by Samuel Goodman | Nov 16, 2023 | Samuel Goodman
Web scraping is an automated method for extracting data from websites. It’s a powerful tool that’s indispensable for data scientists, programmers, and business analysts alike. In essence, web scraping involves a sequence of steps: Identifying the data you...
by Samuel Goodman | Aug 14, 2023 | Samuel Goodman
The final day of Dashboard Week, Day 5, arrived with a whirlwind of activities. With presentations for Day 4’s dashboard in the morning and a new dashboard to be created and presented by 3 pm, time was indeed of the essence. For this day, we were assigned a...
by Samuel Goodman | Aug 14, 2023 | Samuel Goodman
Day 4 of Dashboard Week arrived, bringing a new challenge involving APIs. Initially, we were supposed to extract data on Australian Prime Minister speeches over the past 80 years using an API. However, complications such as anti-botting checks on the website, which...
by Samuel Goodman | Aug 14, 2023 | Samuel Goodman
On the third day of Dashboard Week, we faced an interesting challenge: to develop a dashboard that would track and categorise various movies, TV shows, books, and other media related to Star Trek. Let’s look at the step-by-step process I used to tackle this...
by Samuel Goodman | Aug 14, 2023 | Samuel Goodman
Kicking off Day 2 of Dashboard Week, we were presented with a dataset focusing on GPUs and CPUs. Having some familiarity with computer hardware, I found today’s challenge somewhat less daunting than the previous day’s task. The day began with us presenting...
by Samuel Goodman | Aug 14, 2023 | Samuel Goodman
Rounded bars are a feature that is sorely missed in Tableau. Though there are multiple workarounds to achieve rounded bars, most of these methods render the bar chart hard to read and inaccurate. Today, I’m going to guide you through the process of creating...
