by Quoc Thang Nguyen | Sep 23, 2021 | Quoc Thang Nguyen
Introduction I have used Tableau way before joining the Data School Down Under. Since 2018, I have taken interest in creating visually appealing charts. I can go through the r/dataisbeautiful subreddit for hours and hours. I always had a question pop-up in my mind...
by Quoc Thang Nguyen | Sep 18, 2021 | Quoc Thang Nguyen
Introduction I love to write in Markdown for a couple of reasons. First of all, when you write using a markup language it will save you time by getting rid of the process of manually going through the toolbar to visually format the look of your article. Secondly,...
by Quoc Thang Nguyen | Sep 3, 2021 | Quoc Thang Nguyen, Uncategorized
Day 5 topic, ‘Basix Certificate in NSW’: This challenge is very hard, not because the data need a lot of wrangling, but because we only have a limited time to build this, unlike other challenges we have a whole day to work on. Data wrangling The data is...
by Quoc Thang Nguyen | Sep 2, 2021 | Quoc Thang Nguyen, Uncategorized
Day 4 topic, ‘University Ranking – Web Scrapping’: This challenge is very, well, challenging. Because it has involved using web-scrapping and using regex to parse the context into readable format. One of the hard parts is to isolate the context from...
by Quoc Thang Nguyen | Sep 1, 2021 | Quoc Thang Nguyen, Uncategorized
Day 3 topic, ‘CoinPaprika API’: So today challenge is quite different from others. It is mainly because we have to retrieve all the data from a public API. Alteryx makes it a breeze to download parse in JSON format. So the challenging part is how to get...
by Quoc Thang Nguyen | Aug 31, 2021 | Quoc Thang Nguyen, Uncategorized
Day 2 topic, ‘World Bank FMIS Projects Database’: So this dataset is used to keep track of all the projects funded by the World Bank. This dataset is in an excel file. The layout is nicely formatted for human consumption with a few tables within a sheet,...
