Adrienne's Journey

As I drove up to my local grocery store today, November 10th, 45 days until Christmas, there they were: Christmas Trees for Sale. Gone are the mums, scare crows, skeletons and pumpkins. The haunted houses, haunted corn fields and haunted car washes have all shut down. The tiny humans dressed as monsters, princesses and superheroes…

So, I’ve been learning Tableau for my project and although I’ve merely scratched the surface of all its capabilities, I am quite impressed so far. The project I’m working on has a massive amount of data, with hundreds of millions of rows of data and although it can get a bit slow at times, Tableau…

6:15 wake up and stare into space. I don’t need to be up yet, but my body won’t let me sleep in, no matter how late I go to bed. Read the news on my phone until 6:45 when I expect to hear my 6th grader head downstairs to grab breakfast before school. 6:50 –…

Here I am completing a journey that was started almost 20 years ago. When I graduated high school in 2003 I started college as a Comp Sci major. I made very good grades in high school with very little effort, but my computer science courses were a shock to my system. I hadn’t learned how…