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Monday Dashboard Week Challenge

Monday Dashboard Week Challenge

by Nikhara Inderlal | Jul 1, 2025 | Nikhara Inderlal, Uncategorized

For this dashboard week, the first challenge we received was a task to build a comprehensive dashboard which would utilise the Playbill Internet Broadway database – specifically on tableau. It was daunting at first; but – like always – when faced with a...
The Fastest 8 Weeks. The Longest 8 Weeks.

The Fastest 8 Weeks. The Longest 8 Weeks.

by Nikhara Inderlal | Jun 7, 2025 | Nikhara Inderlal

As I now reach the halfway point of my training period, I’ve decided to reflect on this voyage through Data and Analytics that I embarked on. My name is Nikhara, and I am working at The Data School as part of the 28th Cohort in Sydney. I began my journey here in 2025,...
Tableau Parameters Tutorial: Build an Interactive Bar Chart with Dynamic Measures Part 2

Tableau Parameters Tutorial: Build an Interactive Bar Chart with Dynamic Measures Part 2

by Nikhara Inderlal | May 12, 2025 | Nikhara Inderlal

Welcome to Part 2 of my tutorials on Tableau parameters, we will be building on our previous work from Part 1. In Part 2 we will be creating the following parameters:   Parameter 3 – Dynamic Measures – ‘Select a measure’ (string parameter) Parameter 4 – Dynamic...
Tableau Parameters Tutorial: Build an Interactive Bar Chart with Dynamic Measures Part 2

Tableau Parameters Tutorial: Build an Interactive Bar Chart with Dynamic Measures Part 1

by Nikhara Inderlal | May 12, 2025 | Nikhara Inderlal, Uncategorized

Welcome to my tutorials on Tableau parameters. These tutorials will demonstrate step by step how to create 5 unique parameters to produce an interactive bar chart with dynamic measures. This type of visualisation is an exploratory style that allows users to interact...
Visualisation Best Practices for Tableau or Power BI – Part 3

Visualisation Best Practices for Tableau or Power BI – Part 3

by Nikhara Inderlal | Apr 27, 2025 | Nikhara Inderlal, Uncategorized

Welcome to the final part of this series of the ‘Visualisation Best Practices for Tableau or Power BI’ tutorials. If you have been following along my series of blogs, you should be familiar by now with planning to create your first visualisation and the four Ws that...
Visualisation Best Practices for Tableau or Power BI – Part 3

Visualisation Best Practices for Tableau or Power BI – Part 2

by Nikhara Inderlal | Apr 27, 2025 | Nikhara Inderlal, Uncategorized

Welcome to the second part of my series on the ‘Visualisation Best Practices for Tableau or Power BI’. If you haven’t already had a look at Part 1 of this series, click on the link below. Data Visualisation Best Practices - Part 1 Otherwise, we will be...
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