The Data School Blog
My Top 5 Alteryx Tools
The first two weeks of The Data School training are over and I’ve learnt an incredible amount of new information already. I've particularly enjoyed learning the blend and data prep software called Alteryx. I've been blown away by how powerful this software is and...
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How Data Analytics Played an Instrumental Role in Bill Gates’ Mission to Eradicate Polio
I’ve recently watched the Netflix documentary on Bill Gates titled Inside Bill’s Brain which focuses on the life of Bill Gates and his foundation work. If you haven’t watched it, I’d highly recommend you do. The documentary doesn’t focus on his wealth but rather the...
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The 5 Different Trend Lines Explained
This blog post was inspired by my cohort not really getting how trend lines are calculated when using Tableau. So I thought I'd brush up on my statistics knowledge and write about it. The five different types of trend lines are: 1.Linear 2.Polynomial 3.Exponential...
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Who is Frank Benford and How to Detect Fraud with Tableau
Let's play a game - I predict your home address begins with the number 1, 2 or 3. If we made this a betting game and I had enough readers, I'd be filthy rich. Not because I'm lucky, but because I have a 60.2% of being right. Yes, almost double the more intuitive 33.3%...
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How to Embed Google Street View in Tableau
It is the second week of Cohort 5 training now. I still can’t believe that I’m part of the team already. Back in September this year when I decided to apply for The Data School Down Under, I searched many advanced usages online to make my dashboard standout. Inspired...
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3 things I wish I knew About Alteryx
This first week of The Data School has been very eventful. We were visited by Chris from Tableau on Tuesday and we visited Alteryx Australia head office on Wednesday. We were fortunate to have Jody-John Phillips, the Country Manager (ANZ) at Alteryx, presenting to us,...
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Top 7 Reasons to Begin a Career in Data Analytics
You have stumbled across the Data School Down Under, and one of your very first questions may be why should I train for 4 months, with 24 months of placements? For me, the answer was simple to pour my heart into the unconventional application process when I thought...
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How the Data School Culture Attracts the Best People
The Data School is truly unique. Everything from the hiring process to the mentorship process is completely different from any other organisations out there. There's never a focus on doing things the traditional way, but rather the better way. And that's what makes it...
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Cross Tab and Transpose in Alteryx, with Examples
To try to help my understanding of the difference between the "Cross tab" and "Transpose" tool in Alteryx I wanted to write about it. I believe trying to teach or help others understand what was learnt is the best way to learn yourself. In university, I worked a lot...
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Data School Training: Lessons Along The Way
And so we’ve come to the end of 16 weeks here at the Data School! Even though we’d been warned how quickly time would fly, it’s still surreal to go through it all. Reflecting on how far we’ve come, I decided to revisit some goals I’d set myself in Week 1... 1) Make...
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