Bianca Ng

Now in her final placement of the second cohort of Data School New York, Bianca is defining her visual style and analyzing with flair, with Tableau and Alteryx! She's a co-leader of the Data + Women NYC user group and is active in the online data community. For the past year, she's been placed at Vanguard as a data analytics consultant. She has spearheaded numerous projects aimed at enhancing data visualization, dashboard design, and analytics efficiency across multiple departments. One of Bianca's notable achievements includes developing comprehensive documentation, including corporate style guides and visualization optimization handbooks.

Her expertise extends to reviving and optimizing defunct dashboards, augmenting their use cases. Recognized for her meticulous attention to detail and receptiveness to feedback, Bianca applied best practices and design principles to create intuitive dashboards that significantly improved time to insight and rated higher in UX design principles when compared to existing analytics products.

Bianca has supported a Tableau Cloud migration and coordinated efforts to facilitate a smooth transition, demonstrating adaptability and problem-solving skills. She's implemented resilience frameworks to enhance data integrity and reliability, addressed data quality issues, and provided ad-hoc training sessions to contribute to analytics modernization initiatives.

Prior to the Data School, Bianca earned a B.A. in Mathematics and has experience on data entry teams in nonprofit organizations. Her first (coding) language was Excel and she waited patiently for years for the =LAMBDA function to be out of beta. She joined the first cohort of the Data Analyst Training Accelerator (thanks to the partnership between Tech Talent Pipeline/Fullstack Academy), adding SQL, Python, and Tableau to her toolkit.

