Dashboard Week. Day 2.

Dashboard Week. Day 2.

Battle of the Giants: Does Size Really Matter?   I know absolutely nothing about basketball. All I really know is that basketball players are tall. So, when I got access to the NCAA dataset, that was the first thing that caught my attention. I wanted to answer a...
Dashboard Week. Day 1.

Dashboard Week. Day 1.

Broadway Box Office: A Tale of Two Shows For the first day of Dashboard Week, we were tasked with web-scraping data from the Playbill website and turn it into an insightful Tableau dashboard, with total freedom to choose whatever angle we wanted. I couldn’t resist a...
Audit Logs & Trigger Trauma

Audit Logs & Trigger Trauma

*From the “Data but Make it Personal” series – Part 5 A SQL Project Survival Story When you’re in training, you don’t choose your projects – they choose you. Every week brings a new client, a new challenge, and a new opportunity to grow (or panic). This week, the...
Dashboards and Decision Fatigue

Dashboards and Decision Fatigue

*From the “Data but Make it Personal” series – Part 4 Why Less is More   Starting with Intention One of the most satisfying feelings of the past few weeks has been getting a Tableau dashboard to just work. When the filters respond the way you expect, the layout...
Types of People, Types of Data

Types of People, Types of Data

*From the “Data but Make it Personal” series – Part 3 On understanding structure before trying to make things fit The other day, when I was trying to get some Alteryx practice by doing one of their Weekly Challenges, I was building a pretty straightforward flow. Or at...
Aggregation: Seeing the Big Picture

Aggregation: Seeing the Big Picture

*From the “Data but Make it Personal” series – Part 2 Why zooming out matters in life and in data The past five weeks of training have been packed – and I mean packed – with information. We have explored a whole range of data analysis and visualisation...