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...
by Ricardo Santos | Jun 23, 2019 | Ricardo Santos
If you’re preparing to take the Tableau Certified Associate Exam, and you’re not sure if you’re ready yet, or if just want some tips on how to best prepare for it, then this post is for you! Of course, this is not the only blog post you’ll read...
by Ricardo Santos | Jun 15, 2019 | Ricardo Santos
Makeover Monday’s week 21 dataset was about bear attacks in the United States and Canada since 1901. Given the type of data, I thought it would be interesting to plot the attack sites on a map, somehow. However, there were no coordinates on the dataset, only...
by Ricardo Santos | May 19, 2019 | Ricardo Santos
In this blog post, I’ll be taking you through the steps that I took to parse data from a series of PDF files containing records from my public transport trips in Sydney. A second post that I will publish next week will be showing a Tableau visualisation of that...
