Asha Surabhi
Asha has a computer science degree and has experience in Business Intelligence.
She started learning Tableau after a long career break and instantly got hooked on the creative visualisations in the Tableau community. She loves to create custom charts and loves the flexibility of Tableau to create stunning visualisations. She also dived into data analytics and found bringing meaning to raw data and finding new insight interesting.
She came to know about Data School while doing Makeover Monday projects and found it the perfect opportunity to work on real life situations.
In her free time, she loves reading and painting.
Selecting ‘All’ values using a parameter in tableau
Parameters can be used as filter in tableau. However , we can only select one value at a time. Recently I had a requirement to filter months using parameter. I needed to select individual months and also 'All' months. Below are the steps to achieve this. Create...
Dashboard Week Day 4: IMDB API
For Day 4 of the dashboard week, we had to use IMDB API to find our data set. I focused on the TV Show 'Stranger Things' as I am currently watching it 🙂 . There are three parts for the Dashboard. I went with an informative style for today Writing and Direction :...
Dashboard Week – Day 2 : UFO Sightings
So we are in Day 2. Todays data set was interesting - UFO sightings around the world! The first task was to scrape the data from https://nuforc.org/databan/ UFO reports can be accessed from the following four indexes: Index by EVENT DATE Index by STATE Index by SHAPE...
Switch between charts using parameter and container in Tableau
If you need to switch between two completely different visualization with different number of measures, dimensions ,filters or chart types like a map or bar in the same space on your dashboard you can use containers along with parameter. Lets look at an example We...
Dashboard Week Day 5 :US County Business Pattern
Fifth and Final Day of Dashboard week! The Data set for today was US County Business Patterns. The Data is from 2017-2020 and had details on number of establishments, employment, first quarter payroll and annual payroll for each congressional district. The original...
Dashboard Week : Day 3 London Housing Market
Another Dashboard! For Day 3 we had the data on London House Prices . The story I wanted focus is on the changes in Average price and Sale Volume during Covid. The first step as always was to clean the data. The data set had data for both London Borough and Regions...
Dashboard Week : Day 1 – Thought Process and Tips
Today we were given a data set which had food nutrient information along with Food Details, Recipe information and measure for each food item. My approach was to start with Recipe data and figure out the nutrient information and calorie details for each of the...
Arcs and Curves in Tableau
When it comes to shapes , there are studies that suggest humans are more inclined to slight curves. It comes as no surprise with the popularity of visualization that has curves or arcs in it. It gives a WOW factor. The usability of such charts may be questionable,...