Importing Tables from the Web in PowerBI

Importing Tables from the Web in PowerBI

Over 2 days last week, we were introduced to PowerBI. PowerBI is a business intelligence tool made by Microsoft to prepare, analyse and visualise data. PowerBI shares similar functionality to Tableau and Alteryx. It incorporates features of both into a single product...
Effective Use of Scrum Boards

Effective Use of Scrum Boards

What is a Scrum Board? A scrum board is a project management tool that helps to visualise tasks needed to complete a project. They can be used to help visualise the progress of a project. The scrum board is usually split into three sections: To Do, In Progress and...
Computer Vision in Alteryx vs. Python

Computer Vision in Alteryx vs. Python

What is Computer Vision? Computer Vision is a field of AI (Artificial Intelligence) which trains computers to interpret and understand the visual world using training data in the form of images. In this blog post, I will be training two Convolutional Neural Networks...
Changing Sheets in Tableau Using Parameters

Changing Sheets in Tableau Using Parameters

Tableau provides many ways to use parameters to produce custom types of interaction on a dashboard. Parameters can even be used to hide/show sheets. There may be a variety of reasons you may want to use a parameter to switch between two sheets: There may not be enough...
Client Project Tips

Client Project Tips

It’s the end of our 7th week at The Data School and we have just completed our second client project. I’d like to share some of my experiences and some things I learnt while working on our client projects. In this blog post, I will share 6 tips to help...
Alteryx Designer Core Exam Tips

Alteryx Designer Core Exam Tips

Over the Christmas break, I decided to sit my Alteryx Designer Core exam and I am happy to announce that I passed! In this blog post, I will share some resources and tips I used to help pass the exam. Unlike the Tableau exam, the Alteryx exam is open book. You are...