Thank you

by Tram Nguyen

4-months of intensive training officially wrapped up with joy. It’s difficult to summarize my feeling throughout this whole period by a few concrete words because it’s a combination of everything:
“excited”, “nervous”, “stressed”, “thrilled”, “satisfied”, “disappointed”, “frustrated”, “exhausted”, “proud” ... etc. After these incredible 4 months, I am amazed at how much progress I’ve made in all aspects. Before Data School, I gave me score “4 out of 10” for Tableau skill but now, looking back on the previous learning path, I feel a little embarrassed for giving myself such a generous score back then. Data School is an eye-opening experience to me, in which I got a chance to get exposed to world-class data strategy, data warehouse concept, analytic techniques, and designing interactive dashboards. Everyday there is always someone sharing inspirational stuff in Convo, all sorts of great things, making your day delighter or at least less miserable. In data school, I got encouraged to freely develop my ideas, my thoughts and implement them in the work, which I have never been able to do so far. That’s what makes data school so great :D

I feel thankful because I finally found a work that I am so motivated about without forcing myself to do. I feel thankful for the devoted instructions of you guys, our lovely coaches: Andy, Peter, Martin, Lorna, Ruth, Moritz, Carl, Robbin, Pouya and also my thanks to those who spent time with us for just one session. You all deserve credit for your passion to pass on knowledge dedicatedly, for your patience of being bombarded with so many questions (what we learn is not a piece of cake), and for calmly solving so many technical errors in the sessions.

It cannot go well without my fantastic group: Romina, Frederik, Nhung, Tanya, Kristine, Mary-Leena, Oksana ❤.  We are a group of diversity, backgrounds, nationalities, ages, however, it does not prevent us from being harmonized and supportive to the other. One more time, I’m so thankful to have worked you guys in Data School. We have overcome so many challenges together, helped each other solving one’s own problems and pushed each other to jump out of their comfort zone.

Maybe the best word that describes my feeling right now is “Proud”. I am very proud of my journey until now. These Dashboards will be forever my own assets, though there are still drawbacks but they were done with all my heart and soul. Thanks to Data School, I know that my learning never ends, it just transforms from one phase to the next. We have touched on so many interesting topics in data analytics, which I would love to dive more into.

Alright, I will stop writing now but the echo will resonate for a while.