Sundus Jamaal

Sundus Graduated from the University of Roehampton with a BSc degree in Accounting. Her interest in data analytics began at university where she encountered a data analytics module.

Although this sparked her initial interest, Sundus decided to pursue a career in finance as an account manager. Whilst there she fell in love with consulting and used financial data to support her finding and help clients. This was where she rekindled her interest and came across the data school.

In her spare time, Sundus likes to try new things and attends the odd workshop. She also likes keeping fit and likes to do activities with her friends.

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Fri 28 Oct 2022 | Sundus Jamaal
Dashboard Week: Final: Day 4
Todays task was to look through restaurant chain data. The data was clean and so I felt that this helped me a lot in my time management and cut out a lot of the work
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Thu 27 Oct 2022 | Sundus Jamaal
Using First and Last for Line ends
Step 1: Create your line chart Step 2: Create your calculation Step 3: Add to your rows and dual axis Final Look
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Thu 27 Oct 2022 | Sundus Jamaal
Switch Between dates
This blog is a tutorial showing you how to Switch between two date ranges. E.g from a monthly view to click into a have a daily view. Step 1: Create a custom dates for the date ranges you want Step 2: Create a set on the date that you want to drill into
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Thu 27 Oct 2022 | Sundus Jamaal
Client Projects
After going through all the clients projects, I have come out the other end with a few insights and tips that I wish I had know earlier
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Thu 27 Oct 2022 | Sundus Jamaal
Dashboard Week: Day 3
Todays Task was similar to yesterdays. It consisted of us being given data about Museums and the task was to find some insights to present at the end of the day. I plan my day well and took on the tips i learnt from yesterday
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Wed 26 Oct 2022 | Sundus Jamaal
Dashboard Week: Day 2
The task at hand today was to choose some tables from a wine dataset, clean it and get as much insight from it as possible and if there was time left at the end, to build a dashboard
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Tue 25 Oct 2022 | Sundus Jamaal
Alteryx Core exam tips
What does it take to pass the Alteryx exam? The Alteryx exam is about timing and practice. Here's a few tips i found useful to help me prep and pass the exam. Step 1: To revise I used the tool tip index and the learning path videos with a particular focus on trying the challenges
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Tue 25 Oct 2022 | Sundus Jamaal
Circle Time Line Chart
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Tue 25 Oct 2022 | Sundus Jamaal
Dashboard Week: Day 1- Accessibility
Today's task was to create a dashboard with accessibility in mind. We received a dataset from the Glasgow City Council, with information about reported potholes and pavement/footpaths issues
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Wed 21 Sep 2022 | Sundus Jamaal
Standard Deviation: Building Dynamic Charts That Spark Exploration
Standard deviation chart is a good tool to explore your data and gain insights about outliers in your data. The standard deviations show how far a data point is away from the mean (average) and allows you to create segway's for further analysis
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Mon 22 Aug 2022 | Sundus Jamaal
How to Pivot from Rows to Columns in Tableau Prep
Data needs to be organized before being analyzed in Tableau. There should be just one distinct meaning for each column. When your data tables are too tall and narrow to be adequately analyzed, then you would need to  pivot some rows of data to columns. This allows you to break things down
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Thu 25 Aug 2022 | Sundus Jamaal
How to use the Lookup Function in Tableau
The lookup function is one of many table calculations in tableau. Table calculation functions allow you to perform computations on values in a table. Allowing you to calculate what's on your current chart and not at the row level in you data source
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Wed 27 Jul 2022 | Sundus Jamaal
Permissions on Server
When using tableau server to upload a site and create folders for different teams in a company. You may want to set permissions on those folders to allow a select few to act as creators or explorers & publishers or viewers
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Mon 25 Jul 2022 | Sundus Jamaal
Is your order Late?
You can use the Datediff function for many things but during week 4 we used it to figure out if orders were late
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Thu 21 Jul 2022 | Sundus Jamaal
Standard Macro's
What are Macros? Macros are workflows or combinations of tools that are built into one tool that run specific tasks. They can be saved into your tool bar and inserted into other workflows. One of the most commonly used tools that is a macro is the data cleansing tool
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Thu 14 Jul 2022 | Sundus Jamaal
Colour Quadrants
This blog post is aimed to help you create a 4- colour quadrant using the sample superstore data. You will need to begin by first creating a scatter graph and add reference lines for both axis
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Tue 12 Jul 2022 | Sundus Jamaal
Default Properties for Dimensions
When initially using fields in tableau they are initially displayed on their default settings. If you are aiming to use a field multiple times across different worksheets, it will save you time to alter these fields properties to apply these changes easily as you build your viz
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Thu 07 Jul 2022 | Sundus Jamaal
Experiencing Week 1
The first week at a new job can be very daunting and overwhelming. However, the information lab eases you into the training and makes it a much smoother transition. Everyone is very welcoming and friendly and your first week is very informative
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