by Ming-Hsuan Lee | Mar 2, 2022 | Ming-Hsuan Lee
The second challenge of our dashboard week is to use YouTube trending dataset on Kaggle and create a dashboard in Tableau. This sounds more straightforward then yesterday. I thought I might be able to finish earlier today, but I was wrong. I had my biggest challenges...
by Ming-Hsuan Lee | Mar 1, 2022 | Ming-Hsuan Lee
Finally here comes the dreaded (for me) Dashboard Week! During this week we will be tasked to complete one dashboard per day on a given dataset or source. Today our job is to download anime data form Jikan API. It’s an unofficial my anime list API that allows...
by Ming-Hsuan Lee | Feb 26, 2022 | Ming-Hsuan Lee
Scenario We know that in Tableau we can easily drill down and up dimensions in a hierarchy by clicking the plus sign (+) or minus sign (-) on the fields. For example, in Superstore data, we can drill down Category to Sub-Category level. In this case, if you choose to...
by Ming-Hsuan Lee | Feb 19, 2022 | Ming-Hsuan Lee
This week at The Data School we’ve learnt a new data wrangling and visualisation tool – Power BI. When trying to build a dynamic viz, I found the tip to swap metrics very useful. The function is similar to using parameters to swap measures in Tableau. In...
by Ming-Hsuan Lee | Feb 5, 2022 | Ming-Hsuan Lee
In the first part of this blog, I’ve covered the role of a project lead in project preparation before and during the project week. I’ve also talked about external communication with client, and internal communication with the team (daily stand-up and scrum board). In...
by Ming-Hsuan Lee | Feb 4, 2022 | Ming-Hsuan Lee
This week was our third client project week, and it was my turn to be the project lead. Client project weeks are a significant part of our training and all of us must take turn to lead the team. In this blog I’d like to share my experience of being the lead, and some...