Tech Talk with Toni

Power BI is one of the fastest-growing skills overall according to Coursera's Skill Report 2024  Today’s post is inspired by my decision to learn more about Power BI over Tableau. My bias stems from the fact that Power BI was my first data visualization love, and you never forget your first! Now, when you're in the dashboard creation game, you're likely to be familiar with Tableau and Power BI (PBI for short). If not, think of these tools as canvases for placing your data visualizations such as donut charts and histograms to tell a cohesive story around a specific problem you are trying to solve.  I want to explore the key differences between the two to form a more balanced argument when discussing with a Tableau enthusiast who claims that  "Tableau is better" (very funny). Just so you know, I don’t outright hate Tableau. In fact, I use it for most of the dashboards I create at work. The Tableau community is fantastic, and the tool allows for highly customized vis...

 A Guide to Effective Data Storytelling Two Trini Girls Gossiping In the Office Eh girl, lemme tell you dis story bout Maya, dis analyst in de office.   She had to work on some set of data and it was giving everybody rell headache.   Maya say she goh solve it, but as she was going through de numbers,  she start to realize dat someting wasn't right.  Den one night, she hear ah voice telling her dat she eh goh ever figure it out.    Maya get frighten and turn around but ain't see nobody.    Like one ah dem real old-time horror movie, eh!    From dat day, Maya start to say dat de data  was possessed and she went around de office telling everybody. Pat was like "Child, your story is more twisted than the road to Maracas" When a friend tells us a story, we often find ourselves fully engaged and able to recall the details easily. This is because our friends tend to use literary devices such as metaphors and imagery to pique our ...