Mastery Journey Timeline

1. MASTERY JOURNAL TIMELINE
BY KIMBERLY VALLEJO

2. GOAL:
TO IDENTIFY MY LIFE’S TASK AND GAIN
INSIGHT ON HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY
NAVIGATE THE STEPS FROM APPRENTICE
TO MASTER.
RESOURCES:
READ ROBERT GREENE’S BOOK “MASTERY”
WATCH THE UNDERSTAND THE SOCIAL CONTEXT VIDEO ON LYNDA.COM
WATCH THE ROBERT GREENE "MASTERY" - TALKS AT GOOGLE VIDEO ON YOUTUBE
MASTERY: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND LEADERSHIP

3. FOUNDATIONS OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
RESOURCES:
TAKE THE COURSE FOUNDATIONS OF BUSINESS ANALYTICS: PRESCRIPTIVE ANALYTICS ON
LYNDA.COM
TAKE THE COURSE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT FUNDAMENTALS ON LYNDA.COM
TAKE THE COURSE TIME MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS ON LYNDA.COM
GOAL:
TO MASTER THE BASICS OF BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE ARCHITECTURE AND
UNDERSTAND HOW BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS CAN BE USED TO
IMPROVE EXISTING BUSINESS PROCESSES.

4. ENTERPRISE DATA MANAGEMENT
GOAL:
TO LEARN TO DESIGN LOGICAL DATA
MODELS AND TO DEVELOP A BETTER
UNDERSTANDING OF THE SECURITY ISSUES
THAT MOBILE DEVICES AND CLOUD-BASED
SYSTEMS PRESENT.
RESOURCES:
TAKE THE COURSE THE MODERN ENTERPRISE DATA ENVIRONMENT ON LYNDA.COM
TAKE THE IMPLEMENTING A DATA WAREHOUSE WITH SQL SERVER JUMP START ON
MICROSOFT VIRTUAL ACADEMY
TAKE THE SECURITY IN A CLOUD-ENABLED WORLD ON MICROSOFT VIRTUAL ACADEMY

5. BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGIES
GOAL:
TO LEARN TO EXTRACT, TRANSFORM, AND
LOAD DATA WHILE GAINING INSIGHT INTO
HOW TO CHOOSE THE BEST DATA MINING
TOOL FOR THE CURRENT SITUATION.
RESOURCES:
TAKE THE SQL SERVER INTEGRATION SERVICES COURSE ON LYNDA.COM
TAKE THE HADOOP FUNDAMENTALS COURSE ON LYNDA.COM
TAKE THE DESIGNING BI SOLUTIONS WITH MICROSOFT SQL SERVER ON
MICROSOFT VIRTUAL ACADEMY

6. BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ANALYTICS
GOAL:
TO BECOME SKILLED IN THE USE OF
VARIOUS STATISTICAL METHODS IN ORDER
TO PRESENT MEANINGFUL INFORMATION
THAT WILL BE USED FOR PROBABILITY-
BASED DECISION MAKING.
RESOURCES:
TAKE THE BASICS OF DATA FOR ANALYTICS COURSE ON LYNDA.COM
TAKE THE INTRODUCTION TO DATA ANALYSIS WITH PYTHON COURSE ON LYNDA.COM
TAKE STATISTICS COURSE ON KHANACADEMY.COM

7. DATA MINING
GOAL:
TO BE ABLE TO USE ALGORITHMS TO
EXTRACT INFORMATION FROM LARGE DATA
SETS AND TO DEVELOP A BETTER
UNDERSTANDING OF MACHINE LEARNING
AND HOW IT IS USED IN BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE PROCESSES.
RESOURCES:
TAKE THE EXCEL DATA-MINING FUNDAMENTALS COURSE ON LYNDA.COM
TAKE THE UP AND RUNNING WITH EXCEL CLUSTER ANALYSIS COURSE ON LYNDA.COM
TAKE R AND PYTHON COURSES ON DATACAMP.COM

8. PATTERNS AND RECOGNITION
GOAL:
TO BECOME SKILLED AT RECOGNIZING
PATTERNS IN DATA AND TO BE ABLE TO
DEVELOP CONCLUSIONS BASED ON THE
RELATIONSHIPS THESE PATTERNS SHOW
IN THE DATA.
RESOURCES:
TAKE THE GOOGLE ANALYTICS ESSENTIAL TRAINING COURSE ON LYNDA.COM
WATCH THE FINDING DATA PATTERNS WITH PIVOTTABLE SLICERS VIDEO ON LYNDA.COM
USE THE DATA PATTERNS WEBSITE TO BECOME MORE SAVVY ABOUT RECOGNIZING PATTERNS

