Andrew Banh
Andrew graduated from the University of Sydney with a double degree in Commerce and Science. His love of data drew him to The Data School where he can apply his diverse skillset to make business decisions which are driven by data. Joining DSAU2 seemed like the logical step for Andrew. While he isn’t developing attractive Tableau viz’s, he juggles bouldering, cooking and taking weekend trips down to Perisher when it gets colder.
Reflective Blog (Part 2) – What I learnt along the way
Week 16 is here! We are at the end! We have definitely been reminded by the people powering us, MIP, that we have reached a milestone, and collectively, I can say Cohort 2 definitely feels this way. We are proud to have made it through all the back to back client...
Reflective Blog (Part 1) – Summary of The Data School experience
What a whirl the last 16 weeks have been! I can’t believe that I am already at the end of the road (training wise) and placements are starting in less than a week. What a ride it has been so far.
Alteryx Efficiency Hacks
Having used Alteryx for 4 months now, I thought I would share some quality of life hacks for Alteryx. I have worked with datasets which range from just 20 records to those heftier ones at 10 million records. Tips for larger workflows I realised last week when I had to...
Alteryx Inspire APAC – Let me Alteryx that for you
Today we had the pleasure of attending the Alteryx Inspire APAC conference. We started our day nice and early at 8am for breakfast and to hear the keynote speaker, Alteryx CEO Dean Stoecker, speak about Alteryx itself. There were quite a few sessions during the day...
Dashboard Week: Keeping our Truckies safe
Last dashboard of dashboard week! Today we are looking at Motor Vehicle Census data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. When I think of ABS data, vehicle census data has never crossed my mind but I am glad that we are exposed to this today. Firstly, with the...
Dashboard Week: Feeling swanky with my sankey
Today was the first day of Dashboard week. We had the pleasure of undertaking Cole’s Storytelling With Data challenge on AidData. It is the first time that a dataset was actually provided! How exciting! Cole treated us by dropping in to our headquarters in Pyrmont and...
Dashboard Week: Such an ‘EVENTFUL’ day
2nd last day of dashboard week! Our task was to use Eventful’s API to webscrape events from their website. The brief was quite open ended. Just use the API and make something. So, something I made! The difficulty begins with the data we actually extracted from the...
Dashboard Week: Terrorism – A concept of the Past. Persistent in the Present.
Today we delved in to the Global Terrorism Database. The data set was very rich in terms of the details of each attack down to the predominant weapons used. I did parse it through Alteryx quickly though, because the eventID field had the date embedded in it. Also, the...
A (Tableau) date with yours truly
Disclaimer: This is going to be one of those dates where the other person just constantly talks about work, because I will be going through some date formulas and how to create parameters to filter out different date views. The formulas we will be using include...
Facts and Dimensions: Star (schema) Crossed Lovers
Facts and dimensions tables form the basis of any business’ data strategy. It is from the data contained in these tables which data driven business decisions are made.