Timble Michael
Meet Timble, born in India, and then moved to Australia with his parents in 2008 for a new start. Timble pursued a Bachelor’s degree (Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of the Sunshine Coast, where he sharpened his analytical and problem solving skills. Upon graduation he got the opportunity as a graduate engineer at Brisbane City Council in two different divisions.
After 2-years, he realised that his passion was not in engineering but elsewhere. Timble then took a graduate certificate in data science from the University of Adelaide, which ignited his passion for data analytics. He would then find out about the Data School Down Under, and gained entry into the program where he is learning and mastering data analytics and data visualisation skills.
Recreating Hans Rosling’s “Joy of Stats” Visualisation from the BBC Presentation
When you are in the world of data it would be very difficult have not heard about Hans Rosling. He was a Swedish physician, academic, and public speaker. And he was one of the biggest promoters of using data and data visualisation to promote to explore development...
Cooking Week at the Data School
One of the more unique aspects of being in the Data School is each data schooler having to cook a dish of their choice (during training) and bring it in on their chosen week to share with the cohort. And the winner is announced at the graduation event, at the end of...
Dashboard Week, Day 5 – Formula 1
We all finally made it to the final day of dashboard. A slight change of plans, rather than presentations in the morning we will be presenting both the day 4 and day 5 dashboard in the afternoon. The challenge for day-5 is in regards to Formula 1 racing. There is a...
Dashboard Week, Day 4 – Is there a Correlation between happiness and Health Expenditure
Day 4 has arrived and we are all pretty tired. As usual, we had our presentations in the morning and then we were given our challenge. As the title suggest we were given data on the world happiness index and, the challenge is to find other indicators that may/may not...
Dashboard Week, Day 3 – City of Melbourne
We have arrived at Day-3. As usual we did our presentations in the mornings and we were straight into our 3rd challenge. For Day-3 we will be looking at data for the city of Melbourne. They have a diverse set of data sets ranging from locations of artworks, footpaths,...
Dashboard Week, Day 2 – APRA Superannuation
Day 2 is upon us and we presented our dashboards this morning. As of now, we are on our second day and its dealing with APRA Superannuation data. APRA, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, is the regulatory body that oversee the superannuation industry in...
Dashboard Week, Day 1 – SpaceX API
It has begun. The week that strikes fear into every data schooler hearts, Dashboard week. And its finally out turn. So, the challenge for Day 1 is to use the Space X API to build a dashboard. Data Prep This particularly challenging as it was very difficult to get an...
Adding Dynamic Titles in Microsoft Power BI
We just had a project week with Power BI. And one of the things that the client wanted was to make use of dynamic titles. Doing dynamic titles in Power BI as opposed to Tableau, is a little more complicated. So, lets have a look at how to do it in Power BI. First,...
Grouping Years into Decades in Tableau
To make analysis of time data, especially when the time series data expands many many year, grouping the years into decades will make the analysis a little easier. Grouping using calculated formula One way to achieve this grouping would be to use a calculated formula...
There has been…a murder in SQL City
This week we will be solving a murder mystery with SQL. SQL or Structured Query Language is a programming language used to manage and manipulate data in relational database management systems. Its a very powerful tool that allows you to update, insert, join, aggregate...