Kier Bituin
Kier had graduated from Deakin University with a Master’s degree in Data Analytics. Before he started his journey at the Data School Down Under, he had a few years’ experience in the Bank & Financial Services industry. When he is not looking at the data, you will often find him listening to a variety of music (probably Prince) and supporting his favourite NBA basketball team, the Minnesota Timberwolves. If he could only choose one food for the rest of his life, he would choose palabok, a Filipino noodle dish.
3 Tips on How to Get the Right Data For Your Dashboard
An Example of How I Wanted to Find Data For My Dashboard There is always a topic with data out there waiting for its story to be told. I went on a recent road trip around New Zealand and while I was at Wellington, one thing that stood out to me was a single wind...
Colour Palettes on Tableau – Create your own colour palette or find existing palettes
Colour, or color, depending on where you are from, is essential to Tableau dashboard design. Tableau has its own colour palettes that does well but sometimes you may want to change it up to suit your style or match a theme. After dashboard week, I realised that I...
Dashboard Week – Day 5: Heating and Cooling for New Dwellings in NSW
The challenges this week definitely heated things up and now it is time to cool down. The whole week was exciting and I enjoyed the fast-paced action but I'm also glad that it is finally over. My key takeaway from this was that I became to understand more about my own...
Dashboard Week – Day 4: University Education in Scandinavian Countries
Skål! Dashboard week is almost over! One half of me wants this gruelling week to be over but the other half is just loving it and enjoying the challenges. Our challenge for Day 4 was about the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) and looking at the Top 2000...
Dashbord Week – Day 3: Volatility in Cryptocurrency
API - a dream and a nightmare. My favourite thing about APIs is being able to retrieve data without the need to download a file but can also be tricky to avoid your API key getting block from querying too much. Check out my Day 3 dashboard here:...
Dashboard Week – Day 2: World Bank Financial Management Information Systems Projects and Financial Activity in Africa
For Day 2's challenge for Dashboard Week we see a familiar old friend (and foe), Excel Spreadsheets! Since joining The Data School Down Under, I've rarely found the need to open up a Excel Spreadsheet to organise data. When I was introduced to Alteryx, I never looked...
Dashboard Week – Day 1: A Day at the Races
5 Days. 5 Challenges. 5 Dashboards. 5 Blogs. This week the first Melbourne cohort of the Data School takes on Dashboard Week. It is only fitting that the very first Melbourne cohort takes on the data from the City of Melbourne Open Data where we explore the Census of...
Don’t Be Me – Purpose: Who are Using the Dashboards
Welcome to my second entry of the Don't Be Me series where I go through my mistakes that I have learned during my training at the Data School Down Under and I hope that anyone who does read this can avoid these mistakes. The following discussion here relates to Part 2...
Project Starter: Part 2 – 3 Tips to Learn the Data’s Story
It has been a few weeks since Part 1 of this series and since then I have learned lots at the Data School Down Under with still plenty to learn. One thing that I have learned was finding a story for your data. In this blog, I will go through 3 tips to help explore and...
How to Make a Simple Waterfall Chart
This is a tutorial inspired by Andy Kriebel and Ryan Sleeper. You can learn how to make an interactive waterfall chart with parameters that you can apply to almost any dataset you want to use. I will use the 'Sample - Superstore' dataset that you comes with the...