like youtube page go to the about section I think I have my email there just message me say you want to be on the waitlist and I will put you on the waitlist I know message you when a spot is available What happened to the mustache? You missed it Tiger pinch of the poor Pange of banned poor What happened to mustache? It's gone. I just trimmed it With this bad boy about 30 minutes ago. No, jeez. It was almost an hour ago We got five minutes left guys five minutes and then I'm I got some work to do But it is gone. So Yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, are you guys using docker? No, we don't use docker Congratulations on your new job. Thank you Uh, cool. Cool. Congrats your new job. How much statistics in data analytics do you do compared to a statistician? I don't do as much Statistics as a statistician that is a tongue to a show. Oh my gosh. I work with a few statisticians you know on our data science team and They do a lot more math than I do I do math we do calculations and you know formulas and all that good stuff But not as much as a statistician Um free code camp is a good source. Yes, it is. I would agree Um, how good should your sequel be to be an upper-level analyst? I mean, I would no start procedures or at least have it write basic ones or be able to debug them. No Window functions. Um, all the joins that's pretty basic. Um You know stuff like that. That's what I know. Okay. I'm starting to catch up. I'm almost there I'm trying to skim some I'm trying to catch up. We got five minutes left. I'm not I'm not the I'm not the end Um, can we expect you to ever make your own Udemy course? Yeah, maybe I Yes, and no, I definitely plan on doing it at some point, but I want to make all the free ones first I want to make the tableau power di python excel courses on my youtube channel first because I want everyone to be able to access them for free first Um, and then maybe after that I'll do um a paid course on like something I enjoy um I'm catching up. I'm kind of seeing if there's any other questions A lot of talking um out of curiosity curiosity what team is the pwc role that you turned down I'm currently working at pwc as a senior analyst myself in data analytics. This is on their pharmaceutical team um, and so I met with a senior manager a senior manager and then I believe those two directors that I met that I interviewed with um, and You know again, there's a lot it was going to be a little bit more traveling than I would have preferred and uh, I've heard the work life balances and is good and this position that I got now is better It just is um for me at least it is just better and I'll go into that in separate videos. I promise Um, yes winners have already been selected emails will go out. I appreciate it if you um Tried to try to win you entered and everything. I really appreciate that You've been leading 100k plus people alex. You can do 100 percent. Is it the quality or Trim the stash Is it the quality? I are did you trim the stash? Yes. I trim my stash and thank you. I mean, hey a hundred thousand people That's that's not in the scot. That's a lot of people. Um, but I'm trying. I mean let's take this to a million guys I mean doesn't have to be any time soon, but it'd be great um Up with a three month old. Oh, yeah Yeah, my friend Evan again. He's saying up with a three month old. I'll be up for quite a while Well, I wish I'd I wish I could stay up with you.  They sleep much better now. I mean the other night They didn't wake up at all and it was the best feeling in the world. So no, I don't I don't miss that three month phase Not in the slightest. I feel bad for you But, you know It's all part of going through that, you know, it's going through you got to you got to do what you got to do with kids So um sequel versus pandas both at both have their place I know both I use both. Um, I don't think one is better than the other um How to practice sequel joins and sub queries go check out my videos I have videos on both of those you can practice them in those videos David enjoyed the live stream. Thank you. Get well soon. Alex. Thank you. Damon. I appreciate you. I will talk with you soon I am sure of it um Valentines said hey, Alex. I just wanted to say you seem like a really good guy. I'm okay. I have my good days I'm at bad days mostly good though. I like to think Uh, great live stream all the best. Yes, I got like one minute guys and then I'm headed out I got worked to these nights. So um Hey, Alex. I sent an email a few months ago and thanks for applying. I got a database job this week. Thanks Thank you to you. That is fantastic, Mitchell. Congratulations. I don't know what I said I don't know what I don't know if I made any impact. But if I did, um, that's fantastic. I'm really proud of you um I celebrate with my wife when our kids are able to sleep through the night too awesome. Best yet. It's a really awesome feeling Um, really really good feeling All right guys, um, I see people are still In the chat, but um, I am about to sign off You guys are fantastic. I mean, I would not be here doing this And doing, you know, what I genuinely love I I Is become a passion of mine to make videos and to chat with you and to You know do all these cool things that I get to do and and have Literally a hundred thousand people Have access to watch it and want to watch it.  I really wouldn't and it means a lot It just means it means a ton. I I really never imagined That this would happen and it's changed my life. Like you guys don't even know You know, it's just changed my life completely and it's hard to describe because it's just Changed a lot of things But you know, thank you Thank you to everybody And I know there have been hundreds of people who have flowed through here throughout the video And so, you know, I appreciate you guys and I appreciate Everything that you guys have done for me. I I know you guys always tell me that, you know, I've helped you But I promise you you guys have helped me just as much And so thank you. I probably have a little bit more cleaning to do so I'm gonna do that I'm gonna rearrange all the all this stuff out here But you guys are fantastic melody. Thank you for the for the donation. That was really really nice. You So with that being said, I am out of here You guys have a good night or good morning in india. Apparently it's morning in india But I have work to do and then I'm going to sleep So thank you guys. Have a good night or morning And I will see you in the next video probably next tuesday. All right. Bye everybody


