by Alice Rooney | Mar 29, 2019 | Alice Rooney, The Data School, Uncategorized
The past 4 months have flown by and it is crazy to think about everything that The Data School has taught me. There was definitely some challenges along the way, with back to back clients and dashboard week. But 100% worth it! New Skills Having used Alteryx...
by Alice Rooney | Mar 18, 2019 | Alice Rooney, The Data School
Finally, we have made it to the last day of dashboard week. For day 5, we were given the choice between two data sets. One was from the Australian Bureau of Statistics on the Car Registrations from 2013-2018 and the second was influenza dataset. I chose to go with the...
by Alice Rooney | Mar 15, 2019 | Alice Rooney, The Data School
Day 4 of Dashboard week involved using API’s and a website called Eventful. The Task was to get information from the website and create a dashboard. Reading through the websites documentation on how to use their api key, it seemed a little confusing at first. It...
by Alice Rooney | Mar 14, 2019 | Alice Rooney, The Data School
Day three of dashboard week involved a global terrorist data set. With 135 fields and a 65-page definition page, it was clear that there was a lot we could do with the data. After reading over the documentation and seeing a lot of fields about hostages/kidnappings...
by Alice Rooney | Mar 13, 2019 | Alice Rooney, The Data School
Psd hit when Craig told us that for day 2 we would be working on baseball data. Memories of struggling with my illiteracy of any sports term for the final interview data on AFL flooded my mind. The first step was to decide which data set to work with. The second one...
by Alice Rooney | Mar 12, 2019 | Alice Rooney, The Data School
Day one of dashboard week Kicking of dashboard week we were given storytelling with data challenge dataset on the who and where of aid donations from 1973 -2013. The dataset was fitting as we had the honour of having Cole Knaflic come and talk to us during the day and...