DS27 Training Blog - Week 13

This week DS27 had our dashboard week, which is a week long dashboarding challenge. Each day the team are given a dataset which we have only around 4 hours to prep, visualise and blog about. This week was cut slightly short for us due to the Christmas bank holidays so we only had Wednesday to Friday.

Wednesday: We were slightly delayed getting started this week due to an error posting the data. However Carl came to the rescue and gave us an interesting data set on salmon and trout fisheries throughout the UK. The team produced impressive views and dashboards considering the time we had.

This was the Dashboard week over for me as I took some annual leave before New year.

Thursday: I'm reliably informed by my colleagues that Thursday's data set was more topical and slightly more tricky to deal with too. The dataset, on the demographics of smokers, came from the National Cancer Institute in a tricky format that the team hadn't seen before. Nonetheless a bit of prep in Alteryx allowed the team to create some great looking visualisations.

Friday: The final day of dashboard week introduced a new challenge - the time for completion was only 2 hours. The task was to visualise the EU referendum results. The focus more on design for today as the dataset was fairly clean. Again given the time allowed for the data the team produced fantastic work.

Check out what DS27 produced for Dashboard week by filtering to us on https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/blog and looking for posts titled 'Dashboard Week'.

Author:
Henry Coley-Fisher
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