Andrew Ho
Andrew joins The Data School Down Under with more than 10 years in a variety of fields, mostly in hospitality and administration. Aftering identifying an interest in visualisations with Tableau Andrew decided to further his skills in data analytics .
He now aims to use data to enhance insights and assist businesses in making informed decisions while learning and growing in this industry. Outside of work, Andrew enjoys spending his time cuddling his dog and being a bed for his two cats. He always keen on trying new cuisines and travelling around the world.
Alternative to Power BI’s cards
Introduction Everyone loves big numbers on their reports. After all, it's an impactful way of getting attention. So it's reasonable to use Power BI's Card visual. It's simple to implement; click the card, then select your field/measure. This simplicity does come with...
Create Zoomable Charts in Power BI
Introduction Depending on the values in a chart, Power BI may not start the chart's axes at 0. By default, it will start at the nearest value where there is increased visibility of the values. Although you can change the range of the axes manually, these changes are...
Build an Interactive Resume/CV using Tableau
Introduction In today's competitive job market, it's important to stand out from the crowd with a visually appealing resume. One way you can achieve this is as a Data Analyst is by creating an interactive resume using Tableau/Tableau Public. For you beginners out...
Dynamically shift lines using a parameter in Tableau
Introduction In this blog post, I will be featuring a very cool and useful function in Tableau: Dynamically shifting lines using a parameter. With this feature a user can shift a line chart across the x-axis (for time) to account for time lags and investigate if there...
Move over Navigation Objects. Dynamic Zone Visibility is here (feat. Taylor Swift)
It's me. Hi. You've probably heard all the buzz surrounding Tableau's newest feature, Dynamic Zone Visibility. You've probably heard it allows you to swap sheets. And you've probably seen that it hide and show containers based on a parameter/boolean (True/False)...
Arrange Tool Use Case
In this blog post, I am going to highlight an overlooked tool in Alteryx which can help make formatting multiple columns a little bit easier. This tool is the Arrange tool. It has the ability to take data from multiple columns and combine them into one column....
Thoughts and Reflections from DSAU 15
As the four months of training at The Data School Down Under draws to an end, each member from cohort DSAU15 offers their thoughts, reflections and advice on their training. In no particular order: Mark's simple, yet meaningful tip When first seeing a new dataset,...
Tableau tip: Using Padding
One Tableau feature that is often overlooked is padding. Padding is a great way to format and give space to components on the dashboard. This can help you create a more visually appealing dashboard. What is the difference between Outer and Inner Padding? In order to...
Dashboard Week Day 5 – Gettin’ Silly With It: AFL Silliness with Height and Weight
Today's sponsor was coffee. The task Using cleaned AFL data, we jumped right into finding our story. The approach Despite tiredness and headache, I decided to have some fun with it. Instead of relating it to the game and trying to do an analysis within the game (which...
DSAU 15 Dashboard Week Day 4 – It’s the Remix to Census data
The task Using Census 2021 data, we were advised to pick at least two topics and deliver a dashboard. Transforming the data may have been required and also changing the column headers. Don’t spend time getting paralysis by analysis! The approach I read some of...