Lorraine Ferrusi

From the grasslands of South Africa to the lush woods of New York, Lorraine’s journey includes more than just changes in location. Since graduating from university, with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, she has worked in a variety of fields including hospitality, child care, inventory control, and manufacturing. Lorraine leverages her experience in various environments, and working with people from all walks of life to deliver high quality work. 

With a love for puzzle solving and learning new skills, Lorraine turned to data analytics. She is working on her master’s degree which focuses on the individual parts of the data life cycle and includes learning programming languages like Python, R, and SQL. Lorraine now works as a Tableau/Alteryx consultant for the Information Lab in New York and after work you can find her lost in the pages of a book or exploring the levels of a video game. 

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Tue 09 Jul 2024 | Lorraine Ferrusi
How to create a Plum Pudding Chart in Tableau
A plum pudding is a traditional British dessert usually served on Christmas dinner. It's a dome shaped cake-like sweet desert with fruit pieces on the inside. In the early 1900 the plum pudding made its way into science when it was proposed as a model for the atom
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Fri 29 Mar 2024 | Lorraine Ferrusi
Dashboard Week Day 5
This is it. This is how it ends. A whole week of dashboard creation from start to finish. A whole week of daily challenges that gave us a variety of things to figure out and learn
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Thu 28 Mar 2024 | Lorraine Ferrusi
Dashboard Week Day 4
The morning has dawned with grey skies in anticipation of the fourth day of dashboard week where we’ll be looking into squirrel data. Specifically the Eastern grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) in New York City
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Wed 27 Mar 2024 | Lorraine Ferrusi
Dashboard Week Day 3
Dashboard Week Day 3: Another day, another dashboard! Today we're looking at yellow taxi ride trip information from the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission (or TLC for short). This agency is for licensing and regulating the yellow taxi cabs, as well as other vehicle types
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Tue 26 Mar 2024 | Lorraine Ferrusi
Dashboard Week Day 2
Day 2 of dashboard week is upon us and today we were tasked to explore the UNICEF website and find a data source to create an informative dashboard that will raise awareness about the issue
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Wed 13 Mar 2024 | Lorraine Ferrusi
Alteryx Challenges #backtothebasics
Sometimes it's good to take a step back and practice the fundamentals. For this week I decided to go back to an earlier Alteryx Challenge that is labeled as 'Foundation'. Challenge 169 focuses on understanding how to import a text file and counting entries to find the highest value
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Wed 13 Dec 2023 | Lorraine Ferrusi
#IntotheArchives Week 2 2017
For week 2 , we're creating a line chart to show sales over time and a bar chart to show the best performing categories based on their sales. You'll also notice that the bar chart colour density corresponds with profit - more profit means the bar will be darker
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Wed 07 Feb 2024 | Lorraine Ferrusi
Mapping Congressional Districts
Tableau has this amazing functionality where it will build maps for you if you give it the right information. The Tableau map server already has data about the longitude and latitude values for multiple different geographic roles which you can read more about here: https://help.tableau
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Wed 13 Dec 2023 | Lorraine Ferrusi
#IntotheArchives Week 1 2017
For the first week, the challenge was to recreate a visualization using Tableau's Superstore Sample Data to show year-over-year purchase frequencies. The challenge had some specific things to figure out
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Sun 10 Dec 2023 | Lorraine Ferrusi
#IntoTheArchives Workout Wednesday
Your journey into Tableau has kicked off - you've watched some videos, put some basic graphs together, played around with dashboards and stories..
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Thu 07 Dec 2023 | Lorraine Ferrusi
Take a Byte of that
Save space. Keep it compact. Make it small. It wouldn't be the first time you have to be aware of the space something takes up. In the data world, more space means more computing power which might lead to delays and lengthy run times..
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