by Patrick Breis | Sep 25, 2020 | Patrick Breis, The Data School
16 weeks have passed in usual fashion – quickly. However, these past 16 weeks have been unusual, or perhaps better described as unique. That is the best way I can summarise the four month training component of The Data School – unique. My time so far in...
by Patrick Breis | Sep 12, 2020 | Patrick Breis, The Data School
The last four days have been nothing short of a genuine challenge. Today marks the fifth and final day of Dashboard Week and also the shortest day yet, in terms of how long we had to work on our dashboard. Our task today was to create a dashboard using data on the...
by Patrick Breis | Sep 11, 2020 | Patrick Breis, The Data School
Today truly was Throwback Thursday – why you ask? Well it wasn’t the fact that we were using what appeared to be a 90s themed website to obtain Cocktail data through their API; the big reveal was that we would be using Tableau 8.3! So as I brushed over...
by Patrick Breis | Sep 10, 2020 | Patrick Breis, The Data School
Today marked the halfway point for Dashboard Week and at its conclusion it truly does feel like we have got over the hump. Our task for today was to access data by connecting to an ArcGIS data set through Tableau. For those of you unsure of what ArcGIS is; it is a...
by Patrick Breis | Sep 9, 2020 | Patrick Breis, The Data School
As sure as the sun rises in the morning, so does Day 2 of Dashboard Week follow Day 1 – and so I have found myself with another task and only one day to complete it. Today’s task was to use the data set, provided to the soon to be DSAU7 for their Stage 3...
by Patrick Breis | Sep 8, 2020 | Patrick Breis, The Data School
And so as DSAU6 heads into Week 14 of our journey, so too do we enter the dreaded Dashboard Week. During this week we are presented with a different challenge each day that must culminate in a dashboard to be presented the very next morning. I had heard whispers in...
