July 2023 Newsletter

It's hot AF and there's data to prove it.

Happy Summer, Women in Dataviz!

☀️It’s hot, and there’s data (visualization) to prove it! Phoeniz, Arizona, is coming up on its 20th consecutive day of temperatures of 110 degrees F or greater! It’s feeling utterly mild here in Tampa at a mere 86 degrees this morning. (It may get as warm as 93 later in the day.) The extreme heat is affecting cities around the globe—Bloomberg reported that Catalonia, one of my favorite destinations on the planet, reached 45.1C yesterday (if my calculations this website is correct, that’s about 113F.)

📩 You may have noticed we changed email platforms. Substack offers almost as much as Beehiiv, but for free, so here we are. In case you’re the nostalgic type, be comforted—Substack automagically imported our previous newsletters from Beehiiv.

👩🏼‍🎓 Change seems to be the theme of my life this season—I quit my full-time gig to focus on my freelance work, and I returned to grad school. (I wanted a more real-world-oriented program than when I was a grad student a few years back, so this time I enrolled in the University of Colorado Boulder Master of Science in Data Science. It’s about 60% programming! I’m taking a course on data mining pipelines this session, and it’s fun to be a student again.)

Upcoming events

🪵July 25, 11 AM EDT, Data Visualization Society Fireside Chat: Data Viz Insights through Feedback and Critique with Sarah Bartlett (Tableau Visionary), Andy Cotgreave (Senior Data Evangelist, Tableau/Salesforce), and Joey Cherdarchuk (freelance data visualization and analytics consultant), Register to attend via YouTube Live.

📚July 28, noon EDT, Data Book Club! It’s the first of three summer meetings where we’ll discuss Living in Data by Jer Thorp. The meeting link is on our community calendar. Get in touch with Brandi Beals on Slack for more information.

☕Aug. 17, 8 AM EDT, Virtual Coffee Break! The meeting link is on the community calendar, and I’ll post it in Slack a day or two prior.

Announcements and opportunities

📊Opportunities at Versalytix

Versalytix—brainchild of our own Tableau Visionary Hall of Famer and Cranky Aunt of Dataviz, Bridget Cogley, and the extraordinarily talented Jeff Huckaby and Papa Diaw—has welcomed some great new talent to their team, including Barry Chaiken, MD (Global Head of Healthcare) and Ron Dugger (Director, Solution Engineering). Could you be next? Versalytix specializes in analytics solutions, consulting, and talent acquisition around the globe. DM Bridget on Slack or email info@versalytix.com to learn more.

💻BI Analyst, DocGo

DocGo, one of my consulting clients, is hiring a full-time Business Intelligence Analyst with Tableau Desktop Specialist and/or Tableau Data Analyst certification and several years’ experience building and troubleshooting Tableau dashboards. They prefer a candidate who is local to New York City and willing to work in a hybrid environment. Bonus points for experience with Tableau Server, AWS, Skyvia, and/or healthcare data. Message me on Slack for more info or apply here and then let me know you did.

👩🏼‍💻 Reminder: Read and acknowedge the Community Code of Conduct!

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