Hello there! So I like to make things and build projects. I basically spent all my time doing this stuff. And when it's ready I share everything online for free. Like foamlocks was an idea which I shared openly and gave away to the public. And we've been working for two years on precious plastic, developing machines and making detailed instruction videos. Which in the end everyone can just watch and download. Literally everything about these projects is free. I don't make any money of them. In fact they cost me money. They do generate some dollar from YouTube and every now and then we got a few wonderful donations. Thank you very much for that. However the investments are much higher.  I don't know, it's just more fun. Maybe I should though, my mom gets a bit worried. Nah, I like to think you can get somewhere without making the big bucks. The world can be a nice place and every now and then you get a gift back. Like this email that made my day. Hey Dave, want to come to our five-star resort to talk about sustainability and enjoy a ten-day holiday in the Maledives? Are you kidding me? A five-star resort in the middle of the Maledives?  You know that feeling when you see a picture of something and then you see it in real life and it doesn't look like that at all and you realize it's probably just photoshopped? This isn't like that at all. This is truly beautiful. It's like being in the middle of a screensaver with the widest beaches I've ever seen. We have Mangosteen for breakfast, an unlimited amount of ice cream, a glass bathtub with ocean view from all sides. Yeah, not sure why but it's interesting and funny fishes that try to eat your nipples. But it's hard to show you everything. So I met this drone guy here and we're going to show you the island. I love it when the world is nice. Thanks.


Hello everyone and welcome to Blackstar Potential. My name is Lee Fuge and in this video today I'm going to be showing you four tips on how you can use reverb.  So everyone that's watching this video will have experienced natural reverb at some point in their life.  That is natural reverb. Now when we play guitar our guitar sound is inherently dry so the guitar itself does not produce any reverb. So what we can do as guitar players is we can add reverb later on in the signal chain. We can do this either as an effect in our signal chain or as something we add later on let's say we're recording an album. We might want to add some reverb in post-production while mixing the album to give the instruments a sense of space. So we're creating a fake sense of space. Now with reverb there are loads of different types of reverb depending on what type of space we want to create some of which can be models of physical spaces like rooms or halls and then we also have other types of reverb like spring reverb that you often hear in vintage guitar amps or plate reverb that was really popular in the 1980s studio musician scene. So in this video I'm going to show you four of my favorite ways to use reverb. Now all the reverbs that we're going to be hearing are coming from the Blackstar Amp2 so everything you're hearing is coming from this unit. You can take these principles and port them into other Blackstar products as well but we're going to be using all three modes of the reverb that are built into the Amp2. So the gear I'm using in this video is my Chapman guitars ML3 traditional and that's plugged straight into the Amp2. Everything you're hearing is going to come from the Amp2 and that's going via the XLR output. I'm using cab rig and that's going straight into my audio interface. So the first method that I'm going to show you is using a room reverb to add some space to a clean tone. Now I've dialed in a really simple American clean tone. So the American voice that I've got dialed in is using the 6L6 response and the USA voice here. The gain is set to just about one o'clock but we're not really pushing any gain out here this is pretty much a clean sound. Got the bass just above midnight the mid is scooped back to about 10 o'clock and the treble is just a little lift up to about two o'clock and then obviously the master control you can set to taste depending on how loud you want to actually be. So my basic clean tone using those EQ settings sounds like this. So you can hear that is totally dry there's no reverb whatsoever even if I'm playing something quite choppy and funky it's very very immediate and it cuts off instantly. So I'm going to be using a room reverb I've got the time and level set straight up at 12 o'clock. I'm going to be using some slightly more extreme reverb settings in this video so you can hear what they're doing but in your own setup you might want to dial these back a little bit to blend in with your overall tone. So the room mode is going to add an emulation of a room. So what we're going to hear is not that dry direct