Alice Rooney
Alice Rooney graduated from La Trobe University with a Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in statistics. Her passion for working with and understanding data led her to The Data School Down under. In her spare time she enjoying baking sweets, traveling and reading mystery murder novels.
Final Day of Dashboard week- ABS Car Registrations
Finally, we have made it to the last day of dashboard week. For day 5, we were given the choice between two data sets. One was from the Australian Bureau of Statistics on the Car Registrations from 2013-2018 and the second was influenza dataset. I chose to go with the...
Day 4 – Food & Wine Events
Day 4 of Dashboard week involved using API's and a website called Eventful. The Task was to get information from the website and create a dashboard. Reading through the websites documentation on how to use their api key, it seemed a little confusing at first. It...
Day 3 – Global Terrorist Events Involving Hostages
Day three of dashboard week involved a global terrorist data set. With 135 fields and a 65 page definition page , it was clear that there was a lot we could do with the data. After reading over the documentation and seeing a lot of fields about hostages/kidnappings...
Dashboard Week Day 2- MLB Baseball
Psd hit when Craig told us that for day 2 we would be working on baseball data. Memories of struggling with my illiteracy of any sports term for the final interview data on AFL flooded my mind. First step was to decide which data set to work with. The second one...
Aid Funding Data
Day one of dashboard week Kicking of dashboard week we were given a story telling with challenge dataset on the who and where of aid donations from 1973 -2013. The dataset was fitting as we had the honour of having Cole Knaflic come and talk to us during the day and...
Basic Steps for Using Tabcmd
The tabadmin command line utility allows a user to automate site administration task on your Tableau Server site, such as creating or deleting users and projects. Tabadmin also allows for backup, upgrade and install of tableau servers. While tabcmd utility is included...
How to prepare for your Alteryx Core Certification
The Alteryx Core certification is a great way to test out your knowledge and skills. While also allowing you to add more certifications to your CV/resume and LinkedIn. You also earn a badge in the Alteryx community, which is a nice little reward to boost your...
Fuzzy Match
The Fuzzy Match tool is a handy tool for matching of non-identical values. There are two different modes that the tool can perform in; Purge, which is used for a single file and compares all records and, Merge, which compares records of different sources. Steps to...
Pareto Charts – 80/20 Rule
A Pareto Chart is a type of chart where individual values are represented by bars (in descending order) and the cumulative percentage of the total is represented by a line. Named after Vilfredo Pareto, who formulated the Pareto Principle (80/20 Rule), which states...
Beginners guide to RegEx
The first time I saw RegEx it looked like a bunch jargon and nonsense. Even after the process was explained to me, I couldn’t understand why anyone would bother to learn a complicated computer language. But after a couple of weeks of learning the tools and tricks of...