Alekh Srivastava
While doing Commerce (Business Analytics) at the University of Sydney, Alekh discovered his interest in all things related to data. It was from there that he stumbled upon the Data School Down Under and decided to invest in dozens of hours of Tableau for his application. While working on it, he became more confident with the software and knew the addition of data analysis with visual analytics was the path he wanted to go down. In his spare time, he enjoys listening to music, watching MMA and reading all types of news.
Reflective Blog
Final week of Data School. I will miss the atmosphere of being in the office - the mix of hard work and banter. At the same time, I am excited to bring in my skills to a client and make a difference to their data visualation analytics. My experience at the data school...
Dashboard Week – Day 5 – Vehicle Registration Data
Final day of dashboard week! For those who haven't read my blog on yesterday's dashboard, I spent half of today working on Thursday's dashboard. So I worked very quickly to get this out of the way so I could focus on Thursday's. We were given ABS data on vehicle...
Dashboard Week – Day 4 – Eventful
Day 4 of dashboard week started and Steve walks in telling us to work on our CV's (I was probably one of two people who hadn't started yet), so I spent basically until 3:30pm working on it. On a sidenote, I'm really happy with how it turned out. However, it meant I...
Dashboard Week – Day 3 – Terrorism Data
Today we were provided with global terrorism data to analyse. This was one of the most feature rich datasets we've received in the Data School. There were several storylines that I could have focused on (terrorist attacks involving trucks, terrorist attacks using...
Dashboard Week – Day 2 – Baseball Data
For the 2nd round of dashboards, the challenge was to use either 2 datasets relating to baseball. The 1st dataset contained information relating to players whilst the 2nd dataset covered information relating to the play. I went for the 2nd dataset as it had very...
Dashboard Week – Day 1 – AidData
We started off our first dashboard of the week with a dataset from a Storytelling With Data Challenge. Cole came earlier in the week and mentioned the challenge that she had started, hence it was only fitting that it be our first challenge of the week. I decided on...
How to create a bikini chart (Population Pyramid) in Tableau
Here are the steps to make a bikini chart (or population pyramid) for Age-Sex population. There is an extra section for adding a mark to compare which gender has the higher number in each age bracket. Steps Place Age in rows and Female on columns. Place Male just...
How Include/Fixed/Exclude Tableau LOD expressions are calculated
Want to know what's going on behind the scenes when using LOD fields? This guide will breakdown the differences between how include, fixed and exclude and how they are calculated Calculated LOD fields: {Include [Player] : AVG([Score])} {Fixed [Player] : AVG([Score])}...
The BEST Looking Navigation Buttons on Tableau 2018.3
Want to make your viz more compact and have little to no scrolling? Need to spice it up? This bar gives a sleek, professional look to the dashboard and is an easy way of navigating through your viz! Don’t make the user scroll endlessly just to read your insights....
Best way of consolidating your Alteryx knowledge? Weekly Challenges!
Should I use the formula tool? Or was it the multi-row formula? No wait, what about the Multi-Field formula tool? It might be confusing at first when being introduced to dozens of tools and trying to ascertain the right tool to use for the problem at hand. Even if you...