Speaker 1: Being perfect is very exhausting. It's a never-ending race how I build a great data visualization. I'm presenting it to my managers Hey Draw things out and bring how our markets have been performing. I'm gonna be in town for a whole month Lillian, how do you improve yourself? Hello Good morning Good morning. Good morning everyone. It is currently 8 a.m. and this is like my sacred morning time making my favorite avocado toast today. It's perfectly ripe. From 8 to 9 a.m. I get to do my own thing like nothing about work and nothing about YouTube just doing the stuff that I genuinely want to do Perfect combination. So I'm a type A perfectionist, but as I turned 27, four months ago, that's when I started to realize, you know, being perfect is very exhausting. It's a never ending race. I always feel like, you know, I can do better, I should do more. So recently, I've been rethinking about the concept of perfection, in which what if the moment that you're yourself, you're doing you, you're simply perfect. Yeah. Looking at my calendar today, there are three buckets of things I'm doing. mix of leadership, analysis, and stepping out of my comfort zone. The first one is I am meeting with a product manager. Honestly, I barely know anything about products. And after launch, I need to work on a monthly business performance report. And then in the afternoon, I've been leading our quarterly business report, and I'm presenting it to my manager's manager on, you know, the whole deck. good how are you so many people saw the video do you feel famous now i saw your comments on the deck i built yesterday oh thank you for the feedback a lot of you often ask me lillian how do you improve yourself any tools books or podcasts my answer to that is my co-workers sometimes the the best place to learn from is the people around you. Your coworkers are probably good at something. That's why they're working here as well. So learn from them by asking strategic questions like this one. What's the ideal outcome for you? Like, what is your goal from this insight synthesis? Because then from there on, I can think about what type of questions to ask our stakeholders. By asking them, what is your goal for this project? It helps me know how I can do my job better. And it also allows me to see how they think, which then I can learn from. Okay, yeah, mm-hmm. Okay, just to confirm, there are two goals here. One is on... Switching gear to the quarterly business report, which is a 60 to 80 slide deck where we analyze all the business metrics to articulate our business performance because there are a lot of graphs in this deck, so I'm making sure each graph conveys a key message. On the topic of data visualization, there is a very popular platform when it comes to visualizing data, I want to introduce Tableau to you, especially their free Tableau for Student programs for those of you who want to work in tech and level up your data analytics and data visualization skills. Tableau is an analytics platform that allows you to easily explore, visualize, and interpret massive amounts of data so you can quickly extract business insights. A lot of big tech companies, including Verizon and Lenovo, already use Tableau to visualize their data. It's a highly sought-after skill to know how to interpret data via Tableau dashboard and even better if you have some basic skills in building a Tableau dashboard. So if you're a student looking to improve your data analytical skills, Tableau for Students is the student-focused program that offers e-learning, free training videos, and other student-specific offerings. Simply download the free Tableau desktop, and in the program, you can see tons of real businesses sample data sets. Let's download this data set on store sales data. Quickly import the raw data into your Tableau desktop. In the data source tab, you can see all the raw data sources that help you sort through millions of data. If I want to analyze sales figure by region, simply drag and drop those fields to visualize the data and discover trend. You can easily arrange the data from the regions with the highest sales figures to the least or vice versa. You can also customize different visualizations such as charts, colors, labels, et cetera. If you get stuck, you can go to the student support page to ask questions and find community answers. And you can also get the Tuple certification to prove your skills. And it's currently 20% off. If you're a full-time student at an accredited academic institution, you can also get a free academic license. So check out the Table for Students program if you're looking to upskill your data visualization and analytical skills today. I'm gonna make a coffee to get myself going for the rest of the day. These beans smell so good. It's from... Where are the beans from, by the way? Devotion?

Speaker 2: Devotion.

