It’s been 15 weeks since the training began, and looking back, it’s been quite the journey. At the start, I was anxious about how I’d adapt to a new work environment, especially one so fast paced and focused on technical growth. I remember feeling overwhelmed there...

The Importance of Expression As data consultants, one of our key responsibilities is to deliver dashboards that not only provide actionable insights but also resonate with each client’s unique identity. A generic dashboard may get the job done, but a truly impactful...

The Art of Clean Canvases: Alteryx Tips from My Data School Journey When I first started using Alteryx, my main goal was just to get my workflow working, never mind how messy the canvas looked or how long it took to run! But after a few weeks (and a handful of broken...

Dataset Finally, the grand finale is upon us, the last dashboard of the week and thankfully it was data from a source that was immediately recognizable to all movie buffs! myself included the IMDb database. This dataset was primarily based on IMDb’s non-commercial...

There are times when a dashboard tries to do too much at once. There are filters, charts, KPIs and legends all in the view at the same time, driving the audience to visualisation paralysis. It can become cluttered and confusing. Sometimes to avoid this we end up over...

Dataset For my fourth viz of Dashboard Week, we were handed quite a complex dataset all about crossword puzzles over the years. Not something I ever thought I’d analyse, but it was surprisingly fun. The data was scrapped and loaded into .csv files and some of them...

Dataset For this dashboard challenge, we were given injury data in U.S from the NEISS (National Electronic Injury Surveillance System) dataset. I worked with six Excel files covering 2019 to 2024, each containing thousands of records on emergency department visits....

Dataset For the second Viz of the dashboard week we were tasked to hit up the Google cloud’s big query database on NCAA basketball. There were multiple tables within this database, and we were warned not to go down the rabbit hole of trying to bring through all the...

Dataset For my first Viz of the Dashboard week we were challenged to find a story in the Broadway database from playbill. This was not your typical excel dataset or a SQL database to extract and immediately start analysis, it was a shown as a weekly gross table...

Data Viz Giants When I joined data school around 3 months ago, I was under the impression that we would be heavily invested in just the one Data visualisation tool. I mean Afterall the entire application process revolved around Tableau and Tableau public. However, you...