This Skill WILL Get You a Job in Data

You've all made shitty PowerPoints.

If you are as tired as I am with PowerPoints, it's time to make a change. Trust me, I'm not the only one who is on this trend. 

EVERY BIG COMPANY DOES NOT USE POWERPOINTS FOR DATA ANALYTICS AND DATA SCIENCE TEAMS

Why Not?

Good question. Companies no longer want to go through boring bi-weekly or quarterly meetings. Meetings that cover the same metrics over and over again. Instead, they want automated ways to track these metrics in real time. Enter Dashboards.

Dashboards offer a quick way to do repeatable analysis. The normal process goes like this.

Your manager says, "Hmm, I wonder how our sales are tracking month over month in the technology segment." Then you have to go into your analysis tool of choice, pull the data, create a graph showing sales trends over time, filter the data only by the technology segment, put the results in a slideshow and present.

IDK about you but that sounds like a lot of work to me.

This is the beauty of a dashboard. Now, your manager can open up the dashboard and filter by the technology segment with a couple mouse clicks. So. Much. Easier.

But Chris, I don't know how to build a dashboard

Good point. Luckily for you, I am in the process of making videos about building dashboards. Maybe you want some additional resources for building a dashboard in R and other programs. Here are my favorite resource for R and Python.

• R-Shiny

• Dash Plotly (Python)

You can also use software like Excel, Power BI, SAS, and Tableau to build great looking dashboards, but these will often cost money. 

Now that you know how to build a dashboard, get going. Be sure to send me some example screenshots of your work :)

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Question of the day: Out of all of the dashboard building tools, which ones have you already built a dashboard in?