My perfectionist behind has finally completed the Google Data Analytics capstone and it can be seen here or here as well as my GitHub portfolio. This project makes it look like I can code in Python, but I don’t yet believe that. I need to take another course to be sure.
Similarly, while the Google cert hypothetically taught me R, I want to do another project or take another class until I believe I can use it.
That said, I've completed enough courses on Tableau that I’m three-fourths done with my next cert!
I’ll be keeping my completed homework assignments on my Tableau Public page with the assumption that there’s nothing wrong with transparency as you learn.
I find Tableau quite fun! I plan to add more projects with greater style, complexity, and skill. Likely, the rest of the SDStories will be hosted here. I’ve long known what kind of visualizations I want to use (sankey, chord, dumbbell chart, dendrogram/tree, etc…). Now that Tableau is becoming intuitive to me, I feel like I’ll be able to do these more quickly.
Read moreI was discussing the state of racial inequality in CA versus MN with my dad, and I sent him this November 2024 article on The Worst States for Black Americans as support for my arguments. For this project, I spent a couple of hours extracting the data, converting it to a spreadsheet, and turning those spreadsheets into charts and visualizations to put in perspective how my state is treating me.
Let’s count our blessings with facts and logic!
Read moreMy perfectionist behind has finally completed the Google Data Analytics capstone and it can be seen here or here as well as my GitHub portfolio. This project makes it look like I can code in Python, but I don’t yet believe that. I need to take another course to be sure.
Similarly, while the Google cert hypothetically taught me R, I want to do another project or take another class until I believe I can use it.
That said, I've completed enough courses on Tableau that I’m three-fourths done with my next cert!
I’ll be keeping my completed homework assignments on my Tableau Public page with the assumption that there’s nothing wrong with transparency as you learn.
I find Tableau quite fun! I plan to add more projects with greater style, complexity, and skill. Likely, the rest of the SDStories will be hosted here. I’ve long known what kind of visualizations I want to use (sankey, chord, dumbbell chart, dendrogram/tree, etc…). Now that Tableau is becoming intuitive to me, I feel like I’ll be able to do these more quickly.
Read moreIt's been a while! I'm just going to give you an update before I say goodbye for a couple weeks or months.
On the data analytics front, I recently completed a SQL certificate with honors. I had started to doubt my skills in SQL, so completing this course was useful for me to reaffirm my knowledge. I still need to develop a project that will let me show off my SQL abilities on my resume.
Secondly, I've started a different course focused on Tableau. I similarly have been doubting my Tableau skills so I wanted to take the course focusing on data visualization. I ended up signing up for the entire 8-course certificate (I'm 3/8ths through!) so let's work this big ole brain and see how quickly I can finish it—and with an A, of course.
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In any case, the writing and the job search are currently battling for highest priority in my life while data analytics will take a backseat until I feel more economically stable.
Read moreThis Story of the Data of my Stories will cover the construction of a dashboard for my thesis, a middle-grade novel that necessitated a lot of research into California flora & fauna.
Today’s question for analysis is: Who lives in the setting of my thesis novel?
Read moreIt’s time for Part 2 of my Story Data Story Black Onomastics trilogy. We’re still covering my collection, organization, and analysis of data regarding Black names.
I decided to work with the names from The Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American slave trade databases after all, and this meant adding another 60,000+ entries before I cleaned it, resulting in 67,030 entries and 48296 unique names.
I’ve ended up with a Google spreadsheet that has 7 sheets with over 123,125 rows and a total of 66,565 unique names. Is there any wonder I want more power to shift through this?
In any case, I want to answer as many of my questions as I can with the spreadsheet as it is and then move the data into Tableau so I can compare it with US Census name data going back to 1880. The finale will hopefully have chord diagrams and other cool visualizations.
Read moreI’m digging into my process of collecting and organizing meaningful Black names, whether that’s from scraping Wikipedia pages or studying the US Census.
I originally started these lists with the question of “What are the characteristics of diasporic African American names and how do they compare with African names versus colonizer/ European-American names?”
Or in short,
“What makes a Black name Black?”
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