Teaching Assistant for MGT 6655 – Business Data Preparation and Visualization, working with Prof. Mingfeng Lin. (Starting January 2026)

Responsibilities

• Grade weekly quizzes, visualization exercises, and dashboard projects for graduate students, providing detailed feedback on Tableau workbooks, data preparation workflows, and visualization design choices
• Respond to student inquiries on Ed Discussions platform regarding data preparation techniques (Excel, Tableau Prep), visualization principles, and tool-specific implementations (Tableau Desktop, PowerBI, R)
• Assist students in mastering data cleaning, transformation, and visualization for both exploratory analysis and presentation purposes, including dashboard creation and network visualization
• Support course management for an online asynchronous format, helping students navigate Tableau activation, software troubleshooting, and assignment submission requirements

Course Information

MGT 6655 teaches graduate students principles and tools of data visualization for two purposes: (1) exploration—creating dashboards to understand data and form opinions; and (2) explanation—using visualizations to convince stakeholders. Tools covered include Excel, Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep Builder, Microsoft PowerBI, NodeXL, and R. Topics include visualization principles, chart type selection, data preparation and cleaning, dashboard design, and visualization critique.

Instructor

Prof. Mingfeng Lin, Georgia Institute of Technology