by Gregg Rimmer | Mar 28, 2019
With only a couple days before the end of my Data School training I’m feeling prematurely nostalgic. These past 4 months have been a fantastic experience in so many different ways and I thought I’d pick out my own ‘top 5’ favs. 1. A new...
by Gregg Rimmer | Mar 12, 2019
Back in week 3 of the Data School (boy does that feel like an age ago), DS12 were set the challenge of building a suite of table calculation macros. The idea was that a user would be able to select a type of calculation (eg. percent of total, rank, moving avg, etc.)...
by Gregg Rimmer | Mar 1, 2019
The final challenge of DW is an abridged one, with blogs needing to be published and Dashboards complete by 1pm to be ready for an afternoon of presentations. Andy’s weapon of choice today was a dataset containing a month’s worth of US interstate traffic...
by Gregg Rimmer | Feb 28, 2019
Now that we’re four days in, it kind of feels like we’re getting the hang of this Dashboard Week thing. Most importantly, I think we’re all getting better at scoping our work, being reasonable in our ambitions and we’re continuously getting...
by Gregg Rimmer | Feb 27, 2019
I am not a born designer I may not be design-challenged either, but creating aesthetically pleasing viz is something that doesn’t come naturally to me. I sense that because of this I will never produce a ‘work-of-art’ viz with true ‘wow’...
