I built my first Tableau dashboard to answer a question my school kept asking: which ninth graders were quietly falling off track to graduate. After six years teaching high-school mathematics, I'm moving into data analytics on purpose, and the Data Analyst role at Tableau is where I would most like to do it. This is a planned change backed by a year of focused preparation.
Teaching gave me more analyst practice than the job title suggests. Each semester I pulled assessment exports for about 150 students into spreadsheets, cleaned inconsistent section codes, and looked for the skills where whole classes were slipping. I compared instructional approaches across my sections and changed my lessons based on what the results showed, not what I expected. Then I explained those findings to parents, administrators, and other teachers, most of whom had no interest in the word statistics.
Over the past year I added the technical layer. I completed the Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate, practiced SQL joins and window functions on public education datasets, and used Python with pandas to clean and reshape messy CSV files. My main project is a Tableau Public dashboard on graduation trends across local districts, built from state report card data. A local education nonprofit now uses it in its board meetings, and their feedback taught me more about labeling and filter design than any course did.
I know I would be the newest analyst on the team, and I'm ready to learn your data and your standards quickly. I'd welcome a conversation and would be glad to walk through the dashboard and the SQL behind it. Thank you for considering a candidate with a less conventional path.