guitar signal we're going to hear an emulation of a speaker inside a room and that's where we start to hear natural reverb because even in a room this size I have natural reverb even though it's not that audible because I've got acoustic treatment when I hear a speaker in this room I'm still hearing the sound bouncing off different walls and that is natural reverb. So this is going to add some space to my clean tone which is going to sound like this. Now you can hear that reverb tail off there at the end especially when I play something choppy we've got that tail that's the reverb if I play something funky it's going to sound less direct. So even just with that amount of reverb we can hear the space that it adds. The second thing I'm going to show you is how to use a spring reverb to add an amplifier-like reverb sound to a crunchy blues rock tone. So I've now got the drive turned on on the drive mode the drive knob is about 10 o'clock and I've got the level boosted to just under two o'clock so we're pushing the amp here with a low gain overdrive which sounds like this. So that's incredibly dry I'm going to use the spring reverb here to simulate a spring reverb tank in a tube amplifier. So I've got the time at about half where you can obviously adjust this to taste depending on how long you want your reverb tail to go on for and the level I've got to just over 10 o'clock because that's where we get a nice blend between the drive signal and the reverb signal. You can dial it back if you want it to be a bit more subtle and if you want more spring you can crank that level up a bit more. Here's how it sounds with the spring reverb. So that's quite reminiscent of old tube amps that have spring reverb tanks because we get that nice push from the drive but then that spongy kind of reverb that you get from a real spring. The third thing I'm going to show you is how to use a big spacious sounding plate reverb for a really full and lush sounding lead guitar tone. So I've now got the drive pushed a bit more so we're up at about four o'clock here we're nearly on full and I kept the level about the same because we just want to push the front of the amp with quite a lot of saturation. Now here's how my lead tone sounds completely dry. Now personally I love lead guitar tones that are absolutely soaked in reverb so I'm using the plate reverb here and you can see I've got the time and level set to about two o'clock. Now what this is going to do is this is going to give me a lot of space around those notes. Now for me personally I love 80s rock guitar tones and this is very reminiscent of an 80s style guitar solo tone because this is going to be very spacious and every note is going to sound quite big. It's going to sound like this with the reverb on. So you can see how that adds a ton of space to that lead tone. Now like I said I like those lead tones that are quite extreme with the reverb settings. If you are not as much of a fan of those big spacious lead tones as I am you could use the same principle but dial back the reverb slightly. And the final thing I'm going to show you is how to create a very ambient and kind of fake shimmer reverb sound using the Amped 2. So I've now gone back to my completely clean sound and I'm going to be playing a simple chord pattern and what I want to do is I want to create an ambient sound for this chord pattern. So the pattern I'm going to be playing is something like this. Now once again that's completely dry so on its own that has no real character or ambience of its own. Now I'm going to be using the plate reverb with everything frank so the time and the level are set to full and also going to be using the delay here in the shimmer setting. Now what I've done is I've got the time set quite low so maybe like just above 9 o'clock between 9 and 10 o'clock and the feedback just over halfway and the level on 2 o'clock. Now I'm blending this in so you can't really hear the delay as such. You can't hear this as a delay effect. What I'm doing is I'm tagging on the shimmer effect of the delay with a very very short repeat. So my repeats on the delay are just this. It's almost like a slapback delay but if you hold a note you get that shimmer tail but you don't get the delay like if I turn the time up I get more of the delay repeat there. What I want is just this even shorter than that like a slapback because it's that shimmer tail that I'm interested in. Now I'm going to turn on the plate reverb which if you hear that in isolation is like this. It goes on for quite a while. I'm going to combine the delay with that shimmer tail with the reverb and that's going to give me this. So that created a nice ambient almost pad-like effect so pairing the shimmer of the delay with a really short time repeat and a huge reverb sound gives me kind of a fake shimmer verb sound. So there you go there are four fun tips on how you guys can use reverb with your Blackstar Amped 2. Let me know down below in the comments how you've gotten on with these tips and how you are using the reverb in your Amped 2. In description there is a link that takes you over to the Blackstar website where there's a full write-up on this lesson and everything I've talked about. You can see that over there in an article form. Don't forget to subscribe to Blackstar Amplification on YouTube for more free video lessons like this and there's a ton more content over on the Blackstar potential page which is linked down below as well. If you're looking for a music teacher in your local area you can check out musicteacher.com. They have a huge network of teachers all around the country waiting to help you guys out. Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you guys soon.


