by Frank Salmon | Nov 4, 2021 | Frank Salmon
Planes dropping out of the sky! Today’s Challenge was to web scrape the database of http://www.planecrashinfo.com/database.htm. This included many pages of fatal crashes across the length of aviation history. This pleasant topic surely won’t induce certain phobias....
by Frank Salmon | Nov 3, 2021 | Frank Salmon
Our second day of dashboard week fell on Melbourne cup day. So what would be more appropriate than a dataset on whisky sales? Today was the API challenge, and so the task was to download the data from the Whisky Hunter API, prepare and then visualise a dashboard. Data...
by Frank Salmon | Nov 3, 2021 | Frank Salmon
Today was the first day of dashboard week. And what better way to start than analysis of Australian charitable organisations. Feel free to check out the data here. The dataset classifies the charities based on what their promoted cause is, and also has info on target...
by Frank Salmon | Oct 17, 2021 | Frank Salmon
While I was preparing for my Tableau Desktop certification exam, I decided to go over a topic that went a bit over my head during training, fixed LODs. LODs (level of detail calculation) are a somewhat advanced topic in Tableau, but they are vital for certain purposes...
by Frank Salmon | Oct 17, 2021 | Frank Salmon
This week was my first introduction to Power BI. It’s quite different to Tableau, with some things coming surprisingly easy like filter actions and other things harder, such as the unfamiliar syntax’s DAX and M. However what I was impressed by was the ease...
by Frank Salmon | Sep 21, 2021 | Frank Salmon, The Data School
In Tableau a parameter is a tool that can be used to add interactivity to a view or dashboard, allowing the audience to explore the data for themselves. They can also be used to help organise a dashboard. Today we’ll be looking at using parameters to switch between...
