Anthony Wong
Anthony graduated from UNSW with a Bachelor of Commerce( Marketing/Finance). Since graduating, he has worked in media for 3.5 years, managing media campaigns for clients like IGA Supermarkets, Proctor and Gamble and Mercedes Benz. From managing numerous post campaign reports, this seeded the beginning of data analytics for him. He developed a passion in finding insights and innovate ways to improve efficiency in data cleaning. He then completed further study in Data Analytics at RMIT, which provided a strong foundation into the world of analytics. He is excited to embark on a career in data analytics and Data School was naturally the suitable beginning. Outside of data, Anthony has a strong interest in Japanese and French culture. And in his spare time, he likes to perform stand up comedy, garden and play sports like oztag and ten-pin bowling.
Dashboard Week – Day 5 ‘CLUE Data’ – SKYNET MISSION BRIEFING TX
I'm 13 weeks in and this was the long-awaited 'dashboard week'. On our fifth day, we were supplied with a data set that DSAU12 used in their application. It was the 'Melbourne - Census Land Use and Employment' Dataset. For today's post, I will go over my approach and...
Dashboard Week – Day 4 ‘F1 Data’ – What can you learn from Daniel Riccardio’s F1 Career
I'm 13 weeks in and this was the long-awaited 'dashboard week'. On our fourth day, we were supplied with a data set about all the F1 race results from 1920 to 2021. For today's post, I will go over my approach and how I ended up with my current dashboard. I will focus...
Dashboard Week – Day 3 ‘Web scraping Airplane Crash Database’ – Analyzing the Number of Crashes Since Covid-19
I'm 13 weeks in and this was the long-awaited 'dashboard week'. On our third day, we were supplied with a data set from the Plane Crash Database. For today's post, I will go over my approach and how I ended up with my current dashboard. I will focus on how I planned...
Dashboard Week – Day 2 ‘ Whisky Hunter API’ – How to Compare your Whiskies
I'm 13 weeks in and this was the long-awaited 'dashboard week'. On our second day, we were supplied with a data set from the Whisky Hunter API. For today's post, I will go over my approach and how I ended up with my current dashboard. I will focus on how I planned...
Dashboard Week – Day 1 ‘ Aussie Charities’ – How to Reduce Your Taxes
I'm 13 weeks in and this was the long-awaited 'dashboard week'. On our first day, we were supplied with the data set from the Australian Register of Charities. For today's post, I will go over my approach and how I ended up with my current dashboard. I will focus on...
Memoirs of a Data School Applicant: 5 Tips to Manage 2nd/3rd Round Interview Stress PART 2
This is the 2nd part of my two-part series, I will go over the final three tips in this blog! Ask for feedback. The great thing about the application process is that you will provide feedback and you will also have the opportunity to ask questions. My tip, use it. ...
Tony’s Tableau Tips: Set Action buttons
Today I want to show you my favourite dashboard action; Set Actions. I like it because this was one of the very first things I learnt about Tableau. But in brief set actions allow you to let audiences interact with your dashboard, allowing them to select and change...
Tony’s Tableau Tips: Date Function References
Today I want to show you how to use date functions within your Tableau dashboards. Before I kick off you might be thinking "what are date functions"? Date functions allow date calculations to be computed. There are many types of date functions, however for a detailed...
Workout Wednesday #10 2020 ~ Using BUFFER() to find the nearest London Pub
Today we worked on a WOW Challenge that I found very useful in applying spatial data. The challenge is simple, replicate the below image. More importantly, it makes a great use case of the buffer() function and demonstrates many practical implications. Moreover, in...
Memoirs of a Data School Applicant: 5 Tips to Manage 2nd/3rd Round Interview Stress PART 1
So you made it to the 2nd or 3rd Round of the Data School Application. First off, congratulations on making it this far, it is an achievement. I want to share with you 5 tips that helped me navigate through these two rounds. This will be a two-part series, I will go...