Last week was Project Review and I was really nervous about it because there wasn’t much work that I had done to show it to the Professor. I’m still waiting on some data from the client and they assured me that I will get it by this week. But unfortunately, they declined the use of the software Tableau in my work laptop.
Tableau license requires special permission from the IT department and my manager. It turns out the license costs about 1600$ which they are not ready to pay for a Capstone project as they have no use of Tableau after that. It’s sad because I tried to download my free student account into my work laptop as well but they denied administrative privileges to me saying that usually no external software is allowed to be downloaded. Lots of back and forth discussion went on for this. I also talked to my Professor about the situation and she also offered a lending hand to figure out the situation by introducing me to a few people in the university. But I manager wasn’t on board with that.
So I have finally taken the decision to stop wasting time by pursuing something that may irk the client. I have just decided to go ahead and make all the charts and visualize data in Excel itself or I can even use Arcgis software in my workplace which I’m good at. Not getting Tableau is a major setback as Tableau frees you from explaining a lot on data as the dashboards will be more captivating to read and navigable. But I just have to bounce from this and move on as time is money and I don’t have time to spare. Only 9 more weeks left to complete Capstone and that’s not a lot of time.
Meanwhile, I also have to look for a full time position soon and there’s a lot of pressure associated with that as well. One thing I learned from my client is that, they do not need a lot of explanation as to what’s my journey or what I did to get my results, which is disappointing. All they want is results and it doesn’t matter how I got it. Still getting used to corporate life, which I’m just getting used to.
-Bhavya Mohan
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