9. PROCESS MODELING AND ANALYSIS
GOAL:
TO BE ABLE TO UTILIZE
STATISTICAL MODELS AND
SIMULATIONS THAT CAN BE
APPLIED IN THE CREATION OR
IMPROVEMENT OF BUSINESS
PROCESSES ACROSS A WIDE
RANGE OF FIELDS.
RESOURCES:
TAKE THE R STATISTICS ESSENTIAL TRAINING COURSE ON LYNDA.COM
TAKE THE SPSS STATISTICS ESSENTIAL TRAINING COURSE ON LYNDA.COM
TAKE THE DATA SCIENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING ESSENTIALS COURSE ON
MICROSOFT VIRTUAL ACADEMY

10. DATA VISUALIZATION AND CREATIVE REPORTING
GOAL:
TO BE ABLE TO CREATE REPORTS/
PRESENTATIONS THAT CONVEY COMPLEX
INFORMATION IN A WAY THAT IS ELEGANT
AND EASILY INTERPRETED BY ANY
AUDIENCE.
RESOURCES:
TAKE THE DATA VISUALIZATION FUNDAMENTALS COURSE ON LYNDA.COM
TAKE THE DATA VISUALIZATION FOR DATA ANALYSTS COURSE ON LYNDA.COM
TAKE THE DESIGNING A DATA VISUALIZATION COURSE ON LYNDA.COM

11. BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS
GOAL:
TO DEVELOP MY LISTENING AND QUESTION
ASKING SKILLS SO THAT I AM ABLE TO
PRODUCE DETAILED DATA-BASED
PRESENTATIONS USING A WIDE VARIETY OF
MEDIA.
RESOURCES:
TAKE THE CREATING INTERACTIVE DASHBOARDS IN TABLEAU COURSE ON LYNDA.COM
TAKE THE THINKING LIKE A LEADER COURSE ON LYNDA.COM
WATCH THE LISTEN EFFECTIVELY VIDEO ON LYNDA.COM

12. BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE CASE STUDIES
GOAL:
TO DEVELOP ADVANCED PROBLEM SOLVING
AND CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS WHICH
WILL ALLOW ME TO DEVISE CREATIVE
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS FOR
ANY INDUSTRY.
RESOURCES:
TAKE THE INTERACTIVE DATA VISUALIZATION WITH PROCESSING COURSE ON LYNDA.COM
WATCH THE HOW DO I DETERMINE WHAT DATA I NEED TO SOLVE A PROBLEM VIDEO ON
LYNDA.COM
WATCH THE BRAINSTORMING AND COLLECTING IDEAS VIDEO ON LYNDA.COM

13. BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE CAPSTONE
GOAL:
TO PRODUCE MY FIRST MASTERPIECE. THIS
CAPSTONE PROJECT WILL SHOWCASE THE
SKILLS I HAVE ACQUIRED OVER THE LAST 12
MONTHS AS I DETAIL THE CREATION AND
IMPLEMENTATION OF A BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM SOLUTION. THIS
PROJECT WILL BE DISPLAYED TO PROSPECTIVE
EMPLOYERS AS AN EXAMPLE OF MY ABILITIES.
RESOURCES:
WATCH THE STRUCTURING AN EFFECTIVE PRESENTATION VIDEO ON LYNDA.COM
TAKE THE BUSINESS WRITING FUNDAMENTALS COURSE ON LYNDA.COM
TAKE THE BUSINESS WRITING STRATEGIES COURSE ON LYNDA.COM

14. INDUSTRY LEADERS
Jeff Hammerbacher
Founder of Cloudera
email: jeff.hammerbacher@gmail.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jhammerb
Hicham Oudghiri
CEO and Co-Founder of Enigma
email: hicham@enigma.io
Tumblr: http://merinids.tumblr.com/
Edward Tufte
Statistician & Data Visualization Expert
email: edward.tufte@yale.edu
phone: 203.250.7007
Peter Norvig
Director of Research at Google
email: pnorvig@google.com
website: norvig.com
Priyank Patel
CPO and Co-Founder of Arcadia Data
phone: 415.680.3535
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/priyank-patel-b851814
Alex “Sandy” Pentland
Professor at MIT
email: pentland@mit.edu
phone: 617.253.0648

