Calvin Gao

Quick Read:

  • Majors: Economics, Psychology, Data Science (Wesleyan University)

  • Current Position: Tableau/Alteryx Consultant at The Information Lab (NYC)

  • Additional Skills: Tableau, Alteryx, R, SQL


Details:

Calvin began his data journey at Wesleyan University's Quantitative Analysis Center (QAC), where he discovered a passion for unraveling its complexities. Post-graduation, armed with degrees in Economics, Psychology, and Applied Data Science, he pursued further enrichment at The Information Lab where he became a Tableau Certified Data Analyst and Alteryx Designer Advanced Certified professional, a testament to his fervor for mastering data tools.

Calvin is now a Tableau/Alteryx Consultant at The Information Lab working with clients to find business insights and provide value from Tableau dashboards, decreasing time to insight, and maintaining important data refreshes.

Calvin has been working for 7 months with a financial institution as a Data Analyst - Tableau Specialist. During this time, Calvin has created a production dashboard - saving a Data Analyst 3 hours of time each week, enhanced 5 production dashboards - providing further value for stakeholders as they use the dashboard, wrote documentation files with step by step on how to maintain up to date dashboards - creating a consistent format and Tableau Prep flows for future Data Analysts who needs to refresh dashboards, reduced dashboard load time by following Tableau's workbook optimization guidelines and successfully reduced average dashboard load times compared to the previous quarter. In addition, Calvin has been maintaining the data refreshes of production dashboards, keeping the data up to date while monitoring the overall Tableau Cloud site to troubleshoot any errors within in regards to data refreshes.

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