Pooja Srivastava

Pooja graduated with a Master's in business management and Master’s in Science.

During her science major which was mainly based on Bioinformatics she had worked on various genetic data. Since then, she has been quite fascinated with the data and its trend and decoding their pattern.

She had previously worked as an Analyst in a vendor supply chain management firm dealing mostly in employee and vendor data.

Her passion with data analytics drew her into The Data School where she is using Tableau and Alteryx to uncover data patterns and helping clients to make better data driven decisions.

Her first placement was with JLL where she builds, enhance, and maintain BI dashboards using Tableau and SQL for various accounts and help clients to make data driven decision. She helps business users perform UAT, training or understanding of the Dashboards and performs ad-hoc data requests from users by doing data analysis using SQL queries. She maintains the user access on Tableau Server.

Outside of her work, she loves to spend time with her family & friends and watch Netflix.

Blog Posts

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Fri 30 Sep 2022 | Pooja Srivastava
Dashboard Week: Day 5 Boy Bands
Today is our 5th day of dashboard week and last day of our training. Today task was to create a dashboard on Boy Bands data. We used https://github.com/the-pudding/data/tree/master/boybands link to get the data
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Thu 29 Sep 2022 | Pooja Srivastava
Dashboard Week: Day 4 Breaking Bad
Today is our 4rth day of dashboard week. Andy gave us task to create dashboard on his favorite TV show of all time "Breaking Bad". To get the data we are supposed to use API. Website of API: https://breakingbadapi.com/ This website has very clear direction to use API and it's free
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Wed 28 Sep 2022 | Pooja Srivastava
Dashboard Week: Day 3
This is our 3rd day of dashboard week and we are tasked to use API to get data and build an Alteryx App that allows the user to pick a date range and category and enter a postcode. The app must then render a Tableau KPI dashboard automatically. API is:  https://data.police
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Tue 27 Sep 2022 | Pooja Srivastava
Dashboard Week: Day 2 PowerBI
This is second day of dashboard week where we get tasked to create fake data on selected industry using Mockaroo, create dashboard from that fake data on PowerBI and write blog on that before 3:30PM. In short in 3.5 hour we have to create fake data and create dashboard on PowerBI and write blog
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Mon 26 Sep 2022 | Pooja Srivastava
Dashboard Week - Day1 Accessibility
This is our first day of dashboard week and we are tasked to create dashboard based on FixMyStreet data. The aim of this dashboard is to help people who may have disabilities or impairments
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Tue 30 Aug 2022 | Pooja Srivastava
What is Filter Action?
Filter Action provides user higher level of visualization interactivity. When you want to use your chart as a filter for other graphs/charts, filter action is a good option to choose. Filter actions send information between worksheets
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Tue 23 Aug 2022 | Pooja Srivastava
Dynamic Title
In this blog, we will talk about dynamic titles. So, what is dynamic title? Dynamic title is when title or part of title gets changed based on user click. Perfect example of dynamic title would be when you want to change date based on user selected date
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Wed 10 Aug 2022 | Pooja Srivastava
It's All About SQL
This is the time to talk about one of my favorite topic YASSS it's SQL. SQL (Structured Query Language) is defined as a standard programming language utilized to extract, organize, manage and manipulate data stored in relational databases
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Sat 06 Aug 2022 | Pooja Srivastava
Average vs Weighted Average
To understand weighted average first we need to understand what is average? In calculating a simple average, or arithmetic mean, all numbers are treated equally and assigned equal weight. But a weighted average assigns weights that determine in advance the relative importance of each data point i.e
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Thu 21 Jul 2022 | Pooja Srivastava
Analytics Pane
Analytics pane allow us to do advanced analysis of a view.  It includes analytics tools like reference line, trend line, constant line etc., which are easy to use by just dragging and dropping them into the view. Where is the Analytics Pane in tableau? You can find analytics pane next to data pane
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Sat 02 Jul 2022 | Pooja Srivastava
Alteryx Joins and its comparison with SQL
Join is used to combine rows from two or more tables based on a related column. In a real-world relational database, data is structured in a large number of tables and which is why, there is a constant need to join these multiple tables based on logical relationships between them
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Thu 23 Jun 2022 | Pooja Srivastava
Tableau-Dual Axis vs Shared Axis
A lot of time we get confused with dual axis and shared axis charts, today I am going to show you what is the difference between these charts, how to create them and when we can choose one over other. Dual Axis Charts: These charts are used to represent the relationship between two variables
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Tue 14 Jun 2022 | Pooja Srivastava
What is Data Architecture
Before we answer what is data architecture let’s ask ourselves what is data? Data can be anything, it can be simple or complicated and small or huge. Simple like how many times we check our twitter profile on daily basis or complicated like recording from electricity & gas meter
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