Chantel Brooke
After graduating with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (Hons), Chantel spent several years working as a Logging-While-Drilling Engineer on oil and gas rigs. After then travelling the world for a couple of years she decided to return to Australia and discovered the world of data analytics. She loves being able to apply her knack for problem solving to discover stories in data. In her spare time Chantel loves travelling, indoor rock climbing and hiking.
Reflections on Data School Training
It's the last week of training for us in DSAU4 and its amazing how fast the last 16 weeks have flown by. Its been a fun but challenging experience. It was daunting at first to start in a completely new field after being an engineer for several years. But the Data...
Dashboard Week, Day Five – New York Museums
For the final day of dashboard week we were given data on museums located in the United States from Enigma Public. There was location data for each museum so I thought it would be interesting to find some other spatial data to supplement it. I decided to find hotel...
Dashboard Week, Day Four – Gender Equality and Religion
For the fourth day of Dashboard Week we were tasked with visualizing data from the World Bank. The challenge was no Alteryx, any data preparation or manipulation was to be done in Tableau Prep. I was interested in the statistics on gender but wanted to find another...
Dashboard Week, Day Three – Visualizing the Titanic Disaster in Power BI
For Dashboard Week day three, we were challenged to create a dashboard in Power BI to visualize data on the Titanic disaster. We were set various challenges to complete including: Merge Joins Edit Queries Create DAX Formulas Use a Custom Visual Have some Interaction...
Dashboard Week, Day Two – Melbourne Cup Regex Web-Scraping
Day two of Dashboard Week was the day of the Melbourne Cup. The Melbourne Cup is a famous annual horse race here in Australia. So for dashboard week we were tasked with web scraping statistics on the horses from various betting websites. Because of how the website was...
Dashboard Week, Day One – NSW Transport API
For day one of Dashboard Week we were tasked with downloading data from one of the APIs from Transport New South Wales at opendata.transport.nsw.gov.au. I decided to download data from the Traffic Volume Counts API. This API had the locations of traffic count stations...
Using the Distance Calculation to Create a Dynamic Buffer Around a Point in Tableau 2019.3
In September 2019 Tableau released version 2019.3 where distance calculations were introduced. Adi Mcrea from the Data School UK was visiting us here in Australia and she gave us a great session on Spatial Analytics. One of the things she covered was the new distance...
Using Parameter Actions for Dynamic Date Ranges in Tableau
For a recent client project I created a KPI dashboard that was able to show varying date ranges such as the last month, the last 3 months, last 6 months as well as data for each year in the data set. I thought it would be a good use case for parameter actions to...
Alteryx Advanced Certification Guide and Resources
The Alteryx Certification Exams are a great challenge when learning how to use Alteryx Designer. Being quite new to Alteryx, I found them helpful to focus on what tools to learn. After having recently passed the Alteryx Advanced Certification I thought I would share a...
Understanding Table Calculations with Specific Dimensions in Tableau
Last week I had a light-bulb moment of finally understanding how table calculations were computing using specific dimensions in Tableau. Previously I would just try changing how the table calculation was calculating until I arrived at the right answer without really...