Testing my audio and video. Roberta, can you see and hear me? Yep, perfect. Thank you. It's going to keep my camera off, but it looks like it's working. Good afternoon, everyone. Looks like we're still waiting for the two other committee members. So we will hopefully they jump on soon. Thank you for all being here. With your sad picture, director Burke. I'm sorry, I thought I voted. Chair Watts, we will see if we can contact both board members. I believe both had accepted. So give us a moment. We'll see if we can find any update. Okay. Great. Looks like we have board member Gray will join us. So we do have forum. Yes, we do chair Watts. I know secretary. I think we're going to have a discussion. I think I'm going to have a discussion with the board member. Secretary Aitha is trying to get in touch with. Board member Walsh. It's completely up to you. All staff is here. If you'd like to start, we can do so. If you want to give us another moment, we'll see if we, we hear back, but your discussion. We can wait another minute as long as stuff is okay with that. I don't want to waste your time. Okay. Chair Watts. We just heard back from board member Walsh and he is unable to hear back. Okay. Great. Thank you so much. Well, yes, we'll call them meeting to order at 105. Secretary Aitha, can you do a roll call? Yes. Chair Watts. Here. Board member Gray. I'm here. Sorry. There's a baby crying. That's just a parenthood. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You are not speaking. And now we'll open public comment on item two. So if you wish to make a comment via zoom, please raise your hand. If you are dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. Secretary Aitha, do we have any live. Email or voicemail public comments at this time? There are no public comments. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for approval. So if you wish to make a comment via zoom, please raise your hand. If you're dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. Secretary Aitha, do we have any public comments on our minutes? No, no public comments. Okay. Great. Now I will ask director Burke to introduce item 4.1. Thank you. Chair Watson members of the subcommittee. I just wanted to ask you to introduce item 4.1. That is a draft update. We really want to look to this subcommittee to provide in-depth information on how we are responding to droughts. We invite your feedback or suggestions. On other things that we should look into, but we really wanted to provide a lot of in-depth information. Show you all the different activities that we're doing. Invite any comments that you might have. future items that we are looking at in terms of our drop response as we anticipate the drop is going to continue through this winter. So with that I'm going to hand it over to our water use efficiency coordinator Claire Nordley and I believe she is going to run her own presentation. So Claire. Good afternoon. Thank you Director Burke. I'm going to share my screen. All right just confirming that you see my presentation. Not yet. Not yet. It's strange it's showing that I'm sharing. Okay just confirming you're seeing my screen now. Looks good. Okay great thank you. So I am the water use efficiency coordinator Claire Nordley and I'm going to provide an update on water use efficiency in drought. As you all know we are in stage three of our water shortage contingency plan which means a 20% community wide mandatory reduction. And fortunately we are doing quite well in meeting that reduction target. As you can see in this graph here the orange line is our 2021 target. The blue bar is our actual water use and the gray bar is our use from last year. So not only are we significantly below our use from last year but we're also meeting our target every month so far. So we've got a 22% reduction in both July and in August. In you know September through December we have reductions that continue to decrease as our water use decreases and we expect to be able to meet those as well. As a region we're also doing quite well. This is the cumulative Sonoma water Russian River diversions. And again as you can see month over month we have been meeting that target compared to our diversions or compared to Sonoma waters diversions since last year. Again that's almost a 22% reduction, 21.9% reduction. So it really just speaks to you know Santa Rosa and our regional partners commitment to water conservation. Part of the water shortage contingency plan in stage three are certain prohibitions and our enforcement of those prohibitions. For example our waterways ordinance which is always in effect year round but we do step up enforcement and we do receive many more reports of waterways during a drought. Since January we've received over 500 reports of waterways which is about a 200% increase since this time last year. We follow up directly with every single report of waterways that we receive either through a direct phone call to a customer. We send a letter sometimes we do both. We also offered a schedule an in-person outdoor inspection of their irrigation system. So you can see from this picture for example we did go to this property and were able to assist them in dialing back their sprinkler irrigation system and they didn't even know that it was causing a lot of. So sometimes it's just a little bit of education and customers are really happy to learn more about their irrigation system and fix whatever issues may be occurring. These are the specific prohibitions and our enforcement response to them. So the pictures on the right hand side are cards that we actually printed designed and printed in-house and sent out to various different customer types. So for example the bedsheets wash daily. We sent an example of all of those to all of the hotels and our short-term rentals in the Santa Rosa area. And let them know that those are free and available for them. They are required to have some sort of signage because we are in stage three indicating that bedsheets don't need to be washed daily and they needed to have some sort of an indication of that at their property. We did send out let's say 1500 of those cards in the last few months. So it was quite popular. We also offer a customized option on our website where if a business wanted to they could actually remove our logo and add their own hotel logo. And so that's available for download on our website. Or we also tell customers if they want to they're welcome to create and design their own cards and have them out for for their own use if they want to be specific about the brand and color etc. But we offer these for free if they'd like them. One of the other prohibitions that we do require during stage three is that irrigation is limited to nighttime you know 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. We did send out over 200 letters to irrigation professionals in the Santa Rosa area. So any licensed landscape professional landscape contractor landscape architect in the area received this letter just letting them know that this is a current prohibition encouraging them to make sure that their customers and their clients are prepared to meet this and offering them any assistance that we can provide with a free site audit. Another prohibition during stage three is that shut off nozzles for