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…
Round the World with Nellie Bly
Nellie Bly was a journalist, who aimed to travel around the world in less than 80 days, as described in a book by Jules Verne. This Tableau dashboard, Round the World with Nellie Bly depicts the journey that she took,…
Traveling with Michelle in 2018
After creating my travel dashboard for 2017, I wanted to continue the tradition and design an updated dashboard for 2018. While it was pretty similar, I wanted to add an additional data point to make it more interesting. This year,…
Michelle’s 2021 Book Review
It has been a minute since I put together a Tableau Public dashboard – since starting my job as a Tableau Developer, I haven’t built a lot in my spare…
Tableau Conference 2021: Presenting and Takeaways
Over the past year I have grown tremendously as a Tableau Developer – I have picked up better infrastructure practices, and I have experimented with increasing dashboard adoption across our…
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…