r/financialindependence • u/fidgit86 • 9d ago

What do you do that you earn six figures?

It seems like a lot of people make a lot of money and it seems like I’m missing out on something. So those of you that do, whats your occupation that pays so well?

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u/Z_BabbleBlox 9d ago

Explain causality to people who should know better.

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u/szayl 9d ago

Gotta make em a Tableau dashboard...

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u/trudith 9d ago

Stop you’re triggering me 😂

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u/evert198201 9d ago

Nice! I still have to try Tableau but first exploring MS power BI...

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u/catdog918 9d ago

How is power bi? My company will be making the switch to them soon

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u/RedAero 9d ago

PowerBI can barely do any more than Excel already can with PowerPivot, and is hell to work with if you have large data sets and you know SQL. If you're ignorant of SQL and you're happy to straight-up import all your data (as opposed to preferring to offload the crunching to the million-dollar server), you might enjoy it, but in my experience the people usually tasked with actually using BI software are more technical-minded than that. I usually end up doing 90% of the work server-side in SSMS and then just using one, pre-prepared custom view/table and only doing the viz in PBI. Theoretically it integrates with O365 so you'd think deployment is a breeze but be prepared to bang your head against the wall of permissions required.

That said, I've only casually used Tableau on small, exercise data sets, so I can't accurate compare the to.

Oh, and PBI can't do many-to-many joins. Fuck that.

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u/evert198201 9d ago

I am using the desktop app for now in combination with excel sheets, performance is pretty slow and it crashes somethimes, could be the sheets that exceeds 25k records.

I tried Tableau once quickly and their UI seemed very nice compared to BI, however since we already use office365 power bi integrates better.

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u/catdog918 9d ago edited 9d ago

Interesting, we’re using tableau right now and their ui is nice but they’re more expensive for the company and bi integrates like you said. Tableau can be annoying sometimes but it’s fairly easy to learn.

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u/productivenef 9d ago

When I was in project management I didn't have access to edit Tableau or Power BI. When Google Data Studio came out I started fuckin killin it at the dashboard game... And it was all being fed by my Google Sheets 😍

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u/here4thePho 9d ago

i love google data studio, its just so easy and simple like any google product. power BI is soooo slow.

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u/Aesthetically 9d ago

I have like four years of Tableau experience and about two years Power BI experience. My Power BI rarely crashed and I had pretty large data sets in it (far above 25k). Tableau rarely crashes either, but the prep software I use crashes and hangs daily.

I think Power BI is massively better than Tableau. Data transformation is powerful and in-app, which Tableau struggles with. Tableau needs a separate solution to do any intermediate data transformation. The formulas in PBI are much more flexible than Tableau, and the visualization Features are just as good if not better.

Sure, Tableau Server is nice and my company operates effectively on it.. But Power BI always felt like a clear winner.

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u/catdog918 9d ago

Interesting, I’m excited to try it out. I’ve found tableau to be smooth but at times it seems like you’re limited in what you can do. I’ve heard bi is better from a few friends but never got around to trying it.

It just feels weird cuz the company I work for just implemented tableau a few months ago. They’re a tad slow to implement new technologies but I guess that comes with being a large power company in the northeast, no competition so no real urgent incentive to be cutting edge in that regard.

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u/Buzanderr 9d ago

Is the switch safe ? Otherwise I can highly recommend checking out Qlik. Big focus on self service and more transparent pricing model than PBI

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u/catdog918 9d ago

I should say *company I work for.

It’s a very large company and analysts have no real say in what software the company wants to use.

I will bring up Qlik though as you aren’t the first person to recommend it.

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u/Buzanderr 9d ago

Classy, the pain of greater enterprises.

If you guys want some insights or whatever hit me up

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u/Imbtfab 9d ago

Tableau is absolute dog shit if you're working with large datasets, the query engine sucks so much and can't build a decent query even if their life depended on it. You have to be real particular about the controls you add, the order they're added and whatnot or they will kill your db. We started using it some 3-4 years ago and throwing it away, hopefully soon.

On top of this, so many things that should be real simple to do, is very hard or not possible at all. Run out of disk space because their non rotating log files ate it all up? Have fun manually deleting and them reinstalling Tableau. License won't update? Have fun reinstalling. It's slow as hell for startup and shutdown. A component won't start? Wait the 30 mins it takes to restart the server, only to realize it doesn't work... reinstall time. I could go on, but already fuming for thinking about this crap software on my day off.

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u/xceled 9d ago

What are you migrating to?

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u/Imbtfab 8d ago

We're still considering our options. We have a project going on for a bit evaluating ElasticSearch/Kibana. Alternatively go back to make dashboards with code. They're all on web, we only use the Tableau client to make the dashboards and publish them(which is troublesome in itself as it's on a different network). It's so much faster to make on web compared to Tableau, lower cost, less hacks to get around Tableau limitations and doesn't require tailormade databases for specific dashboards. Now we need to duplicate the data in different dbs with just slight changes and it affects the whole ETL process.

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u/Eightstream 9d ago

Can I export it to Excel?

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u/BrainRemmington 9d ago

This is super relevant to my work lately and so pardon my excitement, but Looker is dope.

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u/catdog918 9d ago

Literally doing that rn