Mackillop Tran
Mackillop is an LLB and B. Psych graduate and is passionate about leveraging data to drive efficient business decisions. Before joining The Data School, she worked in the legal, financial, and construction sectors, assisting clients in both the public and private domains. Her experience as a data analyst intern sparked her love for simplifying complex ideas, leading her to transition from a Wills and Estates lawyer to data analytics. With a creative background in acrylic painting and photography, she aims to bring a unique perspective to her new career. In her spare time, Mackillop enjoys freediving, surfing, hiking, and camping.
Tableau Tips and Tricks Part 2
Welcome back to Part 2 of our Tableau Tips and Tricks series! If you caught the first blog post, you know we already covered some pretty solid tips to help you get the most out of Tableau. In this post, we're diving into five more tricks that’ll help you work smarter,...
Importing Custom Icons on Tableau Desktop
In the world of data visualization, standing out is key to keeping your audience engaged and making your insights stick. One easy way to do this in Tableau is by customizing your icons. Sure, Tableau comes with a set of default icons, but creating and importing your...
The Importance of Visual Hierarchy
Whether you're making a dashboard, website or poster, there are TWO main criteria to meet when creating any visual product: (1) get the message across concisely and efficiently (2) retain audience interest /attention In other...
Dashboard Week – Day 5: Could you Afford to be a Single Mum?
It’s finally here—the last day of Dashboard Week! For our final challenge, we’re working with a massive dataset that covers everything from US childcare costs to wages by gender, shared income households, and population data, to name just a few. It’s a lot to unpack,...
Dashboard Week – Day 4: Dengue Fever
Data overview Another day another dashboard week day Today’s dataset topic is related to dengue fever whereby we have been tasked in finding supplementary data to create a story dashboard on Power BI. The data was very limited, and it was clear why a secondary data...
Dashboard Week – Day 3: US National Parks
It’s Day 3 and I’m tired. Time blocking hasn’t panned out very well for me and is something I really want to stick to for today’s challenge. Today, we’re going to be working with US National Park Service API data. This will require authorization and the usage of...
Dashboard Week – Day 2: Global Coal and Metal Mine Production
It’s Day 2 of Dashboard Week and we’re alternating to Power BI for today’s challenge. The beautiful Chantel chose an extensive and clean dataset relating to global coal and metal mine production. A bit about the data – 1,171 mines, 80 materials, 12 tables structured...
Dashboard Week – Day 1: Death Tolls on US Boating Accidents
Dashboard Week is upon us and this week we're kicking off with our first dataset - US Boating Accidents. The US Coast Guard maintains data on recreational boating accident reports and includes but not limited to details about each accidents, vessels, death and injury...
How to Create a Hex Title Map
1. Connect your spatial file You can download the spatial file here. The folder will contain the following files, make sure these are all contained in the same folder. Let’s make a relationship by dragging in the 'HexState.shp' file into tableau 2. Create a Map...
7 Types of Rests: Constantly feeling exhausted and don’t know why?
Meetings, training, kids, lunches, projects, deadlines, flights, more meetings! The world keeps turning and doesn't stop for anybody. We all know the saying - 'don't work yourself to death', but it's easy to get sucked into a non-stop working marathon when you're a...