by The Data School | May 15, 2020 | Parul Kapoor
Parsing of PDFs is never an easy job. While working on my last placement with the client, I got an interesting task to convert PDF forms filled by subcontractors into the database. Adding to the challenge some of the PDF forms were poorly scanned, handwritten or...
by The Data School | Jul 25, 2019 | Parul Kapoor
Sixteen weeks of training joyride in Data School is going to be over soon. It feels like it’s just started, and we are still giving introductions to each other. It was indeed an intensive training and was full of learning, fun and excitement. There was unparalleled...
by The Data School | Jul 22, 2019 | Parul Kapoor
What is SQL? SQL (pronounced “ess-que-el”) stands for Structured Query Language. SQL is used to communicate with a database. SQL became a standard of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in 1986, and of the International Organization for...
by The Data School | Jul 14, 2019 | Parul Kapoor
During day 4 of Dashboard Week, we were assigned an interesting task to select data of our choice from https://www.gapminder.org/data/ and present it in Tableau. We were also not allowed to use Alteryx to prepare the data. After doing some research on the website, I...
by The Data School | Jul 10, 2019 | Parul Kapoor
In Day 2 of Dashboard Week, we were given the challenge to Design some powerful and convincing dashboards illustrating the impact of plastic on our oceans using Power BI. We were given around 10 different CSV files and were open to using additional data. We were also...
by The Data School | Jul 9, 2019 | Parul Kapoor
During Day 1 of Dashboard Week, we were given the task to make the call to Domain.com through an API key and then clean the data in Alteryx and finally present it in Tableau. First, we created an account in Domain.com, registered our project, added the free API and...