hoses are required. We have seen quite a big jump in people requesting hose nozzles. So I think our marketing is working. We've given out over 4000 of these hose nozzles since January. So it's been quite successful. And of course we always have free devices such as our hose nozzles, faucet aerators etc. available for pickup for free at any time at both the UFO and at the MSC South offices Monday through Friday for pickup. We've also been sending out pressure washing letters. So we did send out about 200 letters to companies who might pressure wash in Santa Rosa letting them know that that is prohibited right now if they're pressure washing with potable water. Although there are some exceptions such as for health and safety reasons or in preparation for construction such as painting etc. We have issued variances for those companies that have requested them for approved reasons and we do list those companies on our website in case anyone wants to be able to check into which companies have received the variance. We are being pretty proactive with targeting specific sectors and we found a really good response rate by really segmenting our population and providing them letters or contacting them directly with some of these related prohibitions. We've received good feedback on that. Also as you may expect you know you probably can't read this graph it's pretty small but you can see the general trend line is a significant increase since March. This is our call volume into our water use efficiency hotline and really you know since last year we've received a huge significant increase in calls. We're receiving about 180 calls per week right now and we are answering from live which customers are very happy about and glad to be able to reach us directly. Another big increase that we've seen recently is in our green exchange program participation. So these are specific specifically customers who the blue bar is for people who have requested a pre-inspection for removing their lawn and the orange bar are people who have actually completed their project and you can see the number of pre-inspection in 2021 has left significantly compared to the last two years. It's really exciting to see the number of calls that we've been receiving and being able to pre-approve these customers. We are offering both virtual and in-person inspections depending on the customer's desire, comfort level and ability to sort of interpret the guidelines virtually versus being in person and us talking them through them. So we do offer both depending on like I said the customer's comfort with COVID safety etc and their time and their schedule. One of the things that I would love this subcommittee's input on is you know a way to increase if there's any input on a way to increase the participation from pre-inspection to post-inspection. Most water utilities anecdotally that I've spoken to usually about 50% of the people who go through a pre-inspection actually complete the rebate and whether that means that you know 50% of them do remove their grass but maybe don't ask for the rebate because they don't want to participate in all of the program requirements or just because they find it overwhelming they never remove the grass. It's unclear but usually utilities are see about a 50% conversion right from pre-inspection to post-inspection and that's true here in Santa Rosa as well. So we're trending along average but of course I'd love to increase that. I'd love more participation in our green exchange program so if anyone has any suggestions about how to increase that and certainly all ears. Starting in 2020 we actually did start sending a reminder letter to people about a month before their program expiration date or their rebate expiration date. Just reminding them and prompting them that hey you know you were pre-approved for this rebate you still have about 30 days to continue this. I mean if you're still interested here's your expiration date you need to participate before then and we did see an increase we have seen a continued increase in people actually responding to that letter in schedule and post inspections. So that's one way that we have work to increase participation and going through the rebate but of course I'm open to any additional feedback. Now I just want to touch on some of the newer and you know digital lot of use efficiency measures that we have been implementing recently. So as you probably all know the WaterSmart portal was launched just a few months ago. This is a tool where customers can log in and look at their own hourly water usage it's been incredibly helpful. We've been sharing our screen with various different customers and walking them through how to access this information and it's certainly cut down on the number of especially commercial customers who request their hourly water usage from us directly. Now we can show them how to log in and how to access their usage and now they can pull their own water use data for themselves and I think that's been really helpful for them to access their data really quickly and it's decreased the workload on our side from having to pull that data so that's been really helpful. As of I believe it was this Monday we had about 3,500 people registered to the portal so it's increasing almost daily and it's really exciting to see more and more people participate in this and then just to note we are exploring options to figure out water savings potential from people who are logged in and committed to being used to using the portal. Another exciting development that we have is this dashboard that we've worked with a contractor on smartworks who developed our AMI the portal and all of our AMI data. This is a dashboard that really shows us at a glance all of our single family residential continuous use information so this is all about leak data basically and just to note this data is actually is old this is the test this is a screenshot of the test data so this is not actual real data but it shows you sort of what the kind of information is that we would receive so we can look at you know the total leak volume by day and see if there's some sort of an interesting pattern you know is there something that happens every day per week or if there are seasonal trend for leak volumes we can also see the total number of leaks resolved over a 14-day period. We can look at the number of notifications that we've sent the projected cumulative water savings so how much water are we actually saving from finding these leaks and notifying customers of this leak before their bill actually gets to them which was the normal way that people would find out that they have a leak. We're also looking at the average leak time so how long does a leak last for example and then we can also see you know when are the when are these leaks occurring how often are we notifying them etc so it's a really nice sort of just overall dashboard to show our leak detection information and then along with that dashboard sort of drilling into a few of the reports we worked very closely with the vendor to come up with this customized report this report and I'll zoom in here this customized report actually shows the date that a leak started how long that leak has been going so both the number of hours and in the last 24 hours how much water