John Thompson

Business Analyst turned Product Manager. Always learning something new and changing my mind.

[John Thompson @JohnMThom]

@nicoritschel Any of them will get 80% of the jobs done. Right now, Metabase is my go to for most things.

[John Thompson @JohnMThom]

@ehansalytics I use it to send myself ad hoc reminders when I’m away from work. “Remember to update x in the mornin g”

[John Thompson @JohnMThom]

These are excellent

[John Thompson @JohnMThom]

@shaunisspatial Tableau is propping up the data blogosphere

[John Thompson @JohnMThom]

@NateSooter Fascinating how simple things like this have been left at the side of the road while they move everyone to Cloud and pump AI solutions

[John Thompson @JohnMThom]

Amazing that we worked remote through Covid for years and still have daily virtual meetings yet people still can't figure out how to mute and unmute their mics.

[John Thompson @JohnMThom]

Biggest squandering of premier market position, Tableau or Alteryx?

[Shaun Davis @DataShaun]

This is the fundamental shift the #datafam have experienced with #tableau

We drank the Koolaid during the “Grow it to the moon” times, but Salesforce is just a really big Holdco to milk it for all its worth.

[John Thompson @JohnMThom]

Pre-workout hype song.

[John Thompson @JohnMThom]

@kenzietuff DC-8. First plane I worked on while at UPS where I started my career. Hard work, fun work, paid nothing. Gave me an appreciation for learning new skills and trying new stuff.

[John Thompson @JohnMThom]

I put it at a solid 22 minutes for best results

[Microsoft Power Platform @MSPowerPlat]

How long is the ideal midday Power nap?

[John Thompson @JohnMThom]

Chickadees being very chatty this afternoon

[John Thompson @JohnMThom]

Can’t wait for the next in 2055

[Sickos Committee @SickosCommittee]

SINCE 1991???!!!!!!!

[John Thompson @JohnMThom]

@RedditCFB Works best as the State Fair uses the U of M parking lots on the weekend too

[John Thompson @JohnMThom]

@shaunisspatial Depends what you are doing, but the obvious choice is Power BI. Not many other tools out there with comprehensive capabilities to match PBI and Tableau.

[John Thompson @JohnMThom]

Clean, efficient, readable. 10/10

[tom ッ @tom_antok]

When you ask backend developer to make frontend

[John Thompson @JohnMThom]

I recently told a recruiter what my desired rate was and they laughed and said, “Have you worked with a recruiter before?” and then offered me less than I make now.

[Alex Dupler @alexdupler]

@pdrmnvd The worst part is that they don't actually want to hire you either.

Just a version of you they have in their head that will work for peanuts.

[John Thompson @JohnMThom]

I had a great week off of work last week and finished four books! Great to relax and enjoy

[John Thompson @JohnMThom]

Hugo has been good to me lately. Host it on GitHub pages, easy peasy.

[Vic 📠 @VicVijayakumar]

You need to build a new static website. It will be the marketing site for your app.

What do you use to build it?

[John Thompson @JohnMThom]

Tableau: “Look at this amazing visualization made with our tool!

Plus Adobe Illustrator, Figma, PowerPoint”

[Chris Meardon @chris_vizes]

Business dashboards with backgrounds made in tools like Figma mislead business users and dashboard developers into thinking this is a practical approach. I don't understand why Tableau pushes them to the front of Public so much

[John Thompson @JohnMThom]

Chickadees and chipping sparrows were visiting today.