Coffee Chain (Tableau Information Visualization)

Information Visualization Week 5

Coffee Chain (Different product copy and their profit)

Due Sept 23, 2014

By: Kevin Ko

스크린샷 2014-09-21 오후 10.16.08

The world coffee chain data contained variety of interesting data. The one that caught my eyes of different type of coffee that are sold in four different markets, central, east, south and west. I am coffee mania, who must have coffee in the morning to start the day, so I wanted to see witch type of coffee sells most in the market, so I picked profit of each coffee as another value of my graph. I wanted to compare each type of coffee through their profit, so I chose bar graph to clearly compare them. The interesting information was people in the east, drinks lots of Colombian coffee. I want to research the coffee shops in my neighbor hood, Manhattan, to see if this data is true or not. I decide to do research on my neighborhood coffee shops to see Colombian coffee is really popular in East area.

Who are you? My name is Kevin Ko, born 1995 May 3rd in South Korea. Our family moved to Canada, Toronto, when I was 10. I graduate elementary school, middle and high school in Canada, so I can speak both English and Korean fluently. I am very comfortable working in groups since I have experiences working with lots different groups. I was in football and rugby team for 5 years, and captain of both teams for 2 years. I also was part of student council member for 1 year as accountant. The experience working with team was usually harder then working alone, therefore I used to prefer work in individual. However, when I was chosen to be a captain of sport team and voted by students to become a member of student council change my personality and view toward teamwork. The first ever team experience I had was in 9th grade, when I got scouted to join the team by football coach. I did not have any experiences with football or playing with other team members, so most of time I did not get much plays time like others. My skill was not good enough to play with others and most of time I refuse to communicate with my team members. I guess word; “jerk” fits my past self. However I hate losing or look down upon by others. After the season I spend my whole time training alone to improve. When next season came, I became best lineman in the team and chosen as one of six captains. It was my first experience as leader, so I did not know how to lead others so I just focus on just playing my position in the team. I learn from other team captains, who were actually leading the team. I observe their style of leadership and tried to adapt their good quality as leader. Due to this effort I end it leading my football and rugby team until the end of my high school year. My team and school friends recognized my leadership; I ended up winning election as accountant in school. I was able to gain lots of experience as leader but also as a team. The self-center jerk has turned in to leader, who is always eager to learn and observe. I have discovered, when I started to take leading position and as group member, I found out my strong and weak side in working in team. My strong side as team member is that I am good at recognizing our teammates’ strength and weakness, so I am very good at distributing works. Due to three years as a leader in the team made me very confident speaker and decision maker. I am also not afraid of failing, because I think failing is just another step to success. One the other hand my weakness as working in team is that I have very bossy nature. I tend to make lots of decision for the team and sometimes get pushy and pressure on my teammates. This is reason why I think I am more suitable as teammates, who mostly helps in setting up the meeting time, and organizing the work. I will succeed in team if I have leader who can strongly fight against my bit arrogant personality. Through this creative team course, I am hoping to fix my weakness to take one more step as becoming a good leader. I want to have my own business some day, so it important for me to consistently improves my self.

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