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Edition #5: 11 Aug 2020
☀️ Happy Tuesday and welcome to Vizard weekly Edition #5, curated content on Data visualization/Tableau/Power BI/ Clearing interviews and career growth in general. Oh and some fun too 😍
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📙 Excerpt from Storytelling With Data
✨ Understand the context
Build a clear understanding of who you are communicating to, what you need them to know or do, how you will communicate to them and what data you have to back up your case.
Employ concepts like the 3-minute story, the Big Idea, and story-boarding to articulate your story and plan the desired content and flow.
- Pretty much anyone can put some data into a graphing application and create a graph. This can render the most interesting story completely underwhelming, or worse.
- There is a story in your data. But tools don’t know what that story is. That’s where it takes us—the analyst or communicator of the information—to bring that story visually and contextually to life.
- Exploratory vs. explanatory analysis explained with Oysters and Pearls analogy.
- Concentrate on the pearls, the information your audience needs to know.
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📊 Data Visualization Stuff
Salaries vs. Education – the costs of 50 common U.S. jobs
The Tallest Buildings on every Continent
The environmental impact of Beyond Meat and a beef patty
Top Olympic Medal Earning Countries
Watch COVID-19 spread throughout England in this animation
Number of horses vs cars in the United States
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🤑 Jobs/Freelancing in (Aug 2020)
Who is hiring? – Current hiring companies
Who wants to be hired? – Leave your details here if you are looking to get hired
Freelance gigs – If you are looking for freelance work
Data Analyst jobs in Tech companies
Remote Tableau/BI developer jobs
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👨🔬 Interesting Stuff
Tailwind CSS: From Side-Project Byproduct to Multi-Million Dollar Business
Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects
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😛 Fun Stuff
JS1024 Results – 1k JavaScript Demos
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⚙️ Favorite Tool
Rapiddox is my favorite tool to generate Tableau/Power BI documentation in seconds. Highly recommend it if you want to avoid grunt work, save more time and actually sound smart in your team.
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👋 End Note
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Sateesh
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