by Stephen Hughes | Nov 22, 2022 | Stephen Hughes
Day 4 of dashboard week working with a new set of data from the oxford university national history museum. This data was very minimal and was a challenge on finding supplementary data to work with what we found. After trying many different API’s and different...
by Stephen Hughes | Nov 7, 2022 | Stephen Hughes
So for dashboard week day 2 we were given a set of data looking into fire incidents around London. Within this dataset you could find things such as the latitude and longitude for the incidents reported, the time it took responders to arrive, the types of incidents...
by Stephen Hughes | Nov 5, 2022 | Stephen Hughes
Today we had to focus on the use of an API to get our data. This was the infamous PunkApi which has a large amount of information on Brew Dog craft beer including colour, bitterness, alcohol percentage and Ingredients. This was to be taken and to be made into a...
by Stephen Hughes | Nov 1, 2022 | Stephen Hughes
So today marks the first day if dashboard week and the first of the of the blog posts with many yet to come. Of course, with the timing of all of this we thought it appropriate to start with some data about The Melbourne Cup to help with tomorrow’s bets. The...
by Stephen Hughes | Oct 3, 2022 | Stephen Hughes
Regex, or regular expression, is a sequence of characters to identify a specific patterns in string values. This is useful for those who have to extract or replace certain data that isn’t easily accessed through traditional data manipulation. Regex allows the...
by Stephen Hughes | Oct 1, 2022 | Stephen Hughes
Measure Branching and Keeping Calculations Clean Within most software that does data visualization there is a feature that allows you to also make calculations to help with said data visuals. Within Tableau these will be the calculated fields, in PowerBi this is known...