Jamie Ferreira
Jamie graduated from the University of Sydney with majors in Data Science and Business Analytics. He has a passion for problem solving and data analytics and was looking to gain industry experience using business tools such as Tableau and Alteryx, hence he decided to join the Data School. Jamie also enjoys traveling, with Vietnam and Thailand being ticked off his backpacking list. During his spare time, he enjoys spending his time listening to music and playing sports, particularly AFL, basketball and golf.
Dashboard Week Day 5 – Ioha Liquor Sales
It is the final day of dashboard week, and I am still alive! The good news is that the final challenge was my favorite. The bad news is that unlike the other days we only had a few hours to work on our dashboard before presenting at 3pm. So, lets jump into it right...
Dashboard Week Day 4 – Solar Energy
Its Day four of Dashboard week and perhaps the hardest challenge yet. Today we were given data from various solar panel topics ranging from household solar generation to large scale energy production farms. The Catch – at least one external dataset had to be...
Dashboard Week Day 3 – Graphic Design
Its Day three of dashboard week and the data for today’s challenge is the Superstore data… Yes, that is the infamous tableau default dataset. However, today’s focus was around graphic design and trying to make the dashboard as ‘un-tableau’ as possible. I really...
Dashboard Week Day 2 : London Smart Meters
Day two of dashboard and here we go again! Today’s challenge was more tableau orientated with less data wrangling and extraction required. The Data The data provided was related to London smart meters, specifically the energy usage of households over two years. The...
Dashboard Week Day 1 : Sydney Lightrail
The end is near for data school cohort eight, but first dashboard week. Throughout the week I will be write about my experiences with each of the daily challenge. I will share my thought process, any tips and challenges and the final dashboard I have come up with....
How to Build a Calendar in Tableau
Dates can be tricky to handle and visualize and us humans are used to reading dates in a calendar format. Luckily in tableau with a couple of cool tricks it is easy to reproduce this calendar format: First we need to identify the hierarchy of different...
Understanding Alteryx Joins from an SQL background
Like many people, SQL was my go-to tool for joining different datasets and other database queries. Now that I have been exposed to Alteryx through my training at the Data School Down Under, I was surprised to find out that joins and unions in Alteryx was much more...
What is the Test of Means Tool?
Consider the following scenario, students from two different schools complete the same exam. The score averages for both schools differ. But how do we do know that this difference is caused by the education standards of the school or whether it just natural...