Laine Caruzca

Laine Caruzca

After spending 3 months in rural Bangladesh, she discovered Tableau and became fascinated by its ability to quickly answer questions to global problems using data. Laine recently graduated in International Relations, fuelled by her curiosity to understand war, peace and international development.

Whilst at university, Laine wrote and produced an original musical, developing her love for storytelling and bringing together people with the same passion. She likes working in teams, for example, she participated in a dance competition against other universities, coming first place. Laine loves music and in her spare time she likes to sing in the shower.
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Sun 04 Nov 2018 | Laine Caruzca
API Pagination in Alteryx
API Pagination in Alteryx One really cool thing that I learnt a few weeks ago is pagination. This is especially useful when you get data through an API using Alteryx. Pagination is the process of fetching data and looping this over until everything that you need has been acquired
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Sat 18 Aug 2018 | Laine Caruzca
Dashboard Week Day 5: Toilets toilets toilets
Yesterday was the last day of dashboard week. I was relieved but also a little sad. Dashboard week was not as bad as I thought it would be. It was definitely challenging, but overall really satisfying to see all of our achievements this week
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Thu 16 Aug 2018 | Laine Caruzca
Dashboard Week Day 4: Major League Baseball
For today’s challenge, we needed to get 147 years worth of data about the Major League Baseball, MLB. The biggest challenge in the data preparation was to obtain the headers for each table, which represented each year/season and to join this onto the data
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Wed 15 Aug 2018 | Laine Caruzca
Dashboard Week Day 3: Food Standards Agency
Today, we had the difficult task of obtaining data from the Food Standards Agency through an API. We used an XML parse, which is a tool that I had never used before
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Tue 14 Aug 2018 | Laine Caruzca
Dashboard Day 2: Survey Data
For dashboard week’s 2nd day challenge, we needed to download data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), and to create a viz from it. This is what the part of the website that we needed to web scrape look like. The Alteryx Part Today’s challenge felt like a cubic puzzle
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Mon 13 Aug 2018 | Laine Caruzca
Dashboard Week Day 1: DNA charts
Dashboard Week 1: DNA charts Today was the first day of dashboard week and the first lesson I have learnt so far is TEAMWORK. We did very well in getting the data through web scraping in Alteryx and that was all because of teamwork
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Sun 22 Jul 2018 | Laine Caruzca
What does Andy Kriebel's commute look like? - How to create different views in evenly distributed squares
A few days ago, we had a great class from Andy on how to create this very cool view. This was the desired result: Each box shows a specific bike or run route made by Andy and one even shows a 4 hour run for his commute into work (he’s pretty crazy like that)
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Sun 08 Jul 2018 | Laine Caruzca
Calculating a variable based on business hours in Alteryx
Have you ever been asked to calculate something based on business or working hours? My guess is that you have. These things are pretty common, especially when working with clients that want to assess their productivity, sales, costs or pretty much anything else that involves working hours
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Sat 30 Jun 2018 | Laine Caruzca
Alteryx: Dealing with multiple API’s
This week, our project involved linking to an API, cleaning the data in Alteryx and using Alteryx to launch this dataset into a dashboard we created in Tableau all within an Alteryx App. This blog post will talk about how to use two API’s by linking them together
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Mon 25 Jun 2018 | Laine Caruzca
Alteryx: Spatial Shortcuts, measuring distances and drawing poly lines
In Alteryx, you can do some very cool spatial analysis. In this example, I will be talking about how to find distances between two points and how to draw a line between them. First, I will show you the long way. Then, I will then show you the shortcut
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Fri 22 Jun 2018 | Laine Caruzca
Friday Project: Reflective Blog
Today was yet another ‘Friday Project’. After a brilliant session by Anna Noble on blogging, we were given a new dataset to work with for the day. Today, we were given the TFL data on bike journeys and bike stations
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Thu 21 Jun 2018 | Laine Caruzca
Keep ‘em moving (average)
Today’s tableau tip will talk about how to calculate moving averages and other things you might want to do with it. Moving averages are useful for finding any trends/patterns in your data. This is especially useful when dealing with information with seasonality or with data that have lots of peaks
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Thu 21 Jun 2018 | Laine Caruzca
Tableau Top Tip: Replacing old fields with new ones in just a few clicks
Let’s say you have created a complicated chart using lots of calculated fields. You then realise that you’ve made a mistake on one of the fields
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Tue 19 Jun 2018 | Laine Caruzca
Tableau Top Tips: Dual axis, infinity and beyond
Most of you have probably seen a chart or a data visualisation with overlapping data, piled one on top of each other. These are made using a dual axis on Tableau. The idea behind a dual axis is to put two different graphs on the same view to allow you to compare two measures together
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Tue 19 Jun 2018 | Laine Caruzca
Tableau Top Tips: One click away
These tableau tips are designed to make things faster when you’re using Tableau, or simply to learn how to do something you’ve always done in a new (and hopefully) better way
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Mon 18 Jun 2018 | Laine Caruzca
Supplementing a viz with a 2nd data set
In this week’s Friday project, we were challenged to use our newly acquired knowledge of Alteryx to supplement our application viz with a new data set. My original data set looked at the Global Peace Index (GPI) and I wanted to supplement this with information on refugee inflows
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Sun 17 Jun 2018 | Laine Caruzca
How to get latitude and longitude values from Tableau
How to get latitude and longitude values from Tableau A new trick I learn this week is how to get the latitude and longitude values from Tableau. This is a useful tool for when you might want to join/union two data sets by country in Alteryx, but the country names are in various formats. 1
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Tue 12 Jun 2018 | Laine Caruzca
First steps with alteryx
First Steps with Alteryx Today I had my first encounter with Alteryx, with the help of Alteryx Ace, Chris Love. It consisted mainly of introducing DS9 to the basic functions of Alteryx and its importance
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Tue 12 Jun 2018 | Laine Caruzca
What’s so great about Null Island?
Today was my first day of training at the Data School. It felt like it was the first day of school all over again, worrying about whether I would make friends or not, whether I could cope up with all the work or whether I would inevitably fail
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