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Fri 23 Feb 2024 | Bianca Ng
Alteryx Cloud vs. Trifacta Classic
Lately I’ve been exploring Alteryx Designer Cloud, the cloud analytics platform offering from Alteryx, similar to Alteryx Designer Desktop. Though as I learned more about Cloud, I discovered it’s not quite so similar
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Tue 14 Feb 2023 | Bianca Ng
Parsing & Data Prep (3/3) - A Difficult Alteryx Weekly Challenge
This is the last blog post in which I cover Parsing & Data Prep Alteryx Challenges! Previous posts were on basic and intermediate challenges. I'll be walking through my take on Challenge #188, a Difficult-level parsing and data preparation challenge
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Tue 14 Feb 2023 | Bianca Ng
Parsing & Data Prep (2/3) - Intermediate Alteryx Weekly Challenges
I started with writing about basic challenges in my previous blog post; this post will focus on intermediate parsing & data prep Alteryx challenges: #36 and #59. These are both Intermediate challenges
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Mon 13 Feb 2023 | Bianca Ng
Parsing & Data Prep (1/3) - Basic Alteryx Weekly Challenges
Next up on the DSNY Channel is Kim Parse-able! As mentioned in my blog post about passing the Alteryx Advanced exam, I completed only 4 challenges in preparation for the exam (#22, #36, #59, #211) (despite recommending many more in my blog post 😛)
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Tue 07 Feb 2023 | Bianca Ng
Taking the Alteryx Designer Advanced Certification Exam
Part of my goals while on bench was to prepare for and take the Alteryx Designer Advanced Certification exam. My intention was to take the exam this week - only to get an idea of what topics I needed to study up on, then take it “for real” next week
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Thu 02 Feb 2023 | Bianca Ng
Go Track Yourself
During 17 weeks of training in the Data School, progress can be measured by the Alteryx tools you’ve learned to use, or the Tableau charts you now know how to build; however it’s not something we explicitly measure
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Tue 31 Jan 2023 | Bianca Ng
Is your parameter running?
Then you’d better go catch it! Understanding how parameters can be used will increase interactivity, so as follows are a few examples. 1. Using Parameters as a Visible Component of your Chart   1a. Top N, Dynamic Reference Line   1b. Dynamic buffer zone (my blog post on that) 2
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Tue 31 Jan 2023 | Bianca Ng
Now you see it... (Dynamic Zone Visibility)
I’ve used Dynamic Zone Visibility for small bits of client projects, but on Day 5 of Dashboard Week (my blog post on that), I made my Survivor “navigation” using only dynamic zone visibility
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Tue 31 Jan 2023 | Bianca Ng
A Chart from Week 2 to Bench Day 2
A project I made in week 2 of DSNY heavily relied on parameters to swap charts out. Today, on Bench Day 2, I’ll be incorporating a technique I learned somewhere along the way - measure/dimension swapping within a single calculated field
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Tue 31 Jan 2023 | Bianca Ng
Why must we BUFFER() in this world
DSNY2 did our spatial lessons just about two months ago, and that’s when we made points and lines. We also learned a third function, BUFFER(), that takes in a point, distance, and unit. It draws a circle around that point, using distance as the radius
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Mon 30 Jan 2023 | Bianca Ng
Dashboard Week Day 5 - I WILL SURVIVE 🎵
Today’s dashboard was on Survivor, which was what DSNY3 used in their final applications. I sure hope they aren’t judging us too hard! We were given a combined dataset, and also the unjoined data, and we were permitted to simply use the first
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Thu 26 Jan 2023 | Bianca Ng
Dashboard Week Day 4 - American Candy Survey Data 🍭
Today’s dashboard is using American Candy Survey data (2014 - 2017) conducted by Science Creative Quarterly (SCQ), which immediately indicated to me that there was plenty of restructuring to do. We’ve spent two days of training with Sam working with survey data before, so we were well prepared
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Wed 25 Jan 2023 | Bianca Ng
Dashboard Week Day 3 - Rick and Morty API
Alternative Blog Title: Beginning of the End, Day 3 🔥🔥🔥 For day 3 of Dashboard Week, we used the Rick and Morty API. I am familiar with the show, but had missed the day of training spent on APIs, so Liam's blog post about this specific API was very helpful. HERE'S THE DASHBOARD
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Tue 24 Jan 2023 | Bianca Ng
Dashboard Week Day 2 - Communicating with Your Audience
DSNY2 was spared a day of Dashboard Week (though not the accompanying blog post…) and discussed effective data communication with coaches Ann and Michael. One aspect of our day was focused on engaging with your audience, something that is crucial as consultants
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Tue 24 Jan 2023 | Bianca Ng
Dashboard Week Day 1 - THE BEGINNING OF THE END, PART 1 🔥
It’s the last week of training for DSNY2 which means DASHBOARD WEEK. Day 1’s theme is Accessibility, using the Fix my Street Glasgow dataset. Dashboards should be created with the broadest set of users in mind and be usable by people with motor and/or visual disabilities. HERE’S MY DASHBOARD
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Fri 30 Dec 2022 | Bianca Ng
remember to have FUN in Tableau!
As 2022 comes to an end, I’d like to end with a blog post reflecting on how I’ve gotten here. At the beginning of this year, I applied to the Data Analyst Training Accelerator (DATA), a program I’d applied to in past years. This year, I got in
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Thu 15 Dec 2022 | Bianca Ng
LOL: LODs of Love
What is Level of Detail (LOD)? The lowest level of detail is a single row of your data and is not aggregated at all. In Tableau, the level of detail determines the number of marks in the view
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Mon 28 Nov 2022 | Bianca Ng
Alternatives to a Stacked Bar
DSNY2 began our client projects recently, and one of my charts drew ire (rightfully so). Though I originally had misgivings about it, I proceeded to utilize a stacked bar chart. Today, I’ll cover my redemption ch(arc)t. Goal: To show totals and compare between categories
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Mon 14 Nov 2022 | Bianca Ng
Reviz-iting my Application Viz
Every data schooler has gone through the same training process, and DSNY2 is no different. One project we’ve all done is to re-vizit our original application viz
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Wed 26 Oct 2022 | Bianca Ng
Taking the Alteryx Designer Core Certification Exam
DSNY2 took our Alteryx Designer Core Certifications at the end of week 3 on 10/21/22 - here's what I took away from it
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Tue 25 Oct 2022 | Bianca Ng
ROW_NUMBER() AND RANK() from SQL in Alteryx
DSNY2 just finished week 3 by taking the Alteryx Designer Core Certification Exam, so it’s a good time to review one of the challenges I enjoyed. Alteryx Weekly Challenge #122: Think Like a CSE..
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Thu 13 Oct 2022 | Bianca Ng
Waffling About Squirrels 🐿️
Happy first two weeks of the Data School! For today’s blog, I’m going to go over a prominent part of my application: a waffle chart with squirrels. All of DSNY2’s applications are here: https://www.thedataschool.co
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