Summer Dong
Summer graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and a Master’s in International Hotel Management. She discovered the beauty and power of data while working as a Quality Improvement Manager in the hotel industry. Before joining The Data School, she also worked in the education industry as a Work Integrated Learning Facilitator. In her spare time, she enjoys free diving, watching documentaries, and spending time in nature.
Dashboard Week Day 4 – Stay Away From the Accidents!
It is day 4 of the dashboard week. Dave decided to let us off easy after yesterday's trauma with the API. We got a perfectly organized data set - the Victoria Crash Stats. The idea was to not to do much data wrangling and take the data into Tableau to build a Viz...
Dashboard Week Day 3 – Let’s Play!
In the blink of an eye, it's already day 3 of the dashboard week. Topic today is to run an API on Giant Bomb for some gaming data. The gamers in my cohort got really excited before we got block by the site as we were using different key for the same IP address....
Dashboard Week Day 2 – Olympics Swimming Medals vs. Participants
Today is the day 1 of the dashboard week. We were let off easy with a very clean and straightforward data set - 120 years of Olympic history: athletes and results. It is the same data DSAU8 had for their final stage of application, so the challenge here is to not take...
Dashboard Week Day 1 – Asian Households in the US
Today is the day 1 of the dashboard week. We were told in the morning that we were to get the most difficult data of the week. The data we got was the American Housing Survey 2019. It was challenging to get deep understanding of an extensive data set like this and...
How to present a Tableau dashboard?
If you are applying for the data school or working on your first client project, you are probably thinking – "How can I give a killer presentation on my dashboard?" This blog will share with you my best tips that I've learnt so far over 9 weeks of data school...
How to Do Sheet Swapping in Tableau?
This blog will demonstrate how to use a parameter to hide/show different views on a dashboard, which is often referred to as sheet swap. Follow the six steps below and you will be surprised how simple it is to do the magic! In my example, I have created a map and a...
Tableau Tip: Single Drill Down with Set Action
While watching Bethany Lyons’s set action demo last week, I was impressed by how she uses Set Action to add playful interactivity to a viz. This blog is a step by step guide of single drill down - one of the tricks I have learned from Bethany Lyons’s work. I will...
Things You Want to Know Before The Data School Application
If you are reading this, you must be considering applying for The Data School, then well done for being pro-active doing your research! After studying The Data School website and reading through many blogs you might still have tons of questions. Don't worry, you are...