Jonathon Cavalieri
Jonathon studied Electronic and Communications Engineering at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Jonathon came across the Data School while looking for graduate positions that combine his passion for both data analytics and life-long learning. Having never used Tableau or Alteryx before, he quickly familiarised himself with the tools and was astounded at the flexibility and responsiveness the tools had in developing solutions to problems big and small.
Data School Down Under Reflective Blog
Final week of training at the Data School Down Under done and the next stage about to begin. I am excited and a little bit nervous to be starting at Lendlease where I will be for the first six-month placement. Much like when I first started the training I am not...
DashBoard Week Day 5: Australian Toilets
The final day of Dashboard week is done. It was a bit different to the other days. This time we were given the data straight away. But must done by 3 pm so we can present both today's and yesterday’s dashboards. The data source we were given detailed all the public...
DashBoard Week Day 4: Inaturalist
Day four of dashboard week began with the usual presentation of the previous days work. For me I presented my day two dashboard because I had a shadow day on Wednesday and was out of the office for the entire day. After this we were given a new data set to begin it...
DashBoard Week Day 2: Sydney Trains
For day two of dashboard week we were given a task to pull from NSW transport API. Specifically we were to pull timetable information and real time delay data for Sydney trains. The API was relatively simple to get going. Just create an account. Add the API endpoints...
DashBoard Week Day 1: Melbourne Cup
We are entering the final few weeks of the training program. This week we have entered into Dashbaord week. Where each day we are given a data set, generally with some sort of challenge to it. With the Melbourne Cup tomorrow we were given data scrapped of racenet...
Tableau Designing for Mobile Tips
This week at the Data School we had teaching week. Where each of the DSers took a topic that they need improvement in and then taught the topic to the rest of the group. I had the topic of designing for mobile. Here are some of the tips i found while researching the...
Tableau Desktop Qualified Associate Exam
I recently took the Tableau Desktop Qualified Associate exam. I am going to go through my preparation, results and some tips I hope will help anyone that has not yet sat the exam. Before this one I had only done the Alteryx core exam at the Data School. While this was...
HTML Table Generator Alteryx Macro
In our week 8 client project with LendLease we had the task of creating an automatic emailing system in Alteryx to email a series of tables to several different people. This might sound like an easy task, but it had the extra condition that it could not use the...
Tableau 2018.3 Beta Feature – Navigation Action
Tableau 2018.3 is currently in Beta with a range of new features, all of which can be found here. I am looking specifically at the new dashboard navigation action. Previously you would have to create a filter action that does not apply any filtering, but now they have...
80/20 Rule
The 80/20 rule also known as the Pareto Principle states that approximately 80% of the effort comes from 20% of the causes. The name comes from the economist Vilfredo Pareto who showed that about 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population. In data...