 What's going on everybody? Welcome back to another video. Today we're going to be reviewing Maven Analytics new portfolios to see if they're any good. Now quick introduction if you don't know what Maven Analytics is. It is a website or a company that basically helps you become a data analyst. They have courses and learning paths and a lot of other stuff on their website and something new that they just recently launched is their online portfolios. Now I've talked about the importance of having a portfolio on this channel many times because I really do think it's important to showcase your skills and show potential employers where you're at. I've even shown you how to create your own portfolio website using github pages and kind of walked you through how to use Wix but this is an entirely different option that I think is really interesting. So we're just going to review it and see what it's like and see if it's any good see if it's worth putting your projects here and kind of creating your portfolio on their website and full disclosure they did give me access to be able to do this review so shout out to Maven Analytics but that will not skew my review in any way. I promise you I'll just kind of show you everything while I'll review it and then at the end I'll kind of build my own and see how I like their interface and see how it all works. Okay so I have many tabs pulled up because these are kind of all the things that I want to show you. The first thing is this is their portfolio showcase you can see this right up here and this is kind of where they showcase different people's projects and every project that you put in your portfolio is public so anybody can see it. So if we scroll down right here we have this winner so Gerard Dugan he was featured so you can see his stuff and you can see a bunch of other projects. This is actually really nice if you are looking for inspiration for like visuals or different projects this is a fantastic place to go this isn't the purpose of this review but just a side note is a really good place to look and it looks like some of these are just like placeholders but that's this is like the showcase where they showcase your project. Now I can create a project let's click on this I can create my own project and it's going to bring me here. Now I'm going to come here in just a little bit actually I'm not going to start this right now because I'm going to try to do that in a little bit I'll create my own but Chris who is the CEO of Maiden Analytics on his LinkedIn share this exact profile and I just wanted to show it to you guys because I thought it was interesting as well this is kind of what a finished portfolio looks like so let's just scroll through here really quickly see what it looks like see what's all in it and then you know we'll give our give our feedback so it looks like he has some like header I don't know if that's auto-generated or if that's something that come or you know you can customize that but we hon rules I mean all this is totally public so you can't you know this isn't like a private thing that you can just share to recruiters anybody can go in here and click it like kind of like a website so it looks like here are his projects and they have gifts like I'm sure you can do like a picture or a gift or something like that or Jeff however you want to say it and then he has this this about section we even have work experience so it looks like this guy is not new to this industry he was an accountant then he became an analyst in 2016 and now he's a senior specialist business intelligence currently so you can put your work experience you can also do your education these are mostly just Microsoft certifications but I'm guessing you can put like your education with school so if you have a bachelor's degree master's degree and that's all he has in here so education and work experience so let's click into one of these projects because I am curious to see what these look like okay and okay so I'm guessing this is like where you can like write about it or something oh wait wait looks like it's um populating it okay so I'm I'm I'm understanding it better so I'm guessing he this is a link or this is a an embedding of actual his power bi project so it's like fetching it basically um so we have this and we can size it and it looks like this is this whole project oh this looks really good so this is a good project it looks really neat I'm not verifying any of the visuals or data or anything I'm just visually it looks pretty cool um I don't know what any of this means I mean I know who messy is but I don't know what any of this data means but it looks really good so this looks like if you embed a power bi link like you have a power bi subscription and you embed the link you can do this and so uh yeah that he kind of walks through and then he has more projects so okay right off the bat here's my initial thoughts one I like that on this main page he has multiple projects I always think people should have multiple projects I like that has this kind of a bout section one thing right off the bat that it just is not ideal it's not perfect is that it's on maybe analytics is website it's not like your own website that's the only downside I've seen so far because when somebody clicks on your link you'll take them to this page which is not bad at all it's just you know it has extra stuff up here at the top which you know it'd be better if it was just like this that's my feedback but so far the actual stuff in here is good and even has a link to his LinkedIn which I like and I like the projects I'll take a look at another one and let's see what this one looks like um so this one doesn't have an embedding it looks like it looks like it's just pictures I believe and so he actually this is kind of like a narrative so this is a really good um a really good thing to see because it looks like the last one was an embedding he actually put power bi in there he had a link and for this one it's just pictures and a narrative which I really like when people do this when they have like a narrative because I can read through it I can see their pictures I'm guessing these are pictures uh maybe I'm not sure um and then you can kind of read through it and see it so I like this I really like how it's set up already um and additional images this is cool no this is great I really really like this I think this is fantastic I think is a good way to showcase your projects and that's the whole purpose of this the whole purpose is to be able to showcase you know your projects and your skills to a potential employer so on that front it's already completely succeeding I think it's really good um and if this were my profile I would definitely share this this would be something that I would be proud of and I would share so overall as a quick review I think this is very good now the review is not going to end there I also want to see how you can build it to see if the interface for actually creating your portfolio is any good that does make a difference so I'm going to come right over here I was able to find this this is my profile right here it's very