MASTERY JOURNAL TIMELINEBY KIMBERLY VALLEJO

GOAL:

TO IDENTIFY MY LIFE’S TASK AND GAIN INSIGHT ON HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY NAVIGATE THE STEPS FROM APPRENTICE TO MASTER.

RESOURCES: READ ROBERT GREENE’S BOOK “MASTERY”

WATCH THE UNDERSTAND THE SOCIAL CONTEXT VIDEO ON LYNDA.COM

WATCH THE ROBERT GREENE "MASTERY" - TALKS AT GOOGLE VIDEO ON YOUTUBE

MASTERY: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND LEADERSHIP

FOUNDATIONS OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

RESOURCES:

TAKE THE COURSE FOUNDATIONS OF BUSINESS ANALYTICS: PRESCRIPTIVE ANALYTICS ON LYNDA.COM

TAKE THE COURSE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT FUNDAMENTALS ON LYNDA.COM

TAKE THE COURSE TIME MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS ON LYNDA.COM

GOAL:

TO MASTER THE BASICS OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ARCHITECTURE AND UNDERSTAND HOW BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS CAN BE USED TO IMPROVE EXISTING BUSINESS PROCESSES.

ENTERPRISE DATA MANAGEMENT

GOAL:

TO LEARN TO DESIGN LOGICAL DATA MODELS AND TO DEVELOP A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE SECURITY ISSUES THAT MOBILE DEVICES AND CLOUD-BASED SYSTEMS PRESENT.

RESOURCES:

TAKE THE COURSE THE MODERN ENTERPRISE DATA ENVIRONMENT ON LYNDA.COM

TAKE THE IMPLEMENTING A DATA WAREHOUSE WITH SQL SERVER JUMP START ON MICROSOFT VIRTUAL ACADEMY

TAKE THE SECURITY IN A CLOUD-ENABLED WORLD ON MICROSOFT VIRTUAL ACADEMY

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGIES

GOAL:

TO LEARN TO EXTRACT, TRANSFORM, AND LOAD DATA WHILE GAINING INSIGHT INTO HOW TO CHOOSE THE BEST DATA MINING TOOL FOR THE CURRENT SITUATION.

RESOURCES: TAKE THE SQL SERVER INTEGRATION SERVICES COURSE ON LYNDA.COM

TAKE THE HADOOP FUNDAMENTALS COURSE ON LYNDA.COM

TAKE THE DESIGNING BI SOLUTIONS WITH MICROSOFT SQL SERVER ON MICROSOFT VIRTUAL ACADEMY

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ANALYTICS

GOAL:

TO BECOME SKILLED IN THE USE OF VARIOUS STATISTICAL METHODS IN ORDER TO PRESENT MEANINGFUL INFORMATION THAT WILL BE USED FOR PROBABILITY-BASED DECISION MAKING.

RESOURCES:

TAKE THE BASICS OF DATA FOR ANALYTICS COURSE ON LYNDA.COM

TAKE THE INTRODUCTION TO DATA ANALYSIS WITH PYTHON COURSE ON LYNDA.COM

TAKE STATISTICS COURSE ON KHANACADEMY.COM

DATA MINING

GOAL:

TO BE ABLE TO USE ALGORITHMS TO EXTRACT INFORMATION FROM LARGE DATA SETS AND TO DEVELOP A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF MACHINE LEARNING AND HOW IT IS USED IN BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PROCESSES.

RESOURCES:

TAKE THE EXCEL DATA-MINING FUNDAMENTALS COURSE ON LYNDA.COM

TAKE THE UP AND RUNNING WITH EXCEL CLUSTER ANALYSIS COURSE ON LYNDA.COM

TAKE R AND PYTHON COURSES ON DATACAMP.COM

PATTERNS AND RECOGNITION

GOAL:

TO BECOME SKILLED AT RECOGNIZING PATTERNS IN DATA AND TO BE ABLE TO DEVELOP CONCLUSIONS BASED ON THE RELATIONSHIPS THESE PATTERNS SHOW IN THE DATA.

