by Junya Wang | Mar 27, 2020 | Junya Wang
While the world turned upside-down by the Coronavirus (COVID-19), we ended our 4 months Data School training with a virtual graduation yesterday. Here are some thoughts I would like to share with those we are thinking about joining the data school or about to start...
by Junya Wang | Mar 27, 2020 | Junya Wang
Up till now, we had seven client-weeks and all went successful. Overall, we are a self-functioning team that shares the same goal, that is, to present something insightful and truthful to our clients. This makes it easy to manage a team of 8, however, it is not...
by Junya Wang | Mar 16, 2020 | Junya Wang
Today we have an interesting dataset for Dashboard week. The Kickstarter data from Kaggle. There are two datasets and everyone in the cohort all agreed that one of them is completer and more updated than the other, so we decided to only look at the former dataset. I...
by Junya Wang | Mar 15, 2020 | Junya Wang
The second day into the dashboard, we were given data from MSI(Maritime Safety Information). The data can be downloaded in different formats such as HTML and XML. HTML format comes with spatial columns however harder to parse compare with CSV. Lucky enough, the CSV...
by Junya Wang | Mar 15, 2020 | Junya Wang
Day four into the dashboard week, we were being given data from here. The data was reshaped to some extent, however, the challenge with data this time is to normalise it with the inflation rate. Chris discovered the inflation rate on this website. This is year-on-year...
by Junya Wang | Mar 15, 2020 | Junya Wang
This week has been an intense week of Dashboard and Blogs exercise. To finish this week off, we have data from the CDC(Centres for Disease Control and Prevention). To give you a brief introduction, the dataset includes 2017, 2016 model-based small area estimates for...
