2017 has been an amazing first year of using Tableau as a data visualisation tool. It's been a year full of amazing opportunities such as participating in Makeover Monday as well as attending the London and Birmingham Tableau User Groups which have been the big highlights of 2017 for me. Coming into 2018, I'm always looking to improve my … Continue reading My Tableau Goals for 2018
What does a bench and me have in common? Quite a lot. After graduating from Birmingham City University, I have been in the never-ending fight to secure my first graduate job and whilst I have had secured interviews and come close to getting job offers, it has given me some food for thought. It can … Continue reading Two months after graduating… What have I learned?
If one viz was not enough on a Sunday, then I thought "Why not do another?" That's exactly what I did and as its nearly coming up to the 20th anniversary of Robbie Williams' debut album "Life thru a Lens", this was only fitting enough to do a viz on an artist that has entertained my generation. Similar … Continue reading Let Me Entertain You – A Robbie Williams Viz
In life, you have extraordinary highs and almighty lows, but when you are faced with something that completely knocks you back so much, you ultimately hit rock bottom. Your confidence goes and you are left with nowhere to go, which is what happened to me this week. Not that rock bottom from The Rock..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9RlXa_edx8 … Continue reading Hitting rock bottom and getting back up again
There's not another week that goes by when I see change from all aspects of my life, whether that is new developments taking place in Birmingham or finding new systems to achieve success. It is without saying that how you approach change can really make a big impact to your career and life. Whilst in the never-ending … Continue reading Approaching change from new perspectives
Every day I wake up in the morning, I think to myself "How lucky I am that I'm doing the things I love every day!" It's not an easy path I have taken and with good reason, I enjoy achieving my goals the hard way because I would have faced some form of adversity along … Continue reading Taking the hard way to achieving your goals
To say these past couple of days have been character building is an understatement! I was frustrated with the past couple of months with my efforts to secure my first graduate job but its important to reflect upon what makes you stand out differently from the crowd. If my memory is correct, I have had … Continue reading Never conform to the crowd, be different
It can be a very tough predicament being a recent graduate coming out with an Upper Second Class Honours degree in Media and Communication (Journalism) at Birmingham City University and not finding that first graduate job like I have in July 2017. The networks you have built throughout college and university and you are hitting … Continue reading Figuring out my own rags to riches story
Happy New Year everyone! I thought as it was the start to the New Year that I would teach myself something that would come in handy and that is Tableau! On the first day of 2017, I set apart learning the data analysis software that I stumbled across at the end of 2016 through a … Continue reading What my past few weeks with Tableau has taught me
