Samuel Goodman
Samuel was born in Japan and has traversed between Japan and New Zealand throughout his life, culminating in his study of Mechanical and Software Engineering at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
During his studies, he fostered a profound passion for working with data, acknowledging its immense significance.
Intrigued by the Data School’s immersive, hands-on approach to learning, he has relocated to Brisbane to join the program. In his leisure time, Samuel indulges in playing the guitar and gaming.
A Guide to Web Scraping – Identifying Elements
Web scraping is an automated method for extracting data from websites. It's a powerful tool that's indispensable for data scientists, programmers, and business analysts alike. In essence, web scraping involves a sequence of steps: Identifying the data you wish to...
Overcrowding in US Prisons – Dashboard Week Day 5
The final day of Dashboard Week, Day 5, arrived with a whirlwind of activities. With presentations for Day 4's dashboard in the morning and a new dashboard to be created and presented by 3 pm, time was indeed of the essence. For this day, we were assigned a dataset on...
Mapping Space X Satellites – Dashboard Week Day 4
Day 4 of Dashboard Week arrived, bringing a new challenge involving APIs. Initially, we were supposed to extract data on Australian Prime Minister speeches over the past 80 years using an API. However, complications such as anti-botting checks on the website, which...
Keeping Track of Star Trek – Dashboard Week Day 3
On the third day of Dashboard Week, we faced an interesting challenge: to develop a dashboard that would track and categorise various movies, TV shows, books, and other media related to Star Trek. Let's look at the step-by-step process I used to tackle this challenge....
Moore’s Law – Dashboard Week Day 2
Kicking off Day 2 of Dashboard Week, we were presented with a dataset focusing on GPUs and CPUs. Having some familiarity with computer hardware, I found today's challenge somewhat less daunting than the previous day's task. The day began with us presenting our work...
Accurate Rounded Bar Charts in Tablea
Rounded bars are a feature that is sorely missed in Tableau. Though there are multiple workarounds to achieve rounded bars, most of these methods render the bar chart hard to read and inaccurate. Today, I'm going to guide you through the process of creating accurate...
Connecting to a PostgreSQL server in Alteryx
Connecting to PostgreSQL with Alteryx PostgreSQL, or simply Postgres, is an open-source SQL relational database management system. Connecting to a Postgres database can be a bit challenging if you've never done anything similar before. Today, I'm going to teach you...
Becoming a Master Criminal in LA
Yesterday marked the start of Dashboard Week for the Brisbane cohort. We kicked things off with data pertaining to crimes reported to the Los Angeles Police Department from 2020 to 2023. The premise of Dashboard Week is to create a unique dashboard every day,...