People often ask me how I ended up working in data. When you study psychology and end up as an analytics engineer, the path isn’t immediately obvious to everyone.
Looking back, the pieces were always there—just in different forms. Psychology taught me to ask better questions, recognize patterns, and understand that what people say they do often differs from what they actually do. Those same skills turned out to be foundational for working with data.
Here’s my full journey in one visualization:
The transition wasn’t as random as it looks. Both fields are really about understanding patterns and telling stories with evidence. Just with different tools.