by Ben Devries | Mar 5, 2024 | Ben Devries
Dashboard Week is final upon us! After hearing many harrowing stories about Dashboard Week, we were all a little hesitant to see what the week held for us, but also eager and excited to get stuck in to it. Our challenge for day 1 was to connect to the Twitch API...
by Ben Devries | Feb 19, 2024 | Ben Devries
Feel like you’re ready to take the Tableau Certified Data Analyst Exam? Here are some of my top tips that will hopefully help you get Tableau certified! Practice (tests), practice (tests), practice (tests)! Although this one seems quite obvious, I...
by Ben Devries | Feb 18, 2024 | Ben Devries
One of the major pain points most data analysts or business users come across is ‘dirty data’. It is quite rare to come across some data that is perfectly clean, organised, stored and maintained properly, and easily accessible and understandable to be used...
by Ben Devries | Jan 28, 2024 | Ben Devries
In our second week at the Data School Down Under we learnt about LOD’s (level of detail calculations) and table calculations. As part of our weekly presentations, our task was to find a Workout Wednesday challenge on either LOD’s or table Calculations to...
by Ben Devries | Jan 1, 2024 | Ben Devries
When you first start building visualisations in either Power BI or Tableau, it is easy to fall into the trap of creating reports or dashboards with too much jammed into them. Even if there are lots of fantastic insights and useful analysis on the visualisation, most...
by Ben Devries | Dec 15, 2023 | Ben Devries
Today I took on the 25 days of DAX Fridays! Challenge by Curbal! Being relatively new to DAX (we only learnt it yesterday), I was a bit nervous about this challenge. But you know what they say, there is no way better to learn than just jumping straight into the deep...