Mitchell Bliesner
Mitchell studied astronomy and astrophysics at university and during his studies, realised he wanted to pivot into a career in data. He enjoyed working with data through high school and university. Once he found out about the data school opening in Brisbane, he taught himself Tableau and applied.
Mitchell is Alteryx Advanced certified with certification in Tableau and SQL also. With every week of training that goes by Mitchell realised that being a data analyst is the job for him.
Fake Data Challenge
Welcome back to my blog, I know this is very late, but I am going to talk about my experience completing the final challenge at The Data School Down Under. The challenge was to create a fictional dataset, make a dashboard and then present it on the final day. We had...
Dynamic Titles (Chart and Axis)
Welcome back to my blog. Today I will be showing you how to make dynamic axis and chart titles. The first step is to create a parameter which will be called Measure. This parameter needs will be set to three measures in our dataset, sales, profit, and quantity. Make...
Dynamic Reference Line
Welcome back to my blog. Today I will be showing you how to make a dynamic reference line in Tableau. In the realm of Tableau, reference lines stand as guides, offering a visual anchor to our data visualizations. Essentially, a reference line is a straight or curved...
Embracing Growth and Mastery: My 16-Week Journey at the Data School Down Under
As I look back on the past 16 weeks of my life, it's astounding to realize how much I've grown both personally and professionally during my training at the Data School Down Under. This transformative experience has equipped me with a toolkit of skills and knowledge...
Dashboard Week Day 5: US Jail Population
It’s the final day of dashboard week!! Today was a little bit different to other weeks as we had to present the same day. Usually, we get to work on it the whole day and present the next morning. Today, we all presented back to each other at 3:00pm which meant we...
Dashboard Week Day 4: SpaceX
Welcome back my blog. Today did not go as planned. I’m sure we have all had those days where nothing goes right. This morning began with learning about the next challenge which was to make a visualization on transcripts from Australian Prime Ministers speeches. The...
Dashboard Week Day 3: Star Trek
Welcome to Day 3 of Dashboard Week! In this challenge, I had dived into the world of Star Trek data, aiming to create an engaging dashboard. I formatted the data in Alteryx, joined the tables together, designed backgrounds in Figma, creates the tables I needed in...
Dashboard Week Day 2: CPU
Welcome to my blog for day 2 of dashboard week, today’s challenge was more of a challenge then yesterday. This morning began with presenting the dashboard from yesterday and received positive feedback. After presenting all our dashboards we received the next dataset...
Dashboard Week Day 1: LA Crime Data
Dashboard Week has begun!!!! This was a week that I was really excited for as I’ve really been wanting time to practice making dashboards and this is the perfect week to begin doing that. The challenge for day 1 was to create a dashboard using LA crime data. You can...
Solving a murder in Alteryx (Alteryx Challenge #136)
In a previous blog, I showed how I completed some Alteryx Challenges that were simple as I had just started learning Alteryx. You can read that blog here https://www.thedataschool.com.au/mitchell-bliesner/completing-two-alteryx-challenges-simple/. In this blog I will...