Stephanie You
Stephanie graduated with a Bachelor of Business and a double major in Marketing and Banking & Finance from Monash University. She continued on in her career to gain experience in design, marketing and social media across multiple industries. Her university lecturer inspired her to make the transition into data analytics. With her background in business and design, she aims to consider how clients would use data in everyday business and present it in a way that creates a positive user experience.
In her personal time, Stephanie enjoys reading, music and cooking. Her favourite cuisines to enjoy are Tex-Mex and Japanese.
What I Learned from Dashboard Week
Dashboard week at The Data School is an intensive and challenging week of creating a new dashboard from scratch on either Tableau or Power BI each day. At the start of the day, we are given the project details and dataset or guidelines to finding a dataset. In...
How to Use Sets in Tableau
Sets in Tableau are a powerful tool to create subsets of data based on certain conditions. This can add interactivity to your Tableau dashboards for your users through set actions. In this blog, we will go through a use case for sets in Tableau and the step-by-step...
Using Tableau Parameters to Swap Views
Parameters are a quick and powerful tool in Tableau. One way to use parameters is to build a chart and allow a user to change a dimension or measure that is being viewed. It allows the dashboard creator to add more information using only one chart while providing...
Leading a Team of Data Analysts
For the second client project for cohort DSAU22, I had the privilege of taking on the role of project lead for my team for a major streaming service company. Leading a team of data analysts was a vastly different experience to simply being a member of the team because...
Pivoting Data in Alteryx with Transpose and Crosstab Tool
Two common tools used in Alteryx for data manipulation is the transpose and crosstab tool. It is important to understand the difference between the two tools and is crucial for data analysts to learn because it offers quick ways to reshape and organise data in...
The Perfect Use Case for Decomposition Trees
Decomposition trees or dendrograms are a powerful and easy-to-implement visualisation in Microsoft Power BI. It offers a way to break down your data into further categories within a limited dashboard space while maintaining interactivity by giving users the ability to...
Dashboard Week Day 4 – APIs and Spatial
The fourth day of dashboard week was about APIs and spatial data. We were tasked with creating a Tableau dashboard using a dataset found on the City of Melbourne Open Data website. Using this data, we then need to retrieve the data using the API in a JSON format. When...
The Insights Matrix
On my first day of dashboard week, I ran into the challenge of finding insights from a limited number of fields in my dataset. While trying to look for ways around this challenge, I created a table called the Insights Matrix to help find relationships between...
Dashboard Week Day 3 – Power BI
Day 3 of dashboard week was Power BI day. We were challenged to create a dashboard with a focus on storytelling. We were limited in our data choice to only Victorian crime statistics from the government. Follow along as I take you through how I tackled this challenge....
Dashboard Week Day 2 – Sports Day
On the second day of dashboard week, we were tasked with creating a Tableau dashboard using a sports dataset from a list on GitHub. The dataset I chose to use for this challenge was Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Having watched a few UFC fights in the past, I...