empty but we're going to fill it up really quickly now there are two things I can do here I there's multiple things but I can either add a new project or I can edit my profile so if I click on edit profile it's going to take me right over here and I can add and change a lot of different information one thing I really wanted to show you is this preference is right down here this is really important under this preferences section you can actually specify your work availability so you can say you're available for a full-time role I could click that I could also say I'm available for a part-time role in freelance opportunities so something that Maven Analytics you know announced when they did this is that you can share your profile or they can share your profile for you to help you find jobs and so potential employers can come onto their website and I believe they already have a pretty big network of companies that use them for training and stuff like that so this could be a really nice free way to get and kind of like apply for jobs and get your name out there so it's just something to note and also you can kind of specify which things you want on there so he just had um what was the name we hon or why hon he he had his social links he has work experience and education but he didn't have any additional links so that could be things like your github profile or your uh tableau profile or things like that that you want to share also so you can add additional links so really really cool I'm not looking for any full-time roles at that moment um so I'm not going to work on that but you can add a profile photo which he did you can add your occupation company a little bit about you so people can really find a lot of information about you and you can even like change your background I want to change mine because mine did not mine was just this green one I didn't like that one um and here's LinkedIn twitter github and youtube channel so they're basically giving you a lot of opportunities to have different links there have different you know social medias and github I mean they make it pretty easy and that's not easy to do I've created a lot of portfolio websites or you know my personal ones and it's not easy to get all this stuff on there so the fact that it's all kind of there for you is pretty cool we have our work experience education and then here are our links so um I think everything I'm seeing so far looks really simple looks very easy I think what I want to do next is actually add some information see how it populates it on my profile right here and then see if it looks good see if I can make it look good pretty quickly of course this doesn't take like five minutes this will take like 30 minutes an hour to kind of get everything together make it all look nice but then at the end of it you could have a really nice you know portfolio to share with your employers who put on your resume so it seems like it definitely could be worth it so the first thing that I want to do is add some basic information let's do occupation is all just say data analyst say alex analytics LLC biography I love data I love teaching and I love YouTube I'll just keep it like that let's save it let's go back I just want to see how this updates because I'm I haven't done this at all yet this is on the fly I haven't even tried it yet um okay so we have um data analyst alex analytics lc I love data and I love I love teaching and I love YouTube perfect so it's updating well no glitches oh and there's my background which looks fantastic I love the pre-selected ones I mean you can add your own one you can go to like conva and va and create your own with like your information in it or something like your email your phone number whatever you want to add I wouldn't add too much personal information so that's perfect uh let's look at the banner I already did that one I'm not gonna add well I could let me add um so this is the github I'll show you this later because I want to see if I can link add those but here's my github and let's save this and let's see if it updated give it a second and there it is perfect and you can add LinkedIn I have my LinkedIn I have my YouTube so I can put it all on there which is really great my work experience let's try adding a work experience let's do uh analytics manager ab the company I used to work at the merisores bergen I think I started in like um to use this this feature I think it was the end of 2022 oops uh which was like I think it was like October and then I stopped working there like right around uh I think it was like the 16th let's add the work experience okay let's see if this updated I'm just trying to make sure everything works all right this is a review but it's also um if they're watching this if uh you know they want to see this we want us to make sure it works so there you go so it works properly and so far everything's good I mean um you know it's simple it's you're not adding like a bunch of skills and what you actually did the job it's just kind of high level um but overall it works well education I'm guessing is the exact same and then we have links so you can add different links let me try to add this one I want to see what it looks like we're gonna add this URL this is my um Alex Daniels so these are some projects that we've done in Tableau in the past I'm just gonna add this link and let's go see how this looks and give it a second it has to update now I will go back I'm gonna get rid of this education section and there you go additional links so this is where you could add if you have your resume on a different website or something you could add that as well but I'm gonna go back to these preferences I'm gonna get rid of the education because I'm not gonna use it I don't want to put my education in there um my education isn't that great anyways if I'm being completely honest so I'm going to get rid of it and just see what it looks like we'll see if it's any uh makes it look any better uh and I'll get rid of skills but let me see wait let me see this top skills because I don't remember this um okay final skills okay so this is specific to Maven Analytics you can't just go and put skills SQL Python Tableau you can't just go and put those in there it's if you've taken the final assessments to show your skills so you have to actually go and take Maven Analytics courses on their website to use this I would like it if you could just type it in I think that'd be better um but I get it you know they're a they're a company they have to um you know they're giving this a free product so you know they're just allowing you to use this for free so you know they kind of have to add their own thing in there but um this is a review that is something that I would make it to where you can manually input that as well that's something I would do um so yeah so that's building it out but let's actually try to add a project because I don't have any projects yet let's get rid of this I'm not going to change anything I don't think um but I could add a profile picture and stuff like that but I just want to add a project so let's see what adding a project looks