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The thing that I am the most struck and encouraged by as I transition into tech, is the community. People from all corners of tech and data analytics have welcomed me in. I recently decided that I really need to level up my viz skills, and so I worked on finding data I could visualize. I settled on data about the wage gap in America.
Since I had just made a viz about Ukraine, I did feel like I had a mental roadmap to help me. After looking over the data in R (that is where I happened to get the dataset), I had a rough draft in my brain of the vizzes I wanted to make, and how they would articulate into a data story.
After a solid afternoon or a bit more of work I had built multiple sheets, several dashboards, and brought them all together into an appealing story. I was quite pleased with the outcome of everything- I had an especially fun but hard time creating a heat map for the first time. Here are some samples:
However, I still felt like I had done a great job for a beginner/intermediate level user of Tableau. So, I went onto the Discord channel which I built, and found someone who I knew is a Tableau wizard. I asked her to please look over my work and really help me dive into what I could do better to level up my skills.
Much to my surprise, she sent me back a 6-8 page document! It had screenshots, suggestions, a list of things I had done well, and details about how to accomplish some of the trickier suggestions. She had even attached a new workbook with examples, and sent a YouTube video on how to do the hardest skill (but coolest). I was totally floored- not only at her being so generous, but how cool her suggestions were!
After a good amount of tweaking and thinking and Googling on my part, I had incorporated all of her suggestions but with my own twist in a way that worked for me. I cannot tell you how pleased I am with the results.
Pretty cool stuff, right?
You can view the original viz here: https://public.tableau.com/views/WomenintheWorkforce_16500740286120/Story1?:language=en-US&:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link
And the Updated one after revisions here:
And, because when I published this story to Tableau public the "zoom in" options on the interactive chart didn't work properly, here is where you can view that dashboard separately and interact with the data. I recommend it, it's really cool!
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