RESOURCES:

TAKE THE GOOGLE ANALYTICS ESSENTIAL TRAINING COURSE ON LYNDA.COM

WATCH THE FINDING DATA PATTERNS WITH PIVOTTABLE SLICERS VIDEO ON LYNDA.COM

USE THE DATA PATTERNS WEBSITE TO BECOME MORE SAVVY ABOUT RECOGNIZING PATTERNS

PROCESS MODELING AND ANALYSIS

GOAL:

TO BE ABLE TO UTILIZE STATISTICAL MODELS AND SIMULATIONS THAT CAN BE APPLIED IN THE CREATION OR IMPROVEMENT OF BUSINESS PROCESSES ACROSS A WIDE RANGE OF FIELDS.

RESOURCES:

TAKE THE R STATISTICS ESSENTIAL TRAINING COURSE ON LYNDA.COM

TAKE THE SPSS STATISTICS ESSENTIAL TRAINING COURSE ON LYNDA.COM

TAKE THE DATA SCIENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING ESSENTIALS COURSE ON MICROSOFT VIRTUAL ACADEMY

DATA VISUALIZATION AND CREATIVE REPORTING

GOAL:

TO BE ABLE TO CREATE REPORTS/PRESENTATIONS THAT CONVEY COMPLEX INFORMATION IN A WAY THAT IS ELEGANT AND EASILY INTERPRETED BY ANY AUDIENCE.

RESOURCES:

TAKE THE DATA VISUALIZATION FUNDAMENTALS COURSE ON LYNDA.COM

TAKE THE DATA VISUALIZATION FOR DATA ANALYSTS COURSE ON LYNDA.COM

TAKE THE DESIGNING A DATA VISUALIZATION COURSE ON LYNDA.COM

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS

GOAL:

TO DEVELOP MY LISTENING AND QUESTION ASKING SKILLS SO THAT I AM ABLE TO PRODUCE DETAILED DATA-BASED PRESENTATIONS USING A WIDE VARIETY OF MEDIA.

RESOURCES:

TAKE THE CREATING INTERACTIVE DASHBOARDS IN TABLEAU COURSE ON LYNDA.COM

TAKE THE THINKING LIKE A LEADER COURSE ON LYNDA.COM

WATCH THE LISTEN EFFECTIVELY VIDEO ON LYNDA.COM

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE CASE STUDIES

GOAL:

TO DEVELOP ADVANCED PROBLEM SOLVING AND CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS WHICH WILL ALLOW ME TO DEVISE CREATIVE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS FOR ANY INDUSTRY.

RESOURCES:

TAKE THE INTERACTIVE DATA VISUALIZATION WITH PROCESSING COURSE ON LYNDA.COM

WATCH THE HOW DO I DETERMINE WHAT DATA I NEED TO SOLVE A PROBLEM VIDEO ON LYNDA.COM

WATCH THE BRAINSTORMING AND COLLECTING IDEAS VIDEO ON LYNDA.COM

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE CAPSTONE

GOAL:

TO PRODUCE MY FIRST MASTERPIECE. THIS CAPSTONE PROJECT WILL SHOWCASE THE SKILLS I HAVE ACQUIRED OVER THE LAST 12 MONTHS AS I DETAIL THE CREATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM SOLUTION. THIS PROJECT WILL BE DISPLAYED TO PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYERS AS AN EXAMPLE OF MY ABILITIES.

