by Grace Murphy | Aug 10, 2019 | Grace Murphy
The last four months whizzed by faster than you can say “level of detail”. Never in my adult life have I learned more than in my time at The Data School. Perhaps better than the content, however, was the chance to spend every day with 7 brilliant analysts. Alex,...
by Grace Murphy | Aug 5, 2019 | Grace Murphy
The precursor to this blog introduced time series forecasting in Alteryx with the ARIMA and ETS tools. This blog looks at configuring these tools to generate an effective time series forecast. The data set I’ve used contains monthly beer production in Australia from...
by Grace Murphy | Jul 22, 2019 | Grace Murphy
If you’re not a statistician, Alteryx’s time series palette is incredibly useful for producing fast forecasting without too much time spent on Stack Exchange. This blog examines four tools in the palette; ETS, ARIMA, TS compare and TS Forecast. Part 1 will cover the...
by Grace Murphy | Jul 13, 2019 | Grace Murphy
Yesterday morning marked a sad end to the whirlwind thrill ride that is dashboard week. The day 5 data set was sourced from the Committee to Protect Journalists and contained information on world-wide journalist deaths since 1992. Each row of the data was a...
by Grace Murphy | Jul 11, 2019 | Grace Murphy
Day 4 of dashboard week started once again with a presentation of the previous day’s work and a reveal of today’s dataset. I’ve come to enjoy these briefings; you can forget about the stress of yesterday and start fresh with new ideas. New dataset, new me. I was...
by Grace Murphy | Jul 11, 2019 | Grace Murphy
Day 3 of dashboard week brought with it the return of Tableau. The dip into power BI yesterday was exciting but it was good to get back into familiar territory. It was only fitting that the subject matter of the dataset we received was far from familiar: Cricket....