Christopher Ktenas
Chris graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Finance and Marketing, and decided to pursue his passion for analytics after discovering the amazing potential of Tableau in his Marketing Metrics unit. The Data School specifically drew his attention due to the comradery and learning opportunities. In his spare time, Chris primarily enjoys engaging in sports; particularly rugby league and basketball; but is also fond of technology and music.
Connecting Tableau Metadata in Alteryx (Part 2 – API’s)
In the previous blog post, I explored how to connect to the Tableau PostgreSQL port 8060 (a database that stores tableau server metadata) using Alteryx. I also went through some examples of why you would want to connect through Alteryx. For today’s blog, I wanted to...
Connecting to Tableau Metadata in Alteryx (Part 1)
Alteryx and Tableau are a match made in heaven, and for today’s blog, I will showcase just one other beautiful pairing of these. Connecting to Tableau metadata (or more broadly the process of connecting to databases). Before we go through the process, however, I want...
How to Become a Pro at Tableau Dashboards
Over the past few months, one of my responsibilities at the Data School Down Under has been to review Tableau dashboards. This task has raised the question of how I approach building Tableau dashboards. In today’s blog, I wanted to share one of my preferred...
Beginners Guide To Alteryx Optimization
Prescriptive Analytics, a buzz word like predictive analytics, aims to find the “best” solution to a problem, given a number of constraints (business rules). Within Alteryx, there is a handful of sample workflows to help understand different prescriptive optimization...
Data School Australia Training Reflection
Today is cohort five’s final day of training, and our final agenda like all data schoolers is to write a reflection on our 4 months of training. In a world currently filled with uncertainty, I am thrilled to say that my time training was the best decision I’ve ever...
Using Spatial Equations in Tableau:
Unlike Alteryx Designer which has an extensive list of spatial tools and equations, Tableau offers equations with spatial capabilities that are more targeted towards the simple visualization side of analysis: Distance, Makepoint and Makeline under the spatial...
A Beginners Guide To Predictive Analytics in Alteryx
Predictive Analytics and machine learning evoke a certain kind of buzz, combining science and analytics to output an algorithm. In today’s blog, I will go through the process of predictive analytics in Alteryx, while explaining some key terms and requirements to...
Using Jitter to Show the Top 500 U.S Cities and Chronic Diseases for 2016 & 17
The final day of dashboard week gave Data School 5 from 9 pm to 3 pm to deliver a Dashboard on the United States' top 500 cities chronic diseases. Using the experiences I learned throughout the week, I will first explain in this blog how I approached the day, and give...
Creating Interactive Spiral Charts: United States Consumer Spending
Day four of Dashboard week saw DSAU5 working with US Consumer spending between 1959 to 2018. The data provided an eight-level hierarchy and our challenge was to firstly clean the aggregation in the data, normalize the data, and as always make an interesting story out...
Which Kickstarter Project Should You Start?
Dashboard Day 3 presented DSAU5 with Kickstarter Data. The premise of this challenge, however, was not to use Alteryx, but instead do all necessary data manipulation in tableau prep, or tableau desktop itself. Fortunately, the data was quite clean, so we plowed on...