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MATTHEW FARKAS: I interned
at Spotify this past summer.

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I'm a current student at Northwestern
in their Master of Science and Analytics

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program.

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And I'll be returning
to Spotify in January

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as a full-time associate data scientist.

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I really like working
with data and using

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it to provide value to businesses.

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I knew that I wanted to work
at a music streaming company.

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I've always loved music.

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And obviously, I'm also very
interested in data and data analytics.

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So I kind of had the
idea to build something

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from scratch to show my passion for
music and data at the same time.

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Once I built my own
data set, I actually use

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Tableau to visualize all my results.

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And that was my final choice for
what I would be using as a medium

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to share with my internship application.

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So once I had finished my dashboard,
once I made all my final changes,

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I just saved it, uploaded
it to Tableau Public.

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When I was actually filling
out my Spotify application,

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it was really simple for me
just to, you know, copy the URL.

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And I actually just
hyperlinked it in a text box

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that they had in the application.

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So it was really easy for whoever was
looking at it just to click that link,

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and it would hop over to my Tableau
Public page and see my work.

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I think it had a really big
impact on my application

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and really, essentially got me
my job interning last summer.

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So far, Tableau has definitely
had an impact on my career.

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I think it helped a lot
with giving me a platform

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to express both my passion
and my skill and use

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that to apply for an internship,
which was really valuable.

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I guess my advice for any
future students trying to learn

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is, just don't be afraid.

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Just hop right in.

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And, you know, go at it full force.

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