by Kyle Stanford | Mar 17, 2025 | Kyle Stanford
Let’s start with an obvious statement – changing careers can be challenging. Of course, people have different circumstances, but for many, the jump to a new field is difficult. The learning curve may feel more like a series of walls to be scaled, and the...
by Kyle Stanford | Mar 15, 2025 | Kyle Stanford
Creating dynamic titles for charts in Power BI adds polish to any report. Whilst some situations call only for a simple change, scenarios involving multiple parameters or filters require a flexible approach. For example, a chart looking at “Profit by Category...
by Kyle Stanford | Mar 12, 2025 | Alteryx, Kyle Stanford
Dropdowns are an effective way to give users options whilst conserving space. They are a convenient and user-friendly filter, but considerations should be made when configuring dropdowns in Alteryx apps. In this guide, I’ll demonstrate and explain best practices for...
by Kyle Stanford | Mar 12, 2025 | Kyle Stanford
Last week at The Data School in Sydney, we learned basic and intermediate SQL querying. Like most skills that we have learned about so far, we approached different facets of SQL in a formulaic way: Explanation of [SQL concept here] Demonstration of [SQL concept here]...
by Kyle Stanford | Mar 12, 2025 | Kyle Stanford, The Data School
Welcome back to my final Dashboard Week blog. Day 5 brought an exciting dataset about Pixar movies! We received 6 Excel files, covering the films themselves, their genre(s), awards won, box office earnings, the crew behind the scenes, and the public’s response....
by Kyle Stanford | Mar 11, 2025 | Kyle Stanford, The Data School
Welcome back to my Dashboard Week at the Data School blog series. For day 4, we were challenged to web scrape this text file housing alcohol consumption statistics across all states in the U.S. The data comes from the latest consumption surveillance report by the...
