Strategies For Building Challenge Entries

What You’ll Learn From This Episode
- The chance to have your work showcased across the Enterprise DNA network
- Receive personalized feedback around your development
- Learn from peers and experts in the industry.
- Try to ask questions and get answers from the business users
- Ask for the minimum amount of data and remove the majority of data you’re not going to use
- Use the Analyst Hub andcustomiseJSON files
- Visualize and decide what kind of story you want to tell
- I’d like to see where the data leads me. Colors and themes will come out after I figure out the data
- Seek out a subject matter expert. For me, it is about finding the intersection between what I can say that’s interesting about the data and what I can teach myself in the course of doing it
- It is all about finding an angle that is interesting and that speaks to people.
- Just get started and start digging into the data until things become easier
- Wireframing and sketching out what the pages look like helps
- Once my data model is good, I make sure everything is cleaned up and I make measures for everything I’ve hidden
- The most important thing is to get started, to keep things simple, and to use the native visuals. Beginners can be put off by a bright and shiny post. We’re all at different levels, so just put something together and show us what you’ve got
- Use the entries from the past challenges and dissect them, and then use your own spin on it
- There is no need to reinvent the wheel, just use the past entries and adapt it for your own purposes
- It doesn’t matter where you start. Pick a place that suits your learning curve. If you’re not comfortable with the challenges, there are other things you can do like the Accelerator
- If I wake up the next day and I’m still happy with the report, I’ll be ready to submit it
- Once I start second-guessing what I’ve done, then I know I should wrap things up
- I refer to the unwanted house guest threshold. Once I start asking “Why are you still here?” or “When are you going to leave,”that’sthe time I submit
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