# Build a Unique Data Viz Portofilio with Judit Bekker | Tableau Conversations

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2024-07-23
- **Format:** Video · 64 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Career, Tool strategy
- **Tools:** Power BI; Tableau (public)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/build-a-unique-data-viz-portofilio-with-judit-bekker-tableau-conversations
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSiSWY90pjw

I sit down with Judit Bekker to break down the brand-new portfolio website she launched a month ago. We cover why she rebuilt it, how she curated her visualisations, the conscious choices she made around Tableau Public and other platforms, and a wider conversation about learning Tableau, shifting tools and the data career.

## Key takeaways

- Order your Tableau Public profile by your best or most representative work, not by recency or popularity — your most-viewed viz is rarely the one that actually represents you.
- Treat a portfolio web page as a gallery of static images plus links rather than embedding live Tableau dashboards, because images scale reliably across every browser and device while embeds do not.
- Curate ruthlessly: Judit had over a hundred vizzes but showed a compact, wide-ranging selection so visitors aren't overwhelmed.
- Over 40% of portfolio traffic now comes from mobile, yet most poster-style vizzes were never designed for mobile — a strong case for image previews over forcing a mobile layout.
- Working in other tools like Google Looker can make you appreciate Tableau's design finesse, while reframing fonts and formatting gripes as minor compared with reporting and data-modelling problems.

## Chapters

- 0:00 Why portfolios matter
- 0:58 Meeting Judit Bekker
- 5:53 Learning Tableau's steep curve
- 7:37 Inconsistent tool terminology
- 12:00 How the tool landscape is shifting
- 15:42 The analytics engineering debate
- 17:47 Building a new portfolio website
- 24:40 Curating what makes the cut
- 28:19 A tour of the website
- 34:51 Designing for mobile
- 38:38 Tableau Public's limitations
- 52:55 Conferences and burnout

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/build-a-unique-data-viz-portofilio-with-judit-bekker-tableau-conversations

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