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Long Beach, CA

How Are You? Check in please!

ThizViz
11 - Bolide

Hi Everyone,

 

Just wanted to take a minute to check in, say hi, and see how you're doing.

 

The last few weeks have been adventurous, to put it mildly.

 

So I have 3 discussion topics (2 of which I stole from the Alteryx User Group leaders meeting):

 

1. What's the hardest thing about working from home (or other recent adjustments)?

 

2. What's the easiest/best thing?

 

3. Share one of your favorite videos, links, memes, articles - whether inspirational, funny, or informative.

 

I'll start:

1. The hardest thing is that I really miss spontaneous face-to-face interactions

2. The best thing is there's barely any prep time for work and I can sleep later or get up and do something fun, like the jigsaw puzzle I did this morning!

3. This is my new favorite chart:

COVIZ.jfif

@thizviz aka cbridges, Bolide
http://community.alteryx.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2328
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NJT
11 - Bolide

Hi Everyone hope you're all healthy and staying sane!

 

1. What's the hardest thing about working from home (or other recent adjustments)? I've been working from home for the past 5 years, so the only real change for me is school not happening but that was a relatively new thing for us anyway so for me it's like we just time warped back to Spring of 2019 with more rain. I miss being able to go to coffee shops to escape the house for a few hours a week though... and seeing humans

 

2. What's the easiest/best thing? Knowing that everyone else is now also working in their pajamas all day

 

3. Share one of your favorite videos, links, memes, articles - whether inspirational, funny, or informative. Here's the most confusing dashboard out of this thing... why are auto sales up 70% in NJ last week vs the week before? 

 

https://public.tableau.com/profile/foureyes#!/vizhome/U_S_AutoSales/SalesbyState

ThizViz
11 - Bolide

That's a great question! Maybe people are buying cars they can't drive because prices are probably at an all-time low?

@thizviz aka cbridges, Bolide
http://community.alteryx.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2328
abe_ibanez
7 - Meteor

Hello, 

 

I think it has to do with an abnormally small denominator. Some of these states' weekly sales have dropped so much from pre-pandemic times that looking at weekly change is almost like trying to divide by zero. 

Very interesting dashboard though. If you look at 3/17-4/13 vs the previous 4-week period it really shows how hard the industry has been hit. 

NJT
11 - Bolide

That’s definitely it, they sold 1 car the prior period and a handful the next period... this is why some visualizations really should include a table of the numbers.