Speaker 1: Devotion. ♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh ♪ ♪ Thinking bout the way we-e-e-e-e-e-eem ♪ ♪ Just why? Mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm ♪ ♪ Thinking bout the way we-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-eem ♪ ♪ Jamsil muncheoseo neowa nae ♪ ♪ Ganhan neowin mal saenggakhae ♪ I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm stretching the milk. I think I did it. Look at this foamy, creamy oat milk. Oh, this is the best coffee ever. Looking at the view. We'll do our performance report. For the performance report, I'm giving our leadership a quick summary on how our markets have been performing. performing. So I'm looking at our data dashboards on the right and visualizing my data insights on the left in a deck. And here's my step-by-step guide on how I built a great data visualization. Let's say you're the business analyst at Facebook and you're being asked to analyze a number of new users across its suite of products in Q4 2023, assuming they only have four products, so Messenger, Dating, Marketplace, and Groups. Step one, benchmarking. Always have a point of comparison when visualizing so you can tell a story about whether this number is good or not. The common mistake is to visualize like this. Even though you can see that Messenger brought in 100 million users in Q4 and then marketplace and so on, the graph only tells us the fact. It doesn't tell us a story about how the users have been performing. One of my favorite ways to benchmark data is to compare it against historical data. So in this case, Q4 in previous years. This method still shows us Q4 2023 performance and it also shows us how each product has been performing over time to justify our current performance. Always think about how you can tell a story in your graph. But we're not done yet. Use color effectively. The focal point is on cue for 2023, so highlight the focal point and the rest can be shaded in gray to maintain clarity and focus. When showing historical data, limit it to three past years or three past quarters to avoid cluttering the graph. Step 2, annotation. The goal of data visualization is to help your audience see patterns for business insights. I use arrows, text boxes, and colors to direct viewers' attention so they can understand this graph quickly. Here I'm using arrows to highlight the pattern of all the products experiencing a decline over the years in Q4. And interestingly Facebook Messenger is the only one on the rise. Step three, call out the insight. So you're noticing the pattern, then ask yourself, why is that? What insight are you trying to convey with this pattern? Traditionally many people write the insight on the right side of the graph. I still do that but I also include a super summarized insight in the graph as a call box. This way when people look at it they know exactly what it's about without needing to read the full text. So strong growth due to integration with Instagram. Our new graph now tells a story on its own and this allows the audience to focus their attention more on the business not the data. So like, huh, interesting that Instagram integration could boost user growth. Why is that? What's the opportunity here? A good graph doesn't need extra explanation. It should visually summarize the key points you're trying to make. I'm going to make instant hot chicken noodle soup because it's really cold these days.

Speaker 2: What are you eating? It's a typical lunch. It doesn't look too pretty, but it's got all the essential macronutrients. Bye. You want to eat my chicken noodle soup? No.

Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't eat lunch.

Speaker 2: I've been practicing my latte art.

Speaker 1: Wow.

Speaker 2: Let's do this little heart here.

Speaker 1: For who? For me or for you?

Speaker 2: Yeah, you can have it. You want it?

Speaker 1: No, I don't. Thank you.

Speaker 2: I'll scoop it out and give it to you.

Speaker 1: Back to his visual table. You might want to move because I'm going to open this. It's gonna burn your face off. You want that?

Speaker 2: Sure, I'll do it.

Speaker 1: You do? Do it. No, seriously, I'm scared for you.

Speaker 2: I need to hold Bella to make sure she doesn't get scared of the noise.

Speaker 1: You're holding her like you're holding your child. Try the cucumber. I marinated it yesterday. Yo, this is so good. I've been craving fruits as my sweets. I'm a very visualized person, I always draw things out and brainstorm. This is the brainstorming backbone for the data visualization tip in this video. I got the visual first and then I write the script. Bella. Come on, let's go. Let's go. I'll take you on a pee trip I accidentally filmed on time-lapse, but she knows where she's going The dog park? Peeing check I thought I would join the playtime, get some cardio in Quick touch-up before my meeting Favorite blush these days It brings out the best color according to your skin tone Stephanie Beauty lip gloss hey for this meeting instead of walking you through the whole deck which is like 60 slides uh we'll just go through the first 10 slides that has like all the key summaries after the meeting i'll also send you the link to the deck so you can make comments etc any questions before i start? so i'm gonna present my screen let me know if you see it Um, meet me at Whole Foods after. Alright, this is my pilates fit. What's up, little dog? My pilates sucks. Wait, I think she's swimming. She's swimming. She's swimming her legs. Taro chips are insane. These are so good. Wait, let me get a bunch. My dad likes it. Okay. These Stanley cups are really tripping me. It looks so good. We're not doing that, it's $45, there it is. Our Disney movie night has begun. Best boba in New York City, 50 land. Their golden bubble is so good. Oh gosh, so good. It's so good. It hits every time. Mwah. you