like and then we'll go from there so let's do um I'm going to try to add like this Airbnb project let's try to add that so I'm going to say um air bnb project um add an image uh you don't want to add well what I could do is just take a picture of this but I'm going to see if I can not add an image and just see if that works um this is a Tableau project of air bnb listings and I'm just going to copy this so let's save that perfect okay so you don't have to have everything they're not required that's good to know and this was uh Tableau so you can choose which tools you can even say other that doesn't prompt anything but you can choose your tools um yes I need to save all right let's go to additional images um I'm not going to do this one I'm going to save that one for the next one um for the media we okay so this is the embeddings we were talking about how uh Wehawn or Wehawn he had embedded his Power BI I'm going to try to embed the Tableau so let's go right here I'm going to click on this and I'm going to copy it and I'm going to put um wait set enter Vimeo URL this is the Tableau public URL so don't put the Vimeo URL there I think that's just something that you need to update on the back end but media name I'll just say Tableau uh or Tableau project so now let's save this and let's view the project just as is um this should be like when we clicked into his project okay so it just gives us his default picture right here which is the Maven Analytics logo and then we have our Tableau project and it looks like it refused to connect let's try refreshing this and maybe that's the problem let's try refreshing it let's see if it doesn't refuse to connect uh Tableau public refused to connect okay so it didn't work uh for this project let's try our other project and maybe that's um and maybe it's looking for a Vimeo link and that's why it's not working now let's refresh this okay so it looks like it's not connecting right away uh which you know we do want it to connect well the Tableau one uh is not working for me but I'm just going to delete this project and try another one uh but try the Tableau try the Power BI see if they work for you but now I'm going to do a different one I'm going to do a Power BI project now this is the exact one that we did um for a for our Power BI series and it's right here so I'm going to add this data professional survey breakdown and I'm going to add it except I don't I'm not paying for it so I'm just going to do pictures I'm going to see how that works so instead of embedding it like we just try with Tableau I'm just going to put pictures in and we'll see if that works so I'll say this is a project in Power BI now this is where when he wrote when he did his uh road to Tokyo this section down here all about this project he included all of this so it looks like you can include a lot of information in here um but I'm just going to say this is a Power BI project uh and we will save it and let's add additional images so now let's take this and take this let's open it let's save it we're not going to embed anything but we are going to say Power BI we'll save changes and let's view this project now let's see if these images worked properly because again we're using images perfectly fine I've done it several times and so about this project we have our images um and this is a project that we did in the past and I just included like some of the data it would be more in depth than this uh but you know you can include really whatever you want so we can say this is uh our project in Power BI and we can add all the information kind of walking through what these are um and then the about section add a lot more information so now let's go back to our profile and it says we haven't added any let's go to um let's go right here so okay so this is in a draft status what we need to do is um let me see copyright view project page edit page let's do edit and how do I publish this maybe I have to upload something like this let's do the image the product image and let's do Power BI dashboard let's save it ah we figured it out okay so you have to have all these things I didn't know that um it says required for the project title but doesn't say required for any of these other things but once I put this image in I now can publish it all right I figured it out um okay let's publish it let's go to our profile and let's see if this works let's see if it's on there and there it is perfect uh and even has this little uh you know you can click on it I mean it took a little bit for me to understand uh but I did get it to work the only thing that confused me was it says required here it doesn't say required here feature it's a great way to draw your attention ideal formatting click here um yeah it doesn't say it's required but apparently that is absolutely 100 percent required um but I mean in just a little bit I've created a very basic pretty simple portfolio but I could add a lot more information to this make it look a lot better I should get rid of these things top skills and um let me do that I said I wasn't gonna do it but now I want to make it look good let's go to preferences I'm gonna get rid of final assessments these let's save it let's go back here click refresh so this looks I mean honestly genuinely I have a little trouble with the tableau I want you to try it see if it works for you but the pictures and everything it works it looks good you're just gonna have to add a lot more information than I did I was just doing this to demonstrate it um but even says you know this so you can share your individual projects as well as sharing your entire portfolio so which is really great I mean honestly for a completely free product it's pretty good and it looks good and it's pretty professional now you just kind of have to customize it make sure it is what you want um but overall I think it's really good all right so one of my key takeaways from reviewing this maven analytics portfolio I really like it overall I give it like an eight out of ten I really like that it's free super important you can add as many projects as you'd like you can embed stuff although it didn't work perfectly for us but it genuinely could just be me or it's something they need to update but when you create yours you can just try it but I'd like that you can add pictures you can specify what skills you used on those projects so this it really has a lot going for it really the only downside of using this is that it's hosted on maven analytics platform so if you don't take their courses then you don't get like the badges and the skills and stuff I hope maybe they'll change that to just be able to write in your skills which I think would be nice um but the only other thing was that the tableau link didn't work uh and you know you want your links to work but again that could just be me I'm not a hundred percent sure so that is my review of the maven analytics portfolio if you want to do one yourself and create your own portfolio for free I'll have a link in the description thank you guys for watching if you like the video be sure to like and subscribe below and I'll see you in the next one