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Keith V. Helfrich Visualization & Analytics
Rookie to Rockstar!
@keithhelfrich
Themes For the Next Half Hour
Persistence, Pride, Inspiration, Ambition, Success, Fulfillment, Defining Moments, Joy, Perseverance, Reward, Opportunity, Dedication, Support, Carpe Diem, Example, Celebration, Greatness, Accomplishment, Goals, Victory
.. and just a wee bit of data
#1: Commitment
“Rudy Ruettiger wants to play football at Notre Dame, but has neither the money for tuition nor the grades to qualify
for a scholarship.
My Rudy Moment Looked Like This
- the context
- the conflict
- the resolution: become a data rockstar
Make it Personal. Make It Real.- Maybe you’ve had your Rudy moment?
- But, if you’re lacking personal commitment .. we can can manufacture a rudy moment here, now
Say it aloud: “I will become a data rockstar”
I own you.
#2: The Framework
How to Data Pivot Your Career1. Talk to as many people as you can
2. If you’re unhappy in your current role, don’t wait
3. Expect some trade-offs
4. Find a sponsor / mentor
5. Give yourself credit where credit is due
All Careers Need an Elevator Pitchespecially a career in transition
Mine looked like this:
“You must be the person you never had the courage to be.
Gradually, you will discover that you are that person. But until you can see this clearly, you must pretend & invent.”
– Paulo Coelho
Fake it until you Make it the right way ..
Say What You WantNot What You Do
– Bruce Kasanoff
Channel Your FailuresYou’re new at this. You will make some mistakes.
And you will encounter setbacks.
There’s more to rockstar than working with data
communication, empathy, sincerity
rockstars are good with people
On the Plinko Board of LifeYou may need to swing from the rungs a bit.
Your Risks Might Include
- Changing departments within your company
- Stepping down from a managerial role to be "hands on" again
- Taking time off to learn and "retool"
- Using data to communicate & bring about politically sensitive change
- Any of a host of risks that, because of your passion, feel right to you
Play to Your Strengths
“Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at
you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the
wrong answer.”
– Peter Drucker
These are my strengths ..
~ Be Weird ~
- As kids, we're taught to be normal. To just fit in. Pay attention in school & don't draw too much attention.
Then we enter the real world to learn that normal is boring.
- Boring people are forgettable. To succeed as a person, business, or brand: you cannot be normal.
Replacement Slide
Passion
Immediacy
“Weird”
Memorable
You need to stick out. You need to be different.
You need to be yourself.
Why Weirdos Outperform Normals
http://rhsd.io/Science-of-Weird
#3: First Steps
Where to Begin
Set Your Milestones
Start from your elevator pitch & work backwards
- Which milestones lie between here & there ?
Lay out the path you will follow
- No hard deadlines, simply a fervent desire to arrive
Drink from the FirehoseMeet-ups: TUGs, Data Science, Women in Data, ...
Social Networks: Follow the experts, participate
Feedly: Read the blogs
Amazon: Read the books
MOOCS: Take the courses
LinkedIn Groups: Tableau Enthusiasts, Tableau Software Fans and Friends, ...
Podcasts: Data Stories, Tableau Wannabe, …
Work with data you’re interested in!
Manage your professional brand
- Integrate into the Twittersphere
- Design your business cards
- Start a data blog
- Polish your Internets
- Polish Delete your Resumé
And take it easy on yourself. Impossible to do everything at once!
Starting a Data Blog
Write for your own edification: later it becomes an asset to your career
Choose Your Platform: ghost, make it responsive!
Define Yourself: be who you are
Find Your Voice: edit, edit, edit (+ more editing)
Red Headed Step Data
Data Blick
Keeping it Running
Cadence: one post a month works well
Tools: Bit.ly, Embed.ly, Add This, Google Analytics
Networks: Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit, Google+
Track Your Writing: blend these stats with your site traffic data
Take This With You!#1: You can totally data pivot your career!
#2: Success begins & ends with commitment
#3: Rockstars are good with people. Be yourself
#4: Take some risks & play to your strengths
Keith V. Helfrich Visualization & Analytics
@keithhelfrich http://rhsd.io
ReferencesSlides
- http://rhsd.io/rookie-to-rockstar-slides
Say What You Want
- http://rhsd.io/say-what-you-want
Strengths Finder
- http://rhsd.io/strengths_finder
Why Weirdos Outperform Normals
- http://rhsd.io/Science-of-Weird
How to Become a Data Visualization Expert: A Recipe
- http://rhsd.io/visualization-expert-recipe
Getting Good at Tableau – the Screencast
- http://rhsd.io/getting-good-at-tableau
Your body language shapes who you are
- http://rhsd.io/Amy-Cuddy
Red Headed Step Data
- http://rhsd.io/SFBATUG-Talk
Data Blick
- http://rhsd.io/datablick