After attending TCC13, I wanted to raise my Tableau profile because personally, I thought it would be awesome and professionally, I think it would add more credability to what I was talking about. Here's where the identify crisis comes in.  I'm not a data or a techie person (and while you don't have to be a techie to use the software, let's face it, it sure does help to have that background).  If you want to talk to me about the condition of financial institutions and what reports would be helpful, I'm your chick (and yes, I called myself a chick, back down folks who take offense). Sooo, how does one raise their Tableau profile, with being handicapped on the data side and oh yeah, has more idea and work than staff and two young kids at home, and spends nights at the gym (point here: it's not like I have a ton of time to read up on stuff...I hardly take a lunch as it is).  My skills are still developing (from my perspective) and I'm one of those crazies that wants it done right the first time. 

I could come up with a fancy term for myself that if I hashtag enough, could gain worldwide acceptance (okay, maybe acceptance among five people worldwide).  Data artisan is becoming popular and that sounds cool.  What if I call myself a visualization seer or a visualization translator?  I can help translate what the end user wants to what the tableau developer needs to know. That actually is my biggest strength (I think) and leverages my background.  But I also want to (and am actually tasked this fiscal year) with developing a reporting strategy, which I totally dig.  The only challenge for me is that it's not solely my show, so I envision some brainstorming, collaborative sessions that for this introvert, will be completely exhausting (but if they are productive, I'm all about it).  

My goal is to publish six vizzes on Tableau public (I'm at two pretty disappointing ones). I love to plan, but I need to see action (my disc profile has me pegged).  So what's a girl to do? My fate rests in your hands. Well, maybe it's not that dramatic, but I'm pretty sure it is.  I'll be the lost wandering soul at TCC14 and no one wants to be that person, now do they? 

A viz in progress, I think.  I wanted to play around a bit and since we just went through one of the biggest shopping weekends of the season, I thought it would be fun to have random bits of holiday sales information. Since I'm not the one vizzing at work anymore, I'm still getting used to the functionality in V8. I love graphics, but I didn't want it to be too infographicy, so I picked an image of a bunch of presents that I hope tie to the blues, light gray, reds, and greens together in the viz. Interested in what the data looks like on the National Retail Federation's website? Then click here!