by Alex Taylor-Jackson | Mar 10, 2020 | Alex Taylor-Jackson
Introduction For day 2 of dashboard week, our task was to use the data (that can be found here) on the National Geospatial Information Agency (NGIA). However, we had to supplement it with data found elsewhere. Originally I wanted to find shipping routes, poverty data,...
by Alex Taylor-Jackson | Mar 9, 2020 | Alex Taylor-Jackson
Introduction This Week in the Dataschool Down Under, we bean Dashboard week. This involves creating a viz from scratch, using some of the skills we have learnt over our 4 months of training. Plus we only have 1 day to do it! For day 1, we focused on APIs, specifically...
by Alex Taylor-Jackson | Feb 23, 2020 | Alex Taylor-Jackson
INTRODUCTION For this blog, I wanted to focus on a topic that I am perhaps not so confident with: Macros and Analytic Apps. I will give an example of each to further my knowledge and the readers. MACROS The premise behind macros is to save time. By this, I mean that...
by Alex Taylor-Jackson | Feb 22, 2020 | Alex Taylor-Jackson
INTRO In this blog, I will be describing all things to do with Table Calculations. The pretence behind this blog is to help with a teaching session I will give soon about Table Calculations. So, what are Table Calculations? Directly from Tableau help, “Table...
by Alex Taylor-Jackson | Feb 2, 2020 | Alex Taylor-Jackson
Level of Detail (LOD) For this blog post, I thought I would write about the difference between different levels of detail (LOD). I wanted to do it in as few words as possible as a lot of websites give lengthy explanations and I think the end result is confusion and...
by Alex Taylor-Jackson | Feb 1, 2020 | Alex Taylor-Jackson
Introduction to Stats A couple of weeks ago in our training at the Data School, we had some lessons on Predictive analysis. The topic of Standard deviations and normal distributions came up, coming from a statistics background I really enjoyed it. But a lot of the...