has gone through there as continuous usage and then what the total leak amount has been since the beginning of the leak and you can see some of these leaks are quite substantial you know about maybe halfway down through this screen you can see that there's one leak that's over 20,000 gallons since the beginning of their week and so really this is how we are able to prioritize which customers to reach out to first of course we want to reach out to every single customer and let them know that they have a leak but we want to prioritize the ones that are the highest leak and this report really allows us to drill into which leaks to reach out to first and then this little binocular symbol on the right hand side I can click on that and it will lead me to that customer's hourly water usage if I want exact and more information so that's exciting too to be able to sort of have everything in one screen so we decided to do a little experiment with some of this AMI data that we've been receiving recently we sent out a few letters about 84 letters to customers who are using over a thousand gallons in one hour so we picked that threshold a little bit arbitrarily thought that it seems like a lot of water in one hour just to sort of put that in perspective we often have people who were you know one to two people in a household use a thousand gallons in a month so to use that much in an hour seems substantial and we wanted to see how many people in our service area had that amount of water at the time when we pulled that data in June we had 84 people who used a thousand gallons or more in an hour and so we decided to send everyone letters and we broke these this group of 84 people up into two separate letters half of them received the letter on the left which just indicates you know giving them some information saying that they have high water use it may be because of a leak or another issue and we want to try to assist them that they should give us a call and we could help walk them through their water usage the letter on the right had the exact same information we also included a graph actually showing them their water usage and showing them that it was over a thousand gallons in an hour and we were just curious to see with the graph prompt more people to call us with the graph prompt people to respond to the letter more and reduce their water usage would it make any difference so we ran this experiment and basically here are the results so as I mentioned this letter was pulled in June 75 percent of people who received this letter reduced their water usage after the letter was received which is a really huge response right we did not expect that much of a response to be completely honest and then 22 percent of those people also called us and actually a set up an appointment with us and these are the exact customers that we want to be able to help we often get you know quite a few phone calls as you saw in the previous graph we're receiving about 180 phone calls per week many of those customers are already super savers you know people who are really dedicated to water use efficiency have low water use and just want to do a little bit more and while we certainly want to be able to help those people and support all of our customers no matter where they are in their water usage in order to achieve our water saving goals we really want to target people who are in that high use category so we were so excited to have 22 percent of those 84 people call us and actually set up an appointment many of them did have you know leaks some of them had pool filter issues irrigation systems going on when they weren't aware things like that that we were actually able to troubleshoot with them in person and it felt really good to be able to help those customers and then 15 percent of those people appeared to have some sort of a leak and so we did actually call every single one of those 15 percent that appeared to have a leak and let them know that you know we sent this letter you know it looks like there's some sort of a continuous use situation going on which is you know not not usual for a single family customer and we do encourage you to fix that as soon as possible and we're going to continue to monitor those sites so we found you know we have have these great results we didn't find really any difference between those people who received a letter with graph versus those without a graph so that was you know it was fine we we tried something out no difference it seemed but it's great that people just responded no matter what so our plan is to continue to send these letters out every month and every month it'll be a different threshold because some months you know hopefully in the winter time we won't have people using a thousand gallons in an hour and therefore that threshold will be too high so we hope to be able to ratchet that threshold down and continue to send out letters on a monthly basis just alerting people that you know they may have higher water usage so now sort of pivoting we are you know changing up the look a little bit of our fall and winter outreach campaign we want to make sure that people don't feel like our message is getting stale we're using the exact same tagline that we have been using since the beginning of the drought which is drought is here save water but you can see there's now a cute little curve to the end of the r with a water droplet and we're really trying to focus this campaign on a couple of different things one is specific and real life actionable items that people can do you know providing them something that they can they themselves can do at their own house to save water we also want to highlight real people so these images here are stock images but we hope to have you know more more realistic images that are actually taken around Santa Rosa homes so you can see here again this is of course a real life image I think this is director Burke's background actually so we've gotten that and again we just want to focus on real life examples of people saving water we're also trying to make sure that we're incorporating the voice of community videos that we produce to believe that W director Martin has shown some of those videos and past board presentations but basically those are community leaders such as the Santa Rosa junior college or Amy's kitchen and for them to talk about their own water savings at their own facility and encourage people in the Santa Rosa community to save water so we'll be highlighting those videos and that's with those hand in hand with these real life real people actionable water conservation savings we're also focusing on really getting the word out there that people should be turning off their irrigation come October 1st as the days get longer then sorry as the nights get longer and the days get shorter our plants just naturally need less water even though it is warm I know it feels like plants need more water but they're naturally going into dormancy at this time of year and so really we're trying to make sure that customers really understand that need for turning the irrigation off there's also of course the benefit of making sure that we're meeting our water conservation target as we go into winter time so focusing on that we have a bill insert that will be going out city