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Dashboard Week, Day 3 – Power BI
Today is day 3 of Dashboard Week! The challenge for today was to create a visualisation in Power BI. We were given an interesting dataset...
Dashboard Week, Day Three – Visualizing the Titanic Disaster in Power BI
For Dashboard Week day three, we were challenged to create a dashboard in Power BI to visualize data on the Titanic disaster. We were set...
Dashboard Week, Day Two – Melbourne Cup Regex Web-Scraping
Day two of Dashboard Week was the day of the Melbourne Cup. The Melbourne Cup is a famous annual horse race here in Australia. So...
Dashboard Week, Day 2 – Melbourne Cup
Day 2 of Dashboard Week was the Melbourne Cup so it was no surprise that our challenge was Melbourne Cup themed! We were briefed that...
Dashboard Week, Day One – NSW Transport API
For day one of Dashboard Week we were tasked with downloading data from one of the APIs from Transport New South Wales at opendata.transport.nsw.gov.au. I...
Dashboard Week, Day 1 – Transport APIs
Today is our first day of dashboard week. This morning we were briefed by Craig that we needed to use an API from Open Data...
Using the Distance Calculation to Create a Dynamic Buffer Around a Point in Tableau 2019.3
In September 2019 Tableau released version 2019.3 where distance calculations were introduced. Adi Mcrea from the Data School UK was visiting us here in Australia...
Using Parameter Actions for Dynamic Date Ranges in Tableau
For a recent client project I created a KPI dashboard that was able to show varying date ranges such as the last month, the last...
Alteryx Advanced Certification Guide and Resources
The Alteryx Certification Exams are a great challenge when learning how to use Alteryx Designer. Being quite new to Alteryx, I found them helpful to...
Understanding Table Calculations with Specific Dimensions in Tableau
Last week I had a light-bulb moment of finally understanding how table calculations were computing using specific dimensions in Tableau. Previously I would just try...