Nick Seah
Nicholas Seah studied a Bachelor of Arts and Business at UNSW, and after working in cinema advertising as an Operations Coordinator, he discovered an interest in data analytics and decided to complete a Master of Commerce, majoring in Business Analytics. This led him to applying, and eventually joining, The Data School.
In his spare time, he enjoys watching and playing sports, particularly Basketball and Footy, camping and hanging out with friends, as well as writing and recording music.
A Mouldy, Voldy Breakdown – Day 5 of Dashboard Week
The final day of dashboard week is here, and we have a very fun topic to do today. Harry Potter is a beloved book/film series that was, and still is, a cultural phenomenon, and while the dataset itself wasn't very extensive (I brought in a couple additional bits of...
How Goal 8 of the Sustainable Development Goals has affected Europe at the Subregion Level – Day 4 of Dashboard Week
Day 4 of dashboard week involved curating our own data from the databank of worldbank.org, choosing the countries we want to look at in combination with the measures we want to analyze. These measures were all related to one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals...
What are the best cities to live in? Day 3 of Dashboard Week
Day 3 of dashboard week and we're still powering through. Today's assignment was to web scrape data off of Numbeo's website, so I first took the crime index data (which was the requisite data) and added the quality-of-life index data to it. These can be found at Crime...
The Pokies or the Punt? Day 2 of Dashboard Week
For day 2 of dashboard week, we were given a large excel sheet of official Government data from the Australian Gambling Statistics. We then had to choose between either data tables that contained a breakdown of the different gambling products by state, or a breakdown...
MyHospitals API Dashboard – Day 1 of Dashboard Week
Dashboard week has begun, and we started by utilizing API hospital data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Government website (found at MyHospitals Data API (aihw.gov.au)). To begin, we needed to download the data from the API URL and JSON parse it in...
An Overview of the Different Types of Macros
Macros are an interesting part of Alteryx that falls under the program's 'Interface' tool branch. They allow you to create customized tools that perform a specific analytic process repeatedly without the need for its' replication and can be saved and used across...
Overview of Appends, Joins, and Unions in Alteryx
Data comes in many shapes, sizes, and forms, and one of the most common occurrences of its' presentation is when it's provided for analysis in a multitude of different tables. This is once it has already been cleaned and transformed in a way that makes sense and is...
Second Client Project – What I Learnt About Being Project Leader
DSAU25 second completed client project was with an Australian tourism company. We primarily worked in Power BI, using Power Query to restructure their current data model and create visualizations that would allow them the ability to understand visually what was...
Important DAX Functions – How and When to Use Them
DAX DAX is an important query language used in Power BI that we've been learning during the last week of our training. While it's been difficult to wrap our heads around it exactly, the hope is that as we continue to use it, we'll get more and more comfortable with...
Our First Client Project – Overview and What I Learnt
DSAU25's first client project was with a company who gathers flight and tourism data, and on a rain filled Friday, we presented what we had found in the dataset over the course of a week of exploration. We first got a glimpse at a sample of the dataset the week prior...