by The Data School | Jul 2, 2025 | The Data School
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...
by The Data School | Jul 1, 2025 | The Data School
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...
by The Data School | Jun 13, 2025 | The Data School
*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...
by The Data School | Jun 13, 2025 | The Data School
*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...
by The Data School | May 16, 2025 | The Data School
*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...
by The Data School | Apr 30, 2025 | The Data School
*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...