connections newsletter radio ads and then we are doing targeted outreach specifically to dedicated irrigation meters so we're calling our top 100 irrigators we're also going to be sending letters to all of our dedicated irrigation meter customers every month during the winter if they have water usage on that meter because those meters should be turned off at this coming up in October and then as I mentioned we are focusing on real life water savers for the next fall and winter the voice of the community video series as well as highlighting our super savers so we put out a call for people in the community who really are dedicated to water conservation have done everything that they can to save water at their property and we want to try to highlight those highlight those people you know sometimes we forget that really a lot of people in Santa Rosa have undertaken extreme measures to save water at their property and have been doing so for years in past droughts you know maybe they can move their lawn they have low water use fixtures of their property they have their bucket and their shower they're really doing everything they can and so we want to celebrate those people make sure that they feel celebrated and that we are grateful for their water savings so we'll be highlighting those people also want to highlight a couple of our really successful events we've been doing a series of drought drop by events this is the October 9th event will be our fourth event for our drought drop buys and this next event will be at Colgan Creek Park and Youth Community Park from 8 a.m. until noon so far we've handed out over 3000 drought kits to residents in the last three events and hope that we can continue that success for this next two events in October the drought kit includes a bucket a shower head a hose nozzle dye tabs to test a toilet and then literature as well to provide some education to customers and you can see also in the bottom picture we've been handing out yard signs and I have been seeing these yard signs throughout Santa Rosa it's really exciting to see people who have received the yard signs and are actually displaying them at their house in Santa Rosa so I hope you all can join us at our next drought drop by and then of course we all we're always doing ongoing outreach you can see there's a banner here this is the banner at Finland Park on the tennis courts we also have our drought website that is updated on a really regular basis with frequently asked questions that we get from customers when they call us on the phone we're constantly doing social media posts we have radio ads digital ads print ads we continue to do direct mailers to customers we have bill envelope information on the outside of the envelope when you receive your bill we're doing bill inserts employee education there are frequently asked questions and talking points that are sent around to the entire water department every two weeks and so that really makes sure that everyone is on the same page and those who answer the phone are aware of what is going on currently the drought and their current stage etc and then of course this high visibility signage we're also seeking commercial customers who have a high visibility area that would be willing to put a sign up at their property so right now we are working with Santa Rosa junior college and a local church on the corner of stony point and west third who who are willing to put up the banner and some places in oakmont as well who have volunteered but if there are any suggestions we're certainly open to hearing more ideas about places where we could put some high visibility signage out and and then of course we're always seeking grant and funding opportunities we are working with Sonoma water on a regional grant application for the Bureau of Reclamation Water Smart grant we're throwing around a couple of different ideas but we're sort of settling on probably a toilet rebate program and enhancing our cash for grass rebate program so we'll certainly as we have more details on that application certainly bring that back to the board for your review and comments we're also looking into proposition one round two there's a chance for funding through that as well and we are certainly looking into other grant opportunities to ensure that we're making sure that we are being the most cost effective we're offering those cost effective programs to our customers that we can and then last but not least we are also looking into a couple of new rebate programs these were introduced to us through a few customers who were interested actually in a pool removal rebate and so we started investigating the potential water savings the cost effectiveness of these programs and well I don't have a concrete recommendation yet to provide to the board I do just want to introduce the subject that we are looking into and evaluating these two new rebates one would be like I said a pool and spa removal rebate and we would encourage customers to plant low water use plants in place of their pool and then the second rebate is a pool cover rebate to actually rebate the specific plastic cover that goes over a pool that reduces evaporation so we will certainly bring those back to the board again for comments and review prior to going live but certainly if you all have any thoughts or comments on defectiveness or ideas about how to implement those programs we're certainly all ears and are always open to feedback and this is my last slide so you know as always we're here to help we we want to help out customers our water resources webpage is srcity.org slash water smart and our drought information is at srcity.org slash drought and from there I will stop sharing my screen and turn back for questions thank you very much for your presentation do we have any board member question or comments at this time all right I have a couple things that I want to I wrote some notes down okay green exchange so you asked our thoughts on this so we are actually in the process of pulling out our loan right now we've just let it die and become brown for a few months and actually haven't started the process of removal but I think one thing for me that was a bit of a challenge when I was going through the website and looking at which plants and landscape options were were allowable in the program the I was doing it on my like on the mobile phone and the excel document that it you know took me to was really difficult to do on the mobile phone so when I was actually at a nursery to look at items I it was it was a little bit difficult to navigate so I was kind of brushed it off and like I'll just figure it out later I mean our lawn we haven't been irrigating in it's just been brown for a while so but that was one of my issues that I just kind of came up that I thought about with the green exchange and it doesn't mean that we aren't going to you know we definitely are you know pulling out the lawn but it just when you're in a rush and you're busy it was just I think that was probably the biggest distraction that I had from then say to all do a pre you know audit and do and go through with the program. Yeah that's great feedback thank you for that I will certainly look into whether we can optimize that for mobile use because you're absolutely right people are looking