15. ORGANIZATIONS I WILL JOIN
Organization: Digital Analytics Association
Purpose: Professional development resources
for data analysts.
Website: http://www.digitalanalyticsassociation.org
Organization: Institute for Operations Research and
The Management Sciences.
Purpose: Bring together professionals in operational
research, management science, and analytics.
Website: https://www.informs.org
Organization: American Statistical Association
Purpose: Professional community to showcase applied
statistics and provide relevant education.
Website: http://www.amstat.org

16. INNOVATIVE COMPANIES TO FOLLOW
Follow:
IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub on my feedly
IBM Big Data on twitter @IBMbigdata
IBM Analytics on twitter @IBMAnalytics
Follow:
Splunk Blogs on my feedly
Splunk on Twitter @splunk
Follow:
Ayasdi Blog on my feedly
Ayasdi on twitter @Ayasdi

17. THE FULL SAIL COMMUNITY
A place to network with other professional
women who work in a variety of fields.
This is a good place to find a possible
mentor and learn from other women’s
experiences.
A great place to get to know other
students, make friends, and build
networking relationships that can last
through school and beyond.
The perfect place to learn more about
social media trends and how to
establish an online presence.

18. CHARACTERISTICS OF A MENTOR

19. MY TIMELINE

20. REFERENCES:
American Statistical Association. (2016). Retrieved January 29, 2016 from http://www.amstat.org/
Creative student networking group. (n.d.). Retrieved January 29, 2016 from https://orgsync.com/57437/chapter
DataCamp. (2016). The easiest way to learn data science. Retrieved January 29, 2016 from https://www.datacamp.com/
Data Patterns. (2016). Data patterns. Retrieved January 29, 2016 from http://datapatterns.org/
Digital Analytics Association. (2016). Your community, your collaboration, your daa. Retrieved January 29, 2016
from http://www.digitalanalyticsassociation.org/
Digitalu. (n.d.). Retrieved January 29, 2016 from https://orgsync.com/130305/chapter
Edward Tufte. (n.d.). The work of edward tufte and graphics press. Retrieved January 29, 2016 from
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/
Feedly. (2016). Welcome to your work newsfeed. Retrieved January 29, 2016 from https://feedly.com/i/welcome
GitHub. (2016). Jeff Hammerbacher. Retrieved January 29, 2016 from https://github.com/hammer
Greene, R. (2012). Mastery. New York: Penguin Group
Greene, R. (2013). Mastery [Video File]. Retrieved January 29, 2016 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4v_34RRCeE
Hicham Oudghiri. (n.d.). I am hicham oudghiri, co-founder and ceo at enigma. Retrieve January 29, 2016 from
http://www.hicham.io/
Informs. (2016). Retrieved January 29, 2016 from https://www.informs.org/
Khanacademy. (2016). You only need to know one thing: You can learn anything. Retrieve January 29, 2016 from
https://www.khanacademy.org/

21. REFERENCES:
LinkedIn. (2016). Jeff Hammerbacher. Retrieved January 29, 2016 from https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhammerb
LinkedIn. (2016). Priyank Patel. Retrieved January 29, 2016 from https://www.linkedin.com/in/priyank-patel-b851814
Lynda.com. (2016). New skills. Improved skills. Now. Retrieved January 29, 2016 from http://www.lynda.com/
Microsoft Virtual Academy. (2016). Free Microsoft training delivered by experts. Retrieved January 29, 2016 from
https://mva.microsoft.com/
Mit media lab. (n.d.). Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland. Retrieved January 29, 2016 from https://www.media.mit.edu/people/sandy
Peter Norvig. (n.d.). Peter@norvig.com. Retrieved January 29, 2016 from http://norvig.com/
Saraswat, M. (2015). 24 ultimate data scientists to follow in the world today. Analytics Vidhya. Retrieved
January 29, 2016 from http://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2015/09/ultimate-data-scientists-world-today/
Tagxedo. (2016). Welcome to tagxedo, word clouds with styles. Retrieved January 29, 2016 from
http://www.tagxedo.com/
Twitter. (2016). See what’s happening right now. Retrieved January 29, 2016 from https://twitter.com
Women of Full Sail. (n.d.). Retrieved January 29, 2016 from https://orgsync.com/56208/chapter
Note: All images used on slides are from Broderbund clipart software that I own.