Leo Huynh
Leo completed a Bachelor of Science degree majoring in psychology and neuroscience at the University of Sydney. While studying at university, he developed an interest in data analysis, appreciating how data can be used to inform decision making. During his free time, he enjoys playing video games, cooking, and listening to music. One of his favourite foods is Bún bò Huế (Vietnamese rice noodle dish with sliced beef).
Improve storytelling with formatting
Hey everyone, I am back with a trick that I picked up during dashboard week from my colleagues (namely Jeff and Jo). The tip is quite simple but it can dramatically change your presentation's flow allowing you to control the audience's view. So what is this tip I am...
How to extract data from PDFs
Hey everyone, for this blog I want to bring more awareness to a Microsoft Excel feature that allows you to extract data from images and pdfs. In the desktop version of Excel, you can import data from pdfs. I am using a PDF I downloaded from this website for this...
Dashboard Week – Day 5: Reflection
Hey everyone, today is the last day of DSAU14's dashboard week. To be honest it was quite a rough week but manageable in the end. In this blog, I want to write about my thoughts on dashboard week and what I've learnt from it. Earlier this week I've written about what...
Dashboard Week – Day 3: What I’ve learnt during dashboard week
Hey everyone, I’m on my 3rd day of dashboard week and wanted to document things I’ve learnt from the week so far. But first things first you can find today's dashboard here. There are three main takeaways that I think are important in surviving the week and might be...
Dashboard Week – Day 2: Data prepping rundown
Hey everyone, for day two of dashboard week, the team and I are using data from National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC). However, the data isn't nicely supplied unlike on day one. In order to use NUFORC's data, the first thing I did was web scraping. In total, I ended...
Dashboard Week – Day 1: What is the best food to eat for the rest of your life?
For day one of dashboard week, we were given 5 data sets from Australian & New Zealand Food Standards. The datasets were centred information around ingredient and recipe nutrients. I chose to use three of the five original datasets and another one from the same...
Dashboard Week – Day 4: Comparison of Movie Review Website
For day 4 of dashboard week, the datasets were from the movie database IMDb (insert link). However, the requirement was for the team to retrieve the data through APIs. The core dataset I retrieved was the ‘Top 250 Movies’ and supplementary data from IMDB. I want to...
Editing a dashboard to fit visualisation best practices
Data visualisation best practices For my week 2 challenge in the Data School Down Under, I was tasked with making improvements to one of my data visualisations to fit best practices. In this blog, I want to walk you through how I approached this challenge. When...