Junya Wang
Junya moved to Australia to undertake her Master’s degree in Accounting in Melbourne. In the last 3 years, she has gained experience working in real estate, energy consulting and engineering. Word of The Data School from a podcast perked her interest in the Data School. Recently, she gained permanent residency and CPA in Australia and wanted to shift her career away from accounting and into data analytics. If she isn’t eating wagyu beef at a Korean BBQ you can find her dancing hip hop in the backstreets of Newtown.
Reflective Blog – To The New Chapter
While the world turned upside-down by the Coronavirus (COVID-19), we ended our 4 months Data School training with a virtual graduation yesterday. Here are some thoughts I would like to share with those we are thinking about joining the data school or about to start...
5 Things I Learned About Leadership & Teamwork
Up till now, we had seven client-weeks and all went successful. Overall, we are a self-functioning team that shares the same goal, that is, to present something insightful and truthful to our clients. This makes it easy to manage a team of 8, however, it is not...
Dashboard Week – Day3 – Kickstart the Kickstarters
Today we have an interesting dataset for Dashboard week. The Kickstarter data from Kaggle. There are two datasets and everyone in the cohort all agreed that one of them is completer and more updated than the other, so we decided to only look at the former dataset. I...
Dashboard Week – Day 2 – Piracy Around the World
The second day into the dashboard, we were given data from MSI(Maritime Safety Information). The data can be downloaded in different formats such as HTML and XML. HTML format comes with spatial columns however harder to parse compare with CSV. Lucky enough, the CSV...
Dashboard Week – Day Four – Changes of Consumer Spending In the US
Day four into the dashboard week, we were being given data from here. The data was reshaped to some extent, however, the challenge with data this time is to normalise it with the inflation rate. Chris discovered the inflation rate on this website. This is year-on-year...
Dashboar Week – Where in the US Will be Hit the Hardest by Coronavirus
This week has been an intense week of Dashboard and Blogs exercise. To finish this week off, we have data from the CDC(Centres for Disease Control and Prevention). To give you a brief introduction, the dataset includes 2017, 2016 model-based small area estimates for...
How to Insert Embedded Tracks into Tableau
First day of dashboard week we practiced using Alteryx and Spotify API to retrieve data for Tableau visualization. I will skip the process of API connection since some of my workmates have already posted blogs about this. You can check out Ryan's blog for some API...
The Alteryx Summarize Tool – More Than Just Summarize
During last week’s client project, I had the chance to work with Alteryx to solve some survey data problems. One thing that I learned was the summarize tool is very useful to check results, especially making sure joins are correctly performed. Taking the...
Cross Tab – My New Best Friend
If I can give myself in the past a piece of advice about Tableau, that would be to use crosstab. This is especially the case when you have a lot of calculations going on in your Tableau workbook. During those days preparing for the Data School application, I often...
3 things I wish I knew About Alteryx
This first week of The Data School has been very eventful. We were visited by Chris from Tableau on Tuesday and we visited Alteryx Australia head office on Wednesday. We were fortunate to have Jody-John Phillips, the Country Manager (ANZ) at Alteryx, presenting to us,...