The Data School Blog
Dashboard Week, Day 5: Journalists killed (1992-2019)
Friday was the last day of the dashboard week. And our task was to build a dashboard on data from CPJ (Committee to protect journalist) in Tableau 8.3! We downloaded the older version and it felt like we had traveled back in time. The interface looked very different...
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Dashboard Week, Day 4: Cancer-just beat it!
For day 4 of dashboard week, we were asked to choose a data set from Gapminder website to build our dashboard. I have previously never used this website, but it is a great source for data at a country level. I always wanted to build a visualization on a topic related...
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Dashboard week: Day 3 Cricket world cup fever
It was day 3 of dashboard week and even DS Down Under couldn’t escape the Cricket World Cup fever! Yes, our challenge was to design a dashboard on cricket. I have been a massive of fan of cricket (although don't can't find time now to watch the game) and it felt good...
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Dashboard Week – Day 4, Importance of Girl’s Education
During day 4 of Dashboard Week, we were assigned an interesting task to select data of our choice from https://www.gapminder.org/data/ and present it in Tableau. We were also not allowed to use Alteryx to prepare the data. After doing some research on the website, I...
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Dashboard Week Day 5: Journalist Deaths Abroad
Yesterday morning marked a sad end to the whirlwind thrill ride that is dashboard week. The day 5 data set was sourced from the Committee to Protect Journalists and contained information on world-wide journalist deaths since 1992. Each row of the data was a...
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Dashboard Week, Day 4 – Gapminder Data, Visualizing Life Expectancy
Today we focused on using Data-sets available from Gapminder. These Data Sets cover a huge range of global measures, and it was awesome to explore them! I was especially excited to see many data-sets that covered many countries and went back so far in time (some back...
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Dashboard Week: Day 4 | Correlation of Electricity generation per capita with other factors
We are on day 4 of the dashboard week, more than halfway over. Must reiterate that I am loving it. We had to use any dataset from the Gapminder website. This is going it be very different from all our previous dashboard day’s, as Gapminder has data on various metrics...
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Dashboard Week Day 4: Doctors in Europe
Today we have been tasked with visualising socio-economic data from the independent ‘fact tank’ Gapminder. I chose to focus on a dataset showing the number of medical doctors per 1000 population. My partner works in healthcare and we often have animated discussions...
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Portugal’s ageing population
Day 4 of Dashboard Week coincided with the World's Population Day. We were given https://www.gapminder.org/data/ website to use as a data source and build a viz on whatever ticked our interest. While exploring the countless datasets available I thought it would be...
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Dashboard Week Day 4: The World’s Anti-Vax Problem
Day 4 of dashboard week started once again with a presentation of the previous day’s work and a reveal of today’s dataset. I’ve come to enjoy these briefings; you can forget about the stress of yesterday and start fresh with new ideas. New dataset, new me. I was...
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