Zack Hawkins
Zack studied at Swinburne University where he completed an undergrad degree in psychology and sports science, and an honours degree in health science. During his honours degree he completed a thesis which got published in 2018. Zack loves his sports, having played footy, basketball and tennis throughout his life and is a big St Kilda and LA Lakers fan. Zacks favourite food would easily be a chicken parmigiana.
Tips for Your First Placement
As of last week, I have completed my first client placement as a part of The Data School program. I thought I would write a blog to reflect on my experience as well as provide 5 tips to future Data Schoolers ahead of their first placement. Overall, I thoroughly...
How to use API’s in Alteryx
For this blog I'm going to show you how to use API's in Alteryx. API's are a powerful way to gather data from the internet and there are several websites which store 1000s of API's for anyone to access. One of my earlier blogs showcased a Star Wars Dashboard that I...
My Reflection on Learn What The Data School Learns
For this blog I wanted to share my thoughts, feedback and things that I learnt about my experience during the Learn What The Data School Learns program. This is something completely out of my comfort zone, as I have never done anything regarding teaching a group of...
My favourite Alteryx tools
With my training coming to an end this upcoming week, I have realized that I am yet to do a blog surrounding Alteryx. So, today I would like to share with you my 3 favourite tools. Starting with my third favourite… Text to columns This is a tool that takes text or...
How can Australia improve our Prosperity Index Rank
This viz set out to answer the question of how Australia can improve our Prosperity Index Rank by looking at particular areas of concern, and comparing to our New Zealand neighbours... Australia's PI rank has taken a significant dive over time, while NZ remains quite...
Which Tax Lodgement Method Should You Use?
Since 2011 there has been two ways to lodge your tax return; through an agent or self-preparing. This blog will analyse the two to help you make an informative decision on which lodgment method is best for you. Agent or Self-Preparing? Firstly, the donut chart shows...
Star Wars Character Profiles
Using the Star Wars API, I set out to create a Character Profiles Dashboard exploring a wide range of information about all our favourite characters. My task in the team was to get all of the information relating to the films and the starships. This Alteryx workflow...
Where Should I Live?
For my first Dashboard this week with the given dataset, I set out to create a visualisation that could assist me, should I be looking to move out, in answering the question where should I live? The dataset we got given was customer service requests for the City of...
Drill-Down Bar Chart
In this blog I will show you how to create a drill-down bar chart using Category and Sub-Category from sample superstore. These charts can be useful when looking at data that belong to a hierarchy, starting at the top of the hierarchy and then drilling down into the...
Building a Donut Chart in Tableau
How to Build a Donut Chart In this blog I am going to show you all how to create a donut chart in Tableau. A donut chart is a version of a pie chart with a “hole” in the middle, often displaying a total number to give the chart context. First step is to drag your...