Interviewing for a data analyst role and they’ve asked me to pull together a data viz project in a couple days using publicly available data. It’s a busy work week and I’m trying to find the most efficient way to do this while still ending up with an impressive result. I’m comfortable with ETL in SQL and visualizing, but what’s a good data set that would give interesting results? Should I join together multiple and explore correlation? Would appreciate advice

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Kaggle has lots of interesting data sets.

Many good examples on Tableau public and you can expose the data sets.

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If you have Tableau (I think you still get one year free), the sample superstore data is well organized and there’s tons of tableau public viz that use this data to do amazing analysis and charts you can use for inspiration.

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I can help you with thinking through some ideas as well. Feel free to reach out 😊

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I had to do this for a role. Probably best to choose data around a topic you’re interested in/passionate about. Happy to chat you through what I did.

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I have a dataset from taking my own blood pressure 3x/day for the last 3 years. Interested?

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I’d get a couple loosely-related data sets, form a hypothesis about some “business decision” you think you can answer about them, and then try to answer it through visualization. If you can answer it, great, if not, explain why the hypothesis was wrong or extra data you’d need to prove it right.

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Thanks for this suggestion! Curious if you have an example you could share

I did this for a data science role. I used the data from fishbowl comp survey for deloitte lol. Leveraged my analysis into why I should be paid what I asked

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I always go with the area of expertise that I’d have to overseeing in role. But if that doesn’t work, old faithful is my NBA Player value model I have been working on for 4 years and has seen crazy progress on over those 4 years correlated with my data curation, analysis, modeling, and visualization skills, as well the predictability (growth vs regression of player skill development) skills all developing further and much more technically sound.

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https://data.gov/

Big Query has a ton of public data sets

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