Patrick R. McElhiney has been learning Tableau Desktop at school, at the University of New Hampshire, Manchester. The program is used by businesses to display graphics that are consistent with their large databases of data. The program connects to many different types of database servers, such as Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and others.
Patrick is learning the basics of how to use the program with large data sets, such as sales data, orders data, and even with product lines and other target markets and products & services industries. The program requires an extensive background in programming - it doesn't just produce these nice graphics easily. You actually have to know what you're doing.
When Patrick McElhiney first started taking the class, he thought it was going to be easy. It's actually turning out to be a very difficult class. McElhiney thinks he will be able to use the experience to help executives, in whatever company he goes to work for, to produce 'sick graphics' for investors and the public to review. He believes that his skills with this program will be significantly responsible for raising additional capital for any company he goes to work for, with his business background in Marketing Management, and his computer programming skills that can be put to work for this purpose.
Patrick R. McElhiney doesn't just 'show up' for school - he's the only student he can accredit to his level of skills, in such detail, in which he pursues every possible avenue of intelligence gathering and development, for the purpose of building skills that can be utilized to their highest capabilities when Patrick does go to work for a company. He is committed to a corporate culture, regardless of where he goes to work, that he will contribute the highest possible amount of financial gain to the company as he is possible to contribute - not just the minimum requirement of a position. This pledge corresponds to the level of academic dedication he has made in his academic career - borrowing more to take more classes than what is required of his degree, and spending 100% of his available time to working on school work - without a personal life.
