by Ellen Blackburn | Nov 19, 2018
Radar (or spider) charts can be an effective way to show certain types of data. However, they can also make comparison a little difficult; this blog by Graham Odds details why radar charts aren’t always the best choice. Nonetheless, I’ve seen a few on...
by Ellen Blackburn | Nov 2, 2018
On the final day of dashboard week, we got our data from NASA. Given the shorter time constraint, the data was easy to retrieve; requiring only a short workflow as to decipher the data from the API. To get some more information, I also added in the continents from a...
by Ellen Blackburn | Nov 1, 2018
Today we used data concerning the availability of bikes and docking stations from COORD. However, as we were back in 2018.3, the benefits of nice software was balanced out with a bit of a nightmare with trying to get the data (involving an API and an analytic app, see...
by Ellen Blackburn | Oct 31, 2018
As Andy is either unable or unwilling to gauge when a joke is no longer amusing, today we used Tableau version 8. This joy was only heightened further by the use of traffic data from the Department of Transport. Alteryx I downloaded the data concerning each local...
by Ellen Blackburn | Oct 30, 2018
Today we were instructed to use The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for our data. Andy told us to get the data at a weather station level and look at daily summaries. He then said the task “seemed simple” in a mocking tone, before promptly...
