The Data School Blog
So You Want to Join Data School?
This article will go over insights to help you prepare for each step of your application. First Viz The application for the Data School is quite unique in that the first step is submitting a visualisation of data created from Tableau. If you have already...
Week 1 at Data School
As this is my first blog, I was thinking what would be the best topic to start off with. I decided to write about "My first week at the Data School!!" Day-1 COVID-19 crisis impacted me before the start of my new journey. Our start date was delayed by 2 months....
3 Cool ‘Culture Shocks’ at the Data School (vs Working in Japan)
Like a lot of other Data Schoolers, I had several years’ experience working elsewhere before joining the program. As a result, I was quite pragmatic about keeping my expectation in check. I know too well that “No job is perfect”. To my surprise, the first week was a...
Colab?
I figured out how to use Google Colab over the weekend and wanted to share what I learned. What is Colab? Colab is essentially Jupyter notepad meets Google Cloud + free GPUs for running ML queries. It also integrates with Google Drive and Github. Why is this great?...
Are you struggling to parse PDF?
Parsing of PDFs is never an easy job. While working on my last placement with the client, I got an interesting task to convert PDF forms filled by subcontractors into the database. Adding to the challenge some of the PDF forms were poorly scanned, handwritten or...
Tableauopoly
Tableauopoly As I write this the world is gripped in the vice of the coronavirus pandemic. Like all people, I am limited by what I can go and do outside, so we look for what can be done inside. In my house we have the Sydney version of monopoly, this gave me an idea...
How to Disable Highlighting in Tableau
Have you ever wanted to get rid of that pesky 'greying out' effect Tableau does when you click on something? Maybe you have a sexy parameter action? Or perhaps you aren't vibing with the washed-out colours. Well, whatever the case, here's a quick guide to removing the...
Improve Tableau Performance By Data Optimization
Improve your Tableau dashboard’s performance through these data source optimization best practices.
Regex for Data Parsing
I’ve been learning Regex Tool for the previous two days. It is not an easy tool, but once you know how to use it, it can save you much energy in data preparation. Here’s how I learn Regex. Watch all interactive video in Alteryx. (It is very helpful to understand the...
Applying Computer Algorithms in Alteryx – Sudoku Solver
In this blog I will go over Alteryx Weekly Challenge 200, solve a sudoku puzzle from the Wikipedia article. That I also expanded to solving a 1000 different sudoku grids using a Kaggle data set. This type of problem is not one that would typically be solved using...
Reflective Blog in The Data School Down Under
Can’t believe it’s the last day of our four-month training. I can still remember how excited I was when I applied and got accepted for The Data School. The application period was very anxious and nervous but I got a sense of fulfillment during the interviews were...
The Data School Experience – Reflective Blog
Four months of training has come to an end and I am both proud and sad to be at the finish line. It’s been an incredible, but intense journey with lots of learning, many projects and presentations, but most of all a lot of fun. When I started at The Data School almost...