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Three steps to build a Tableau viz based on a template

Three steps to build a Tableau viz based on a template

by Binbin Chen | Sep 21, 2021 | Binbin Chen

Have you ever wanted to build a fancy chart in Tableau but don’t know how to start? In this case, using a template is a good starting point. Here, I want to share three simple steps to build your chart based on a template. Structure your data in the same format that...
Dashboard Week – Day 5: How did BASIX certified single dwellings use rainwater?

Dashboard Week – Day 5: How did BASIX certified single dwellings use rainwater?

by Binbin Chen | Sep 3, 2021 | Binbin Chen, The Data School

Finally, the last challenge of Dashboard Week!! Today we have less time to complete the dashboard and blog because we need to present at 3 pm. We were given the BASIX certificate data for single dwellings from 2011-12 to 2018-19. Data wrangling: The data is very...
Dashboard Week – Day 4: Web scraping and Tableau server

Dashboard Week – Day 4: Web scraping and Tableau server

by Binbin Chen | Sep 3, 2021 | Binbin Chen, The Data School

Web scraping! This is the challenge we were given on day 4 of the dashboard week. The website we need to scraping is the CWUR world university rankings page. Our target is the table in the webpage, and we need to use the table to build a dashboard purely on the...
Dashboard Week – Day 3: Cryptocurrency volatility

Dashboard Week – Day 3: Cryptocurrency volatility

by Binbin Chen | Sep 2, 2021 | Binbin Chen, The Data School

Today is day 3 of the dashboard week. We are halfway through!! The challenge assigned to us this morning was the API challenge. We need to download the cryptocurrency data from the Coinpaprika API and, as always, build a tableau dashboard. The dashboard I built Today...
Dashboard Week – Day 2: World Bank Projects and GDP

Dashboard Week – Day 2: World Bank Projects and GDP

by Binbin Chen | Sep 1, 2021 | Binbin Chen, The Data School

On day 2 of the dashboard week, we were given World Bank FMIS Projects data to build a dashboard. The data is well-formatted in excel for humans to consume, but it’s a nightmare to be used in tableau and Alteryx. I would love to sit down and find a technical...
Dashboard Week – Day 1: If it wasn’t for COVID, was it a good decision to open a pub in Melbourne in 2019?

Dashboard Week – Day 1: If it wasn’t for COVID, was it a good decision to open a pub in Melbourne in 2019?

by Binbin Chen | Aug 30, 2021 | Binbin Chen, The Data School

This week we welcome our early dashboard week due to the change of schedule. On the first day, we are asked to choose a topic and build a dashboard based on the Melbourne city Census of Land Use and Employment (CLUE) data. Seeing that the latest data is taken from...
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