RESOURCES:

WATCH THE STRUCTURING AN EFFECTIVE PRESENTATION VIDEO ON LYNDA.COM

TAKE THE BUSINESS WRITING FUNDAMENTALS COURSE ON LYNDA.COM

TAKE THE BUSINESS WRITING STRATEGIES COURSE ON LYNDA.COM

INDUSTRY LEADERS

Jeff Hammerbacher Founder of Cloudera

email: jeff.hammerbacher@gmail.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jhammerb

Hicham Oudghiri CEO and Co-Founder of Enigma

email: hicham@enigma.io

Tumblr: http://merinids.tumblr.com/

Edward Tufte Statistician & Data Visualization Expert

email: edward.tufte@yale.edu

phone: 203.250.7007

Peter Norvig Director of Research at Google

email: pnorvig@google.com

website: norvig.com

Priyank Patel CPO and Co-Founder of Arcadia Data

phone: 415.680.3535

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/priyank-patel-b851814

Alex “Sandy” Pentland Professor at MIT

email: pentland@mit.edu

phone: 617.253.0648

ORGANIZATIONS I WILL JOIN

Organization: Digital Analytics Association Purpose: Professional development resources for data analysts. Website: http://www.digitalanalyticsassociation.org

Organization: Institute for Operations Research and The Management Sciences. Purpose: Bring together professionals in operational research, management science, and analytics. Website: https://www.informs.org

Organization: American Statistical Association Purpose: Professional community to showcase applied statistics and provide relevant education. Website: http://www.amstat.org

INNOVATIVE COMPANIES TO FOLLOW

Follow: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub on my feedly IBM Big Data on twitter @IBMbigdata IBM Analytics on twitter @IBMAnalytics

Follow: Splunk Blogs on my feedly Splunk on Twitter @splunk

Follow: Ayasdi Blog on my feedly Ayasdi on twitter @Ayasdi

THE FULL SAIL COMMUNITY

A place to network with other professional women who work in a variety of fields. This is a good place to find a possible mentor and learn from other women’s

experiences.

A great place to get to know other students, make friends, and build

networking relationships that can last through school and beyond.

The perfect place to learn more about social media trends and how to

establish an online presence.

CHARACTERISTICS OF A MENTOR

MY TIMELINE

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http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/

Feedly. (2016). Welcome to your work newsfeed. Retrieved January 29, 2016 from https://feedly.com/i/welcome

GitHub. (2016). Jeff Hammerbacher. Retrieved January 29, 2016 from https://github.com/hammer

Greene, R. (2012). Mastery. New York: Penguin Group

Greene, R. (2013). Mastery [Video File]. Retrieved January 29, 2016 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4v_34RRCeE

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http://www.hicham.io/

Informs. (2016). Retrieved January 29, 2016 from https://www.informs.org/

Khanacademy. (2016). You only need to know one thing: You can learn anything. Retrieve January 29, 2016 from

https://www.khanacademy.org/

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LinkedIn. (2016). Jeff Hammerbacher. Retrieved January 29, 2016 from https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhammerb

LinkedIn. (2016). Priyank Patel. Retrieved January 29, 2016 from https://www.linkedin.com/in/priyank-patel-b851814

Lynda.com. (2016). New skills. Improved skills. Now. Retrieved January 29, 2016 from http://www.lynda.com/

Microsoft Virtual Academy. (2016). Free Microsoft training delivered by experts. Retrieved January 29, 2016 from

https://mva.microsoft.com/Mit media lab. (n.d.). Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland. Retrieved January 29, 2016 from https://www.media.mit.edu/people/sandy

Peter Norvig. (n.d.). Peter@norvig.com. Retrieved January 29, 2016 from http://norvig.com/

Saraswat, M. (2015). 24 ultimate data scientists to follow in the world today. Analytics Vidhya. Retrieved

January 29, 2016 from http://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2015/09/ultimate-data-scientists-world-today/

Tagxedo. (2016). Welcome to tagxedo, word clouds with styles. Retrieved January 29, 2016 from

http://www.tagxedo.com/

Twitter. (2016). See what’s happening right now. Retrieved January 29, 2016 from https://twitter.com

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Note: All images used on slides are from Broderbund clipart software that I own.