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Does LinkedIn sponsor business school?
Accenture per diems? $65 a day?
Should have never left Accenture, smh
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Outsourcing some of that usually helps
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Tableau is absolutely not tech savvy lol, I’m pretty sure a middle schooler could make some decent output.
Not really sure where you got that info from, I would say most of us are pretty good with data and creating output.
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In 8 years I’ve never seen data so messy someone actually needs to code to be able to deal with it. Strategy consulting deals with growth numbers, market sizes, revenue, costs, etc., it’s just super unlikely our data would ever be that big or that bad.
We did do a full 2 day offsite where we were required to learn power BI, tableau, alteryx, etc., so I’m general yes we all have at least some knowledge.
Dashboards, Alteryx and PPT are different use cases. Tableau is used to explore and synthesize lots of data. PPT is used for storytelling. You use Alteryx to prep the data, Tableau to identify the so what’s and PPT to succinctly make the point. They are all part of the toolkit but solve different parts of the problem.
Think cell.
Lots of time energy and iteration. Even if you aren’t talented at it, if that is your responsibility you figure it out. You don’t have to be technically savvy at first but after 6mo-1yr you need those skills.
Yeah, have had to teach myself tableau quickly to create a visualization/ dashboard . Don’t know if this is common at MBB but it’s extremely hard to pick up quickly
I think some are OP, but I don’t think it’s needed for everyone. I work with all ex MBB on a corporate strategy team and no one on my current team has those skills. They were all life science specialist with PhDs though that focused on strategy work. We use excel or thinkcell and it’s enough for the problems we work on. It just depends on what you’re focusing on. If we need any data visualization or analytics work we outsource it.
There isn’t a lot of data on the projects we do. We use a variety of databases and read scientific papers, but often the hard part is that there is no data. Most of the insights are driven by excel downloads from a variety of databases combined with connecting the dots between different scientific papers.
To rephrase: Do top consultants tend to be extremely good with alteryx (data prep) and tableau/power BI (dat viz/exploration)? If not, how do they visualize data and do exploratory analysis?
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Lol at comment "most are mediocre at analytics and bs through it"
Correction: most consultants are mediocre at everything except bs-ing - even then... the bs-ing is often suspect.
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This is an easy group of skills to have, don’t understand the question? An eighth grade class can learn tableau/power BI in an hour. Data cleansing and takeaways from the outputs take maybe 2 months experience. The case study interview is harder than any work you will do once hired