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Tuesday Dashboard Week Challenge

Tuesday Dashboard Week Challenge

by Nikhara Inderlal | Jul 1, 2025 | Nikhara Inderlal, Uncategorized

Today – the second day of dashboard week – we have been tasked to create a Power BI report. The visualisation should be based on the NCAA basketball database that’s from Google Big Query. This time I felt inclined to go on a journey – one which would lead us to...
Monday Dashboard Week Challenge

Monday Dashboard Week Challenge

by Nikhara Inderlal | Jul 1, 2025 | Nikhara Inderlal, Uncategorized

For this dashboard week, the first challenge we received was a task to build a comprehensive dashboard which would utilise the Playbill Internet Broadway database – specifically on tableau. It was daunting at first; but – like always – when faced with a...
Tableau Parameters Tutorial: Build an Interactive Bar Chart with Dynamic Measures Part 1

Tableau Parameters Tutorial: Build an Interactive Bar Chart with Dynamic Measures Part 1

by Nikhara Inderlal | May 12, 2025 | Nikhara Inderlal, Uncategorized

Welcome to my tutorials on Tableau parameters. These tutorials will demonstrate step by step how to create 5 unique parameters to produce an interactive bar chart with dynamic measures. This type of visualisation is an exploratory style that allows users to interact...
Visualisation Best Practices for Tableau or Power BI – Part 3

Visualisation Best Practices for Tableau or Power BI – Part 3

by Nikhara Inderlal | Apr 27, 2025 | Nikhara Inderlal, Uncategorized

Welcome to the final part of this series of the ‘Visualisation Best Practices for Tableau or Power BI’ tutorials. If you have been following along my series of blogs, you should be familiar by now with planning to create your first visualisation and the four Ws that...
Visualisation Best Practices for Tableau or Power BI – Part 3

Visualisation Best Practices for Tableau or Power BI – Part 2

by Nikhara Inderlal | Apr 27, 2025 | Nikhara Inderlal, Uncategorized

Welcome to the second part of my series on the ‘Visualisation Best Practices for Tableau or Power BI’. If you haven’t already had a look at Part 1 of this series, click on the link below. Data Visualisation Best Practices - Part 1 Otherwise, we will be...
Visualisation Best Practices for Tableau or Power BI – Part 3

Visualisation Best Practices for Tableau or Power BI – Part 1

by Nikhara Inderlal | Apr 14, 2025 | Nikhara Inderlal, Uncategorized

Welcome to my first tutorial on the best practices for visualisations. Whether you’re creating your first visualisation (viz) on Tableau or on Power BI, these key tips and lessons are applicable to you. We use visualisations to better understand data by mapping out...
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