by Daniel Yam | Jul 19, 2024 | Daniel Yam
DAX is HARD Another Friday, another day of infinite struggle. To say DAX is not beginner friendly would perhaps be a huge understatement, and while there was a public holiday between days of training, it was still just as brutal. Fortunately, in the mass of...
by Daniel Yam | Jul 19, 2024 | Daniel Yam
For our final week in training at The Data School, we had the opportunity to create our own datasets to answer a question of our own choosing using Mockaroo. This is a fantastic website that can be really tweaked in any way you want, especially in practicing creating...
by Daniel Yam | Jul 12, 2024 | Daniel Yam
A few weeks have passed since we were given the opportunity to teach a free session open to the public as part of the Learn What the Data School Learns (LWTDSL) initiative. Predictably, our manager assigned us all topics we were unfamiliar or uncomfortable with as a...
by Daniel Yam | Jul 5, 2024 | Daniel Yam
For the final day of Dashboard Week, we were given a light and enjoyable dataset for once, no more depressing data about the state of the world or how crime and inflation are going up. Instead, we were given information on the Harry Potter films. The various sheets...
by Daniel Yam | Jul 4, 2024 | Daniel Yam
Day 4 of Dashboard Week and its back to Power BI, this time however, the data was actually very clean, and didn’t really require any Alteryx work to get into a workable state. The data was also very open-ended, we were given a choice amongst the 17 Sustainable...
by Daniel Yam | Jul 4, 2024 | Daniel Yam
Day 3 of Dashboard Week was back in Tableau, but also an exercise in webscraping some data on the crime index of cities around the world. We were also required to get another source of data to further enrich our existing information to create our dashboard. This was...