Amy Tran
Amy hails from Vietnam and completed a bachelor’s degree in Economics at the Australian National University. While working a marketing role in Japan, she became interested in data analysis and began self-learning Tableau. She applied to join The Data School to gain knowledge and experience working with data in order to pursue a career in data analytics. In her own time, Amy is an avid blogger and also enjoys working on craft projects.
Reflective Blog: Before & After Training At the Data School
Our 4-month training at the Data School has come to an end. It's the perfect time to recap what we've learned so far and what we've accomplished through the training. When I reflected back on my struggles early this year trying to learn Tableau myself, I am really...
Behind the scene: “Mix your cocktail” viz (Tableau v8.3)
The challenge for dashboard week day 4 is using a very old version of Tableau from 2015, tableau v8.3. We also had to use the cocktail dataset from the cocktail database. The dataset itself was simple enough (but this often means not many insights). The real challenge...
Behind the scene: “The life of urban vs rural dwellers” Viz
I'm back for another blog on dashboard week day 3. I've been pumping out blogs and vizzes like a factory these days. It's hard to keep up the quality. Anyway, here is the journey. The challenge overview For dashboard week day 3, our mission is to connect to ArcGIS and...
Behind the scene: “Winning traits/strategies – Male vs Female UFC Fighters” Viz
Our mission for day 2 of Dashboard Week is to create the application viz for the next cohort DSAU7 in one day (applicants have 2 weeks). The dataset is on UFC. I found it particularly challenging to do in one day because I didn't know anything about UFC and the...
Behind the scene: “Meet the Southern Resident Killer Whales” Tableau Viz
Today is day 1 of the dashboard week. Our mission is to choose an API, query from it, create a dashboard, and write a blog all in one day. The topic that I decided to choose is Whale Sighting, from the Whale Museum’s API in the US. This post will outline the process...
Column-Level Security in Tableau using User Functions
This post is a continuation from my previous post on Row-level Security (RLS). Despite the abundant amount of blogs and articles on RLS, Column-Level Security seems to be less popular and rarely mentioned. In this article, I will provide step-by-step instruction on...
Row-Level Security in Tableau using User Functions
Have you ever wondering what are those functions under the USER section in Tableau's calculated field? User Functions can be used to create user filters or row/column-level security that affect visualizations published to Tableau Server or Tableau Online, so that only...
5 Creative Use Cases of Tableau Set Actions
If you've been reading blogs & watching videos about Tableau, you've probably heard someone mentioning Set Actions. A quick google search would show hundreds of tutorials teaching how to do Set Actions. The problem is that there are not many blogs sharing examples...
How to create a density (heat) map – Alteryx vs Tableau
Difficulty Level: Beginner (Alteryx/Tableau) In this week at the Data School's training program, we learned spatial analysis and how to obtain data via API & web scraping using Alteryx. I would like to share what I learned, especially connecting to an API and...
6 Simple Ways to Enhance your Tableau Map
Difficulty Level: Upper Beginner - Intermediate One of the problems I encountered when I first learned Tableau was that map took up a lot of space, yet I wasn’t good enough to get much information out of it. At the time, putting a map on a dashboard was a risky...