Fabrice Joseph
Originally from Mauritius, Fabrice moved to Australia to complete a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) at the University of Queensland. Since graduating, Fabrice accumulated 7+ years of experience in primarily management accounting roles and a couple of entrepreneurial projects. Having encountered data in the accounting profession, Fabrice had developed a passion for analysing data, extracting insights and findings ways to improve his workflow. Such is his passion for data that he has data projects as hobbies. Data School was the natural next step for him to launch his career in data. Besides data, Fabrice has other interests such as yoga, reading books on ancient history and philosophy.
Dashboard Week | Day 4 | Solar Energy Challenge
Being a multi-passionate professional, one of the other fields (besides data) that I am passionate about are social and environmental causes. Hence, why I found the day 4 dataset very interesting. Day 4 datasets were all about solar energy generation. We were given 2...
Dashboard Day 5 | Iowa Liquor Sales | Estimating Tax Revenue
Last day of dashboard week. It has been fun. Long hours but I enjoyed the process very much. The Challenge For this challenge, we were given a dataset of liquor sales for the state of Iowa in the US. Since Iowa is an alcohol controlled state, the state purchases...
Day 3 | Dashboard Week 3 | Effective Visual Design | Mount Olympus Superstore
Day 3’s theme is all about visual design. Before giving us the challenge, Shane Dooley from MIP shared with us 3 key design principles for building effective dashboards. First, I will share with your those 3 principles and then I outline how I applied these principles...
Dashboard Week | Day 2 | London Energy Consumption (Smart Meter dataset)
For this challenge, I decided to answer the following question: Are demographics properly represented in London's smart meter experiment? Interestingly, affluent groups account for 39% of the sample size in the experiment while these groups only account for 12% of...
Dashboard Week | Day 1 | Transport NSW Open Data | Where is My Bus?
Are you a regular public transport user? Do you rely on public transport to travel to most places including the beach? If you have answered yes to these questions, then you have most likely used apps such as Google Maps or Moovit to get real-time data on your chosen...
Text Analytics for Project Controls | Alteryx X Python
In this article, I demonstrate a use case where text analytics can be applied to project cost control. I created a workflow using Alteryx to group project activities according to their description; vectorized using the TF-IDF ( Term Frequency and Inverse Document...
Querying an API using Alteryx + Python – Pleiades API (Historical Places)
Why I chose this API Unless you study the classics or are a big history buff like me, chances are you have never come across this API before. Quoting from their website: "Pleiades is a community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places."; which is a very valuable...
Spatial Data Analytics X Ancient History – using Tableau & Alteryx
History and Data History is a very data-rich field. The narrative that we call history is based on the data that have survived, whether complete and accurate, partial, distorted, or biased. However, we can always find fresh new perspectives, out-of-the-box thinking,...
From Excel User to Alteryx User
Do you primarily use Excel to prepare and clean your data? What if I told you if there was a better way to create a data prep workflow that is repeatable, auditable, and easy to hand-over? A couple of weeks ago, I discovered a powerful tool called Alteryx. Our first...