by The Data School | Nov 21, 2019 | Chantel Brooke
It’s the last week of training for us in DSAU4 and its amazing how fast the last 16 weeks have flown by. Its been a fun but challenging experience. It was daunting at first to start in a completely new field after being an engineer for several years. But the...
by The Data School | Nov 8, 2019 | Chantel Brooke
For the fourth day of Dashboard Week we were tasked with visualizing data from the World Bank. The challenge was no Alteryx, any data preparation or manipulation was to be done in Tableau Prep. I was interested in the statistics on gender but wanted to find another...
by The Data School | Nov 6, 2019 | Chantel Brooke
For Dashboard Week day three, we were challenged to create a dashboard in Power BI to visualize data on the Titanic disaster. We were set various challenges to complete including: Merge Joins Edit Queries Create DAX Formulas Use a Custom Visual Have some Interaction...
by The Data School | Nov 6, 2019 | Chantel Brooke
Day two of Dashboard Week was the day of the Melbourne Cup. The Melbourne Cup is a famous annual horse race here in Australia. So for dashboard week we were tasked with web scraping statistics on the horses from various betting websites. Because of how the website was...
by The Data School | Nov 4, 2019 | Chantel Brooke
For day one of Dashboard Week we were tasked with downloading data from one of the APIs from Transport New South Wales at opendata.transport.nsw.gov.au. I decided to download data from the Traffic Volume Counts API. This API had the locations of traffic count stations...
by The Data School | Oct 24, 2019 | Chantel Brooke
In September 2019 Tableau released version 2019.3 where distance calculations were introduced. Adi Mcrea from the Data School UK was visiting us here in Australia and she gave us a great session on Spatial Analytics. One of the things she covered was the new distance...
