by Mohammed Hemayed | Sep 17, 2019 | Mohammed Hemayed
A common business problem in analytics today is that we find it easy to settle for descriptive analytics for decision making, which often leads to sub-optimal or undesired outcomes. Not to say that we shouldn’t rely on descriptive analytics in our day to day...
by Mohammed Hemayed | Nov 9, 2018 | Alteryx, Mohammed Hemayed
Day 4 was about using an inaturalist.org observations dataset scraped by their website api. The dataset was huge ( 6 M rows), but was fairly clean. It contained data concerning observations by the users of the app from nature of all sorts of kingdoms and species in...
by Mohammed Hemayed | Nov 9, 2018 | Alteryx, Mohammed Hemayed
Our last challenge of the week was visualizing the Australian public toilets data set. The challenge did not involve much preparation, but I thought that my alteryx skills need some sharpening so I created an Analytic App in Alteryx to customize the public toilet...
by Mohammed Hemayed | Nov 6, 2018 | Mohammed Hemayed, The Data School
Day 2 of Dashboard Week was about using the Transport NSW API to scrape Sydney Trains related data. The API offers a wide variety of data, but I went for Opal Taps. The Data primarily consisted of taps by card type and route taken over the past 3 years. I thought...
by Mohammed Hemayed | Nov 5, 2018 | Alteryx, Mohammed Hemayed, Regex
On Day 1 of the Dashboard week, the challenge was to parse three Melbourne Cup Data Sets and choose one or more to visualize in Tableau. This was an Alteryx intensive task and required mostly the regex tool. Below is a summary of Regex Expressions I found Useful : 1....
by Mohammed Hemayed | Oct 22, 2018 | Applications, Mohammed Hemayed, The Data School
Control Charts are typically used to monitor business processes over time, or variations in products or product categories. A control chart always has a central line for the average, an upper line for the upper control limit and a lower line for the lower control...
