Janasobini Vetharuban

After graduating from Imperial College London with a Biology degree, Janasobini quickly came to realize her passion elsewhere. During her internship at a Management Consultancy, she was introduced to the world of data analytics and couldn’t turn back. As an amateur to the data world, Janasobini was in search of new knowledge.

That’s when she came across The Information Lab at a Women in Tech event, where she spent a day understanding the power of data and the impacts of data analytics software such as Tableau and Alteryx in aiding projects such as Operation Fistula. She was instantly hooked on the idea of visualizing data that allowed for data-driven decision making in a way that was both creative and interactive. After independently exploring and training in Tableau over several weeks, she joined The Information Lab to continue her journey in becoming an expert in Tableau and Alteryx.

Blog Posts

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Thu 10 Sep 2020 | Janasobini Vetharuban
Creating Customised Admin Views in Tableau to monitor Tableau Server Activity
Within the Maintenance page of Tableau Server, there are a pre-build administrative views which allow you to monitor server and site activity in different ways
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Tue 04 Aug 2020 | Janasobini Vetharuban
Tableau Tip: Adding a Dynamic Reference Line for Continuous Dates
In this blog, I will explain how you can add dynamic reference lines to a time series data which will allow the user to see the data relative to a selected reference date. Step 1: Create your desired chart I’ve created a chart using Superstore data, looking at Sales over time
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Thu 16 Jul 2020 | Janasobini Vetharuban
My experience of common practices that led to ineffective dashboard designs in Tableau
This was one of the first dashboards I ever created in Tableau. An example of multiple ineffective dashboarding practices.At the end of the day, everyone has their own way of designing dashboard, and there is not necessarily one wrong or right way
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Tue 30 Jun 2020 | Janasobini Vetharuban
Using the Show/Hide container button as a way to prompt users for additional data
Show/Hide container buttons within dashboards help to declutter the view and make it easier to understand the data. But sometimes, it is not always clear to the user that they can click the show/hide button to view more hidden data
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Wed 24 Jun 2020 | Janasobini Vetharuban
Quick Visualisations: Sparkbars with Colour
Similar to Sparkline charts, Sparkbar charts are small, lightweight charts that typically do not have axis. They’re a quick and amazing way of visualising your data, without needing the complexity of a full blown chart
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Fri 12 Jun 2020 | Janasobini Vetharuban
#easierthanithought: Tableau Keyboard Shortcuts
As I come to the end of my second week of training at The Data School, I wanted to share some keyboard shortcuts I discovered during training this week
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Tue 09 Jun 2020 | Janasobini Vetharuban
#easierthanithought : Replacing old fields with new ones
Imagine you created your dashboard, but then realised the field names were wrong so you went back to the data source to rename it
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Thu 04 Jun 2020 | Janasobini Vetharuban
Joining The Data School Virtually: Expectations vs Reality
Although our training was due to start in April, me and my fellow cohortians in DS20 have had a delayed start, due to some unforeseen circumstances (*cough cough*, corona-virus)
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