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Building an analytics portfolio

From the course: Landing a Business Intelligence Role

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Building an analytics portfolio

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- A solid resume can get your foot in the door, but your interview shouldn't consist of you reading back what you've listed there. A much more effective conduit for a conversation in an interview setting is an analytics portfolio. An effective analytics portfolio will showcase your hard skills, while also demonstrating your ability to think critically. In this video, I'm going to give you some ideas on how to create an effective portfolio. The easiest way to build an analytics portfolio is by far Tableau Public. Tableau Public is the free version of Tableau that also includes a public server. Here, you can connect to data sources, create visualization as dashboards, and then save them to your profile. Tableau has done an amazing job at creating this interface. I even heard of hiring managers asking to look at candidates' Tableau Public portfolios before they even step foot in an interview. GitHub is another platform that is great at hosting analytics portfolios. Now, GitHub is a little bit more coding oriented, but it functions very similar to Tableau Public. You can create a profile where you can save your work. GitHub takes things one step further, though, and adds a gamification element. There is a chart that shows how active you are on the platform. And finally, you can build out your own simple website to showcase your work. Tools like Power BI and Excel are a little tough to showcase. One potential solution would be to take screen captures of your work and then post them to your website. With a personal website, you can embed things like Power BI dashboards so that those viewing your website can interact with your work. Nailing your interview is tough. It's a lot easier when you have a killer analytics portfolio to lean on.

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