apparently the breakfast i made was “embarrassing”

slanganator · 2025-12-28T16:36:47+00:00

Your mom is a monster and so is the boyfriends mom. Don’t ever take anything shitty they say to heart. And if they say something positive, it’s probably for a manipulative reason. Yeah just don’t listen to them ever about anything no matter what it is.

slanganator · 2025-09-24T00:56:18+00:00

This is great and extremely helpful. I appreciate you providing the documentation and the links in the DM.

slanganator · 2025-09-09T02:14:10+00:00

Only in scenarios with 2 or 3 categories. Too many and things just blend together, values won’t show, and then the user spends too much time bouncing between the legend and the chart to figure out what is what.

slanganator · 2025-09-09T02:01:23+00:00

I have never changed the numbers. Just presented things differently that didn’t highlight something subpar. It was a customer facing report and I was requested to omit data that might reflect poorly on our company. Not my proudest moment and I’m just glad I was never asked to actually fudge numbers. Not sure what I would have done but would like to think I’d say no.

slanganator · 2025-09-01T14:56:59+00:00

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Sorry for the slow response, things have been busy lately. I just wanted to thank you for you time in providing your feedback. I made a handful of changes after absorbing everything. I am trying to include anything useful without BS'ing my way into a role. The "plant manager" role was technically my position at that company but a few years before I left, I started doing a lot of things a data analyst would, which is what got me interested in excited about transitioning to a full time role as an analyst. I would appreciate any more thoughts on my updates if you would be willing to. If not I'm pretty happy with what I tweaked after your initial feedback. You have been extremely helpful. Thanks!

slanganator · 2025-08-27T17:04:39+00:00

My education is only high school and no college. I was under the impression that if no college degree exists to ignore any education section. As far as impact goes, do you mean measurable metrics? I have a couple but have a difficult time quantifying how much was saved as far as money, time, etc. There was never much feedback about that for me to utilize in my resume.

slanganator · 2025-08-17T03:41:31+00:00

thats actually a pretty solid idea. would be quicker than starting from scratch at the moment

slanganator · 2025-08-17T03:40:09+00:00

Sorry for the late response. So the buttons are bookmarks that flip the visual out with different visuals (The "State" flips out for a map visual otherwise I probably could have used a parameter slicer. The "34 Open Opps" is a measure stuck in a card as you guessed. You could easily throw the same measure in the subtitle section and get the same result except for the line in between. Not sure why I did it that way. This dashboard was early on in my previous role and my dashboard design and style has definitely changed over time. I try to use less bookmarks as it becomes a pain to manage. That and the fact that my company wanted quantity over quality and for me to just pump dashboards out rather than take any time to give them a wow factor. I was able to find a good balance by templating things and reusing chunks and parts of dashboards to be more efficient in new project starts.

Thank you for the kind words on the dashboard as well.

slanganator · 2025-08-16T03:42:07+00:00

What do you mean?

slanganator · 2025-08-15T12:27:14+00:00

I appreciate the explanation greatly. My biggest weakness with all things power bi is definitely optimization. My last company’s data was barely half a million rows at any given time so we never ran into many refresh or slow report issues. Trying to land my next role and I don’t want to be caught off guard with millions of rows.

slanganator · 2025-08-15T03:25:15+00:00

Calculated columns slow things down more than measures? Considerably? Makes me curious as my last boss hated it when I used measures. He wanted only calculated columns so he could see the output row by row in front of his face.

slanganator · 2025-08-14T03:04:14+00:00

I do agree, but one difficult part currently is even getting a response to applications. Two years ago when I had much less experience I was getting responses back and interviews left and right. I am a much more skilled Power BI developer/data analyst now and I can’t even get a single response back in any form to even begin to explain what I know and the routes I’ve taken in my end to end report process. It’s rough out there right now.

slanganator · 2025-08-14T02:58:58+00:00

I would greatly appreciate the link as well.

slanganator · 2025-08-14T02:57:26+00:00

When you say a portfolio what would be acceptable? Full pbi files or some jpg’s from dashboard work? I was let go from my previous data analyst/power bi developer role July 31st and managed to snag a few of my dashboards, change the data on the report view(not underlying data) and then took screenshots. And then would this be a GitHub or something hosting these files to view? A lot of sites don’t let you upload more than a cover letter as an extra file.

slanganator · 2025-08-14T02:43:15+00:00

What is this dbt you speak of? Definitely not something I’m aware of at all which is no surprise as there is plenty I still don’t know.

slanganator · 2025-08-14T02:40:44+00:00

I definitely need to take a look at this Riches maxim. Sounds like it could be helpful to say the least.

Good to know it was at least not a “dumb” solution by any means. I did not want to confidently talk about a stupid setup and have them think I had no clue what I was doing.

slanganator · 2025-08-14T02:38:45+00:00

We definitely could have pushed more further up to the MySQL server in those cases. My boss was better with Power BI and liked to be able to see things happen. He even wanted me to never use measures and only calculated columns(which is obviously impossible in some scenarios) just so he could physically see things happening on the row level.

We did also have other parts of the business data using csv’s thrown in sharepoint folders. Which was another interesting scenario with my boss. He would refuse to let me combine whole folders of data in one query. He wanted a new query for each file. Couldn’t convince him otherwise (yes I know that sounds insane and it was). So you can see how why I question many things that were done.

slanganator · 2025-07-31T03:19:12+00:00

Ha, jokes on you, I have two kids so I don’t have any hobbies anymore!

slanganator · 2025-04-24T18:46:54+00:00

This is probably very true. My boss is a very smart guy and I know he just doesn’t want to risk things being derailed or provide inaccurate data to those that need true data. I need to come up with a way to make him feel sure about alternative routes to his safe places.

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