Tamara Allcock
Tamara has an interesting background in veterinary science, data analytics and retail. She discovered her passion for analytics while working on a range of research projects involving Australian and exotic wildlife. She was excited to learn about the Data School and the opportunities it provided to develop this interest into a career path. It may be a common preference, but she thinks you can’t go wrong the variety of options a delicious pizza offers. In her spare time, Tamara is an avid reader and watcher of fantasy, science-fiction or assorted pop culture and also enjoys painting, craft projects and writing.
Who Wants a Stiff Drink? ‒ Dashboard Week | Day 5
Phew, last day? Last challenge?! Wow – we’ve (nearly) made it! And it’s certainly been an intense week with some very tight deadlines in which to manage a lot of data wrangling and creative building in Tableau, but I’ve certainly learnt some new tricks! First up...
Finding Alternative Approaches… To Power! ‒ Dashboard Week | Day 4
Today’s challenge was to assume a situation where we are limited by the specific technology we have on hand to work with. For these reasons, we were only allowed to use the Tableau suite to construct our datasets. Additionally, the further objective was to source and...
Design Psychology and AI: What’s Watched Where and Why? ‒ Dashboard Week | Day 3
Day three and today’s challenge was a change in perspective – quite literally. The goal was not to build from a supplied or obtained dataset. But to build in way that ultilises the natural path a viewers eye will follow and apply this understanding to better...
London’s Smart Meters Reveal the Smartest Rates ‒ Dashboard Week | Day 2
On the second day we were given the task of using Acorn data for ‘Smart Meters in London’ which looks into research on the Low Carbon Emissions. The Alteryx Approach There were a number of datasets from the original study available, including demographics data,...
NSW Transport: Road Hazards ‒ Dashboard Week | Day 1
We’ve heard a lot about ‘Dashboard Week’ during our time with the Data School. It is spoken of in hushed, fearful tones through hidden corners by those that have battled before us. Well, our time has finally come… Monday morning and our first challenge is to use an...
Power BI and Making Tooltips
While the Data Schools focuses on learning Tableau and Alteryx, we had the opportunity to undertake training in Power BI. I enjoyed learning a new system and I feel it has great potential as a visualisation tool. For example, it has a number of pre-set visuals (such...
Tableau Prep: A Great Way to Get Squeaky Clean Data
Tableau Prep is a self-service data preparation product that provides a visual, easy means of cleaning, shaping and combining data. It is used in association with Tableau Prep Conductor, which enables analysts and businesses to better monitor, manage and schedule...
Reference Lines and Indicators
In week two we began our deeper dive into applying the many, many elements available within Tableau. An aspect that is valuable to know for highlighting and communicating whether a key target has been reached is Reference Lines or indicators. These allow the audience...
Week 1 Experiences
Well, when it came to choosing the topic of my initial post with the Data School; since I had personally read some ‘Week 1’ blogs which provided helpful indicators for what to expect for the beginning of my own DSAU adventure, what else could I choose for a first blog...