by Blake Stroh | Mar 29, 2019 | Blake Stroh
Approaching the final days of our 4 months at the Data School Australia it seems a good time to reflect on my time here. The period has flown by, it feels like only yesterday we were going through introductions at the new office and getting to work in an area that we...
by Blake Stroh | Mar 19, 2019 | Blake Stroh
Day 5 is finally here. After a long exhausting week, we’ve received a smaller dataset on Australian Car Registrations and other related info from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. It was only a half day project so time management was super important again. The...
by Blake Stroh | Mar 15, 2019 | Blake Stroh
For day 4 of Dashboard week, we were given a different task yet again. Today involved sourcing our own data from eventful.com API’s. We had to sign up for an account, choose a topic and then read their documentation to download the Event information that we needed...
by Blake Stroh | Mar 14, 2019 | Blake Stroh
For day 3 we were given a great dataset on Global Terrorism from 1970-2017 (excluding 1993 as the records for that year were lost). It was a great dataset from the outset, came with well labelled columns, clear definitions and really interesting data. I see great...
by Blake Stroh | Mar 13, 2019 | Blake Stroh
For day 2 of Dashboard week we were tasked with a Sportsviz Sunday (from here) It was a very rich dataset, with massive scope for investigation. I decided to focus on Pitches, with the statistics for every pitch over a 10-year period recorded. With almost 1 million...
by Blake Stroh | Mar 12, 2019 | Blake Stroh
Dashboard week involves us creating one dashboard per day for the week on a dataset picked for us. For Day 1 we were given this dataset on Aid Data around the World and tasked with making sense of who sends and receives aid (Click to see the Challenge). We were also...
