Shuchita Sharma
Shuchita has a post-graduate degree in Environmental Science. While looking for alternate career options, after having taught high school students for five years, she was drawn to the ability of data visualization and effective communication through storytelling. It was during this period that she heard about The Data School Down Under and it seemed the perfect way forward. Outside of data, Shuchita likes spending time with family, bushwalking and exploring the outdoors.
Reflections – 16 weeks at the Data School
Sixteen weeks at the Data School Down Under have absolutely flown by! I still remember the first day of training, feeling excited and overwhelmed at the same time; excited about the new opportunity and overwhelmed about the challenges I could face in this new world of...
How good is my trend line?
You’ve built a scatter plot and managed to drag and drop a trend line. Now what? What does your trend line tell you? To answer this question, we must look at the description of the model which we can access by either hovering over the trend line or by right-clicking...
Dashboard Week, Day 5: Journalists killed (1992-2019)
Friday was the last day of the dashboard week. And our task was to build a dashboard on data from CPJ (Committee to protect journalist) in Tableau 8.3! We downloaded the older version and it felt like we had traveled back in time. The interface looked very different...
Dashboard Week, Day 4: Cancer-just beat it!
For day 4 of dashboard week, we were asked to choose a data set from Gapminder website to build our dashboard. I have previously never used this website, but it is a great source for data at a country level. I always wanted to build a visualization on a topic related...
Dashboard week: Day 3 Cricket world cup fever
It was day 3 of dashboard week and even DS Down Under couldn’t escape the Cricket World Cup fever! Yes, our challenge was to design a dashboard on cricket. I have been a massive of fan of cricket (although don't can't find time now to watch the game) and it felt good...
Dashboard Week: Day 2
It’s Power BI day today. One of our Assistant Coaches’ from MIP, Madeli was at DS to give us the challenge. And our challenge was to not only build a visualization in Power BI but also do the joins and data prep in the same tool. Imagine asking someone who has been...
Dashboard week: Day 1
The famous dashboard week at Data School Down Under kicked off yesterday. Our first task was to use Domain group's free API to get data for our visualization. We were required to explore documentation on 'agents & listings' and 'properties & locations'...
Alteryx Designer Core Exam-Top tips
Certification exams are a great way to prove your skills and learn more about the tool. As part of our sixteen weeks’ training program at the data school, we are required to pass two certification exams: Tableau Desktop and Alteryx Designer Core. I’m happy to say I...
Context Filters in Tableau
While working with the Sample Superstore data set (yet again!), it was required to show the sales for the top 10 most profitable customers in the Small Business segment. I dragged ‘Customer Name’ to rows and Sales to columns and filtered the ‘Customer Name’ by ‘Top...
Using Sets to Colour a Map
While using maps, we sometimes want to show multiple colors for a single dimension on it. Let's say, top 5 and bottom 5 states by profit in a country. An easy way to do this is by creating sets which means having a subset of data of top 5 and bottom 5 states by...