Seffana Mohamed-Ajaz

Seffana is a recent graduate from the University of Warwick with a BSc in Systems Engineering. As much as she enjoyed studying engineering, she decided that she did not want to pursue a career in it.

While certain that engineering was no longer her calling, Seffana had no idea what to do! Which also meant that she was open to anything, particularly consulting. Why consulting? Simply because that was what a typical STEM graduate tends to steer towards if they no longer want to pursue their STEM degree-related careers, if not that then join a bank.

While looking for consulting roles, Seffana stumbled across The Information Lab and was considerably intrigued by their emphasis on wanting anyone that was simply passionate about data and visual analytics and did not need any prior experience required. This was exactly what Seffana needed! While she had no relevant experience beforehand, Seffana had an eagerness to continue learning and venture into something new. Never really knowing much about data analytics previously and under the assumption that it was exclusively for people with coding experience, Seffana downloaded Tableau with no expectations. After downloading Tableau and playing around with a dataset on The Academy Awards, she soon fell in love with it.

Seffana is a massive film’s buff (hence, choosing The Academy Awards dataset) and in her spare time she loves hanging out with her friends.

Blog Posts

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Sat 23 Mar 2019 | Seffana Mohamed-Ajaz
TABLEAU: Dynamic Tooltips using Table Calculations and Set Actions
A recent feature that has been released in Tableau is Set Actions which allows users to drill down their data investigation while maximising the space the chart is using
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Fri 01 Mar 2019 | Seffana Mohamed-Ajaz
DS12's Dashboard Week, Day 5
What do you do when your date columns are split into three different columns? In other words, you have three columns: Year, Month, Day. To put them together in Tableau (or Prep), create a calculated field and write as seen in Image 1. Image 1: Creating a date by joining the the three columns
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Thu 28 Feb 2019 | Seffana Mohamed-Ajaz
DS12's Dashboard Week, Day 4
This was definitely one of the most challenging dashboard days this week. Kriebel had tasked us to investigate droughts in the states and we had to collect the data using API
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Wed 27 Feb 2019 | Seffana Mohamed-Ajaz
DS12's Dashboard Week, Day 3
Head Coach Kriebel has tasked DS12 to investigate City of New Orleans calls, and we’re to use Microsoft Power BI. No Tableau! I’ll be honest, I am not a big fan of Power BI
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Tue 26 Feb 2019 | Seffana Mohamed-Ajaz
DS12'S Dashoard Week, Day 2
Second assignment: retrieve all the data for every year for all participants in the London Marathon using the below website. https://www.virginmoneylondonmarathon
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Mon 25 Feb 2019 | Seffana Mohamed-Ajaz
DS12's Dashboard Week, Day 1
Head Coach Andy set DS12 Star Wars as our theme for our first dashboard in dashboard week. As someone who is totally unfamiliar with Star Wars (oooops), I decided to tackle the film section of the API. We have been granted more time today than we will for the rest of the week
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Mon 25 Feb 2019 | Seffana Mohamed-Ajaz
Dynamic Chart Titles in Tableau
There are plenty of times in Tableau where I have charts that would change due to dashboard interactivity via filter or highlight, and etc
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Sun 17 Feb 2019 | Seffana Mohamed-Ajaz
Dynamic Reference Lines
There are certain times where I would like to see a chart in a general overview and then drill down in the same space. I am going to walk you through how to make a dynamic reference line, have reference only appear on a certain condition
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Thu 31 Jan 2019 | Seffana Mohamed-Ajaz
IMPOSTER SYNDROME SUCKS
Imposter Syndrome What is it? It’s an uncomfortable experience and includes feeling as though you don’t belong with your peers in your workplace; or you’re undeserving of any achievements and accomplishments
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Sun 20 Jan 2019 | Seffana Mohamed-Ajaz
My Project Manager Experience
PROJECT MANAGER (PM) EXPERIENCE AND TIPS FOR FUTURE DATA SCHOOLERS On my 7th week at the Data School, I was Project Manager for DS12. It was DS12’s second client project for MOO Business Services (MBS). The total time that DS12 were given during that week for this project was 15 hours
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Tue 08 Jan 2019 | Seffana Mohamed-Ajaz
Colour Conditions in Tableau
For this topic, I will be using the Makeover Monday ’19 Week 1 [https://data.world/makeovermonday/2019w1] NHL dataset. I had produced a very simple dashboard that compares the Home Attendance and Road Attendance for every NHL team, filtering by each season
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Mon 24 Dec 2018 | Seffana Mohamed-Ajaz
How to make a Dynamic Tooltip
Dynamic Tooltips For this topic I am looking into the average adjusted inflation gross versus budget for each of the Disney Renaissance films. Link to [https://data.world/kgarrett/disney-character-success-00-16/workspace/file?filename=disney_movies_total_gross.csv] dataset
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Wed 12 Dec 2018 | Seffana Mohamed-Ajaz
How to make a butterfly chart using Tableau
How to make butterfly chart using Tableau I am looking into the average adjusted inflation gross versus budget for each of the Disney Renaissance films. I thought the best way for me to compare the two was by doing a butterfly chart on Tableau. Link to [https://data
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Thu 06 Dec 2018 | Seffana Mohamed-Ajaz
Data School Application
Hi! I have recently joined the DS12 cohort this week. The one thing I really wished I had available when I was applying back in September was at least a description of what someone who’d been in my shoes had previously experienced with their Data School application
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