“RIGA COMM 2025” Women in Tech Conference / Katrina Kukuma, Data Analyst at Riga City Council

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Career path begins with free online courses during 2020 and a string of rejections before landing a role in RIA digital agency, now 2.5 years into municipal analytics. Work produces sensitive internal products like poverty dashboards kept internal, and recent months focus on building AI agents for other departments that actually get deployed. Daily tools include SQL Python PowerBI Excel, and the job demands communication time management problem solving plus attention to security and ethics.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:09Unconventional career start
3. 2:13Learning during COVID
4. 3:42Daily life of a data analyst
5. 6:51Key skills for the role
6. 9:24Summary and advice

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