by Frank Salmon | Nov 8, 2021 | Frank Salmon
It was Friday and it was the last day of Dashboard week! Today’s Challenge was all about Spatial data from the Census of Land Use and Employment (CLUE) for Melbourne. I was looking forward to brushing up on spatial analysis. This time we only had 6 hours from...
by Frank Salmon | Nov 8, 2021 | Frank Salmon
It was Thursday and I had a decent nights sleep, considering the quality of the other nights that week. Todays challenge was the Tableau web edit challenge. The rules were simple: Build a dashboard using only Tableau server Can’t use Tableau desktop Alteryx permitted...
by Frank Salmon | Nov 4, 2021 | Frank Salmon
Planes dropping out of the sky! Today’s Challenge was to web scrape the database of http://www.planecrashinfo.com/database.htm. This included many pages of fatal crashes across the length of aviation history. This pleasant topic surely won’t induce certain phobias....
by Frank Salmon | Nov 3, 2021 | Frank Salmon
Our second day of dashboard week fell on Melbourne cup day. So what would be more appropriate than a dataset on whisky sales? Today was the API challenge, and so the task was to download the data from the Whisky Hunter API, prepare and then visualise a dashboard. Data...
by Frank Salmon | Nov 3, 2021 | Frank Salmon
Today was the first day of dashboard week. And what better way to start than analysis of Australian charitable organisations. Feel free to check out the data here. The dataset classifies the charities based on what their promoted cause is, and also has info on target...
by Frank Salmon | Oct 17, 2021 | Frank Salmon
While I was preparing for my Tableau Desktop certification exam, I decided to go over a topic that went a bit over my head during training, fixed LODs. LODs (level of detail calculation) are a somewhat advanced topic in Tableau, but they are vital for certain purposes...