at things on their phone now. Yeah and when you're out actually buying buying plants I mean that was that was something and I was like you thinking oh maybe I should print it and I take it I don't have a printer at home you know all those little things that kind of just came up and so I just kind of forgot about it and figured out I would do it later so. Great point thank you for that feedback. And I was curious about the coordination with the parks and rec department and with some of their if you could kind of elaborate a little bit on that I know you guys do collaborate in especially during drought time but I think that that's kind of an inquiry I've received just from people in the community about oh well you know we're seeing sprinklers over at this park or and so forth and just kind of what the process is to ensure that we're still maintaining our public spaces because obviously they are important for for health and and so many uses but how do we message that with the work that needs to happen with the drought. Great question we you're right we have been coordinating with the parks department on a regular basis so we have had a series of meetings with the parks department to ensure that they understand the drought guidelines that we are requesting a 20 water conservation target community wide and we are also doing audits at many of the city facilities so actually meeting a site program coordinator out at the various different parks and going through their irrigation system valve by valve to see if there are any issues. As you can imagine just like any other residential system there's going to be leaks and breaks of course we try to fix those as soon as we can but we're not everywhere so we always appreciate people reporting water waste at any location including a city park and we do fall off with those as soon as we get those reports. We're also looking into a prioritization system for auditing those parks there are 189 meters at city parks and so we've gone through every single one of those and compared the water usage data from 2020 to 2021 to see if they are saving 20% and also to see how much water they're using per square foot of park space and the people and the sites that are using the most water per square foot are the ones that were prioritizing for a site audit and really making sure that for example we found one that had continuous water usage it was a small median it was not actually a park but as soon as we found that we got that over to the city parks department and they fixed it within a day so it was a really good collaboration I think we're just continuing that relationship now and passed into the out of the drought even. It would be great to highlight some of that through our you know social media and so forth I think that that would kind of give a lot of confidence in the community around what the city internally and all the departments are doing for this and and showing even if it's there is a leak and just the time to fix it or the super saving type parks that might you know happen with with some of your super saver highlights that you're doing this campaign I think that would probably be a pretty good way to instill confidence in our community that where everyone is taking taking this seriously and doing what they can. That's a great idea. Okay one other thing oh signs big banners I was just wondering if you uh collaborating with different school systems um and getting them on fences at schools I think that that's you know kids are going to school now and a lot of I live across from Santa Rosa high school and there's a lot of traffic going around the schools so I feel like that might be a good place to um get the word out to to the community. Yeah that's a great idea we have reached out to a couple of the different school districts that we're already working with to do audits and of course there's you know similar to government there's some red tape in putting things up on school facilities but we are working through that process and hope that we can put up signs as soon as we as soon as we get the approval. Yeah and then the last suggestion uh for the kind of everyday campaign that you guys are working on um I'm not sure you have it planned but I was thinking something along the lines of targeting those that might be behind in their bills and talking about um saving water equals saving money I know you guys do that with a lot of your outreach campaigns that you do on your regular water use efficiency work that you do year round but just kind of bringing that to the forefront for a really realistic picture of for someone in their everyday life. Good idea and I know you guys have a lot of marketing around that already that you you do so but you guys are doing so much work I mean the amount of volume of calls and you're able to be so responsive with those it's it's really impressive and I'm glad that the community as a whole is reducing at the amount that we're supposed to be in a little bit beyond I just hope that that continues and and um and it seems like the the campaigns and and the work that you guys are doing are is paying off so thank you. Thank you. Those are all my comments and questions. And Chair Watts if I may I just really want to thank um this subcommittee in particular and the board of public utilities for their support and leadership in our drought response this is an emergency it's a slow moving in an emergency but it is an emergency and we are working in an emergency response mode and um the the leadership that the board has shown and the support they've given us to get the word out get the demand response look at other alternatives so that we can respond to the drought has been phenomenal and then I just I can't say enough about the work of um Deputy Director Martin about our Watery Sufficiency Coordinator Claire Nordley as well as the entire Watery Sufficiency Team in addition to that our Operations Team who's helping support that work in the field and our Communications Team with Elise Howard and Katie Osegar who are just in addition to everything else we have going on have just been doing this incredible amount of work so I just really want to acknowledge the level of effort and work we couldn't be successful without all the players including the board and the council and with all that support being able to have our community trust us enough to respond so we're so grateful for all of that and I just really wanted to to say that well I don't think we would be more being able to work normally if we didn't have another disaster emergency for our area to have to deal with right so no but I'll all serious notes it you guys are just have done a fantastic job so it's um thank you and I think that probably concludes our board member questions and comments so we will take public comments on item 4.1 so if you wish to make a comment via Zoom please raise your hand if you are dialing in via telephone please dial star 9 to raise your hand. Secretary Aitha do we have any live raised hand or email or voicemail public comments? Chair Watts we have no public comments. Okay great well that concludes the meeting for today thank you very much for your presentations get out and vote and have a good rest of your week we'll see you in a couple of days I guess. Thank you. Thank you.