by Ricardo Santos | Aug 13, 2019 | Ricardo Santos
In the application process, we’re promised 16 weeks of intense training in all things data, focussing on Tableau and Alteryx. Well, it certainly is true. Even though 16 weeks doesn’t seem like a long time (it really isn’t!), the amount of knowledge...
by Ricardo Santos | Jul 23, 2019 | Ricardo Santos
image credits: John Kars photography | Grad Australia Thoughts and fears going into Project Week One of the most exciting aspects of our training at The Data School, besides the obvious analytics, is that each of us gets to be project lead for a week. However,...
by Ricardo Santos | Jul 23, 2019 | Ricardo Santos
Dashboard Week’s day 5 was all about a dataset on journalists deaths. Craig also gave us an extra task, which was to use version 8.3 of Tableau to build our dashboards. For someone like me, who started using Tableau in late January 2019 (version 2019.1), Tableau...
by Ricardo Santos | Jul 12, 2019 | Ricardo Santos
Day 4 of Dashboard Week coincided with the World’s Population Day. We were given https://www.gapminder.org/data/ website to use as a data source and build a viz on whatever ticked our interest. While exploring the countless datasets available I thought it would...
by Ricardo Santos | Jul 11, 2019 | Ricardo Santos
After a day out on shadowing one of MIP’s consultants work for a client, I’m back to The Data School for Dashboard Week’s day 3. Today we had a go at a dataset on the 2019 Cricket’s World Cup which is just days away from the final. This is...
by Ricardo Santos | Jul 10, 2019 | Ricardo Santos
Yesterday was the first day of dashboard week. We were tasked with getting data from domain.com’s public API. The first task was to understand how the API worked and get it running on Alteryx, so we could then build our vizes in Tableau. As it turns out, there’s good...
