Last week, I spoke at Women in Data Science Blacksburg. This event allowed those in the Virginia Tech and Blacksburg community to network and build data science skills. It was filled with talks, a career panel, small group discussions, and…
WomenTech Global Conference – Coming Up June 2021
I am excited to share that I am going to be speaking at the WomenTech Global Conference in June 2021. I will be speaking about “Common Data Visualization Mistakes”, and how we can tackle them. I was recently featured on…
Women in Finance Online Festival 2021
This week, I had the opportunity to speak at the Women in Finance Online Festival. This conferenced gathered women from all over the world to talk about careers in the finance. I was invited to attend three days of the…
Women in Analytics Virtual Summit 2021
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend and present at the Women in Analytics Virtual Summit. WIA is one of my favorite organizations for the analytics field, so it was an honor to be invited to give a tutorial…
Michelle’s Lack of Travel in 2020
For the past 4 years, around December I would start preparing data for my annual Travel dashboard. This year was a little bit trickier. I left my job as a consultant where I was traveling a lot, and we had…
Lesbians Who Tech – Debug 2020 Summit
Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to present at the Lesbians Who Tech & Allies Debug 2020 Summit. My topic was “How to Create Data Visualizations That Are Actually Helpful” (wow, a mouthful!) where I covered strategies for creating…
Tableau Conference 2020 Takeaways
Now that I am in a job where I am doing Tableau development full-time, I was really excited to be able to attend the Tableau Conference this year. Unfortunately Data 2020 took place remotely, but there were still so many…
Pandemic Impact on US Travel
This year, I made a commitment to participate in the Tableau Iron Viz. Each year there are feeder competitions with different topics, and the best visualizers from the feeder competitions get to compete at the conference on stage! I didn’t…
COVID-19 in the US
Without context, your numbers have little value. I can tell you that 500 people in my county have been affected with COVID – but is that a lot? How many people are in my county? How does that compare to…
Where We Went 2019
For the past few years I have been visualizing my travels – and for 2019, I got my husband to participate! This was an insane year of travel for both of us. I had the opportunity to visit 4 continents…
Women in Data Science Blacksburg
Last week, I spoke at Women in Data Science Blacksburg. This event allowed those in the Virginia Tech and Blacksburg community to network and build data science skills. It was…
WomenTech Global Conference – Coming Up June 2021
I am excited to share that I am going to be speaking at the WomenTech Global Conference in June 2021. I will be speaking about “Common Data Visualization Mistakes”, and…
Women in Finance Online Festival 2021
This week, I had the opportunity to speak at the Women in Finance Online Festival. This conferenced gathered women from all over the world to talk about careers in the…
Women in Analytics Virtual Summit 2021
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend and present at the Women in Analytics Virtual Summit. WIA is one of my favorite organizations for the analytics field, so it…
Michelle’s Lack of Travel in 2020
For the past 4 years, around December I would start preparing data for my annual Travel dashboard. This year was a little bit trickier. I left my job as a…
Lesbians Who Tech – Debug 2020 Summit
Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to present at the Lesbians Who Tech & Allies Debug 2020 Summit. My topic was “How to Create Data Visualizations That Are Actually…