Interactive Data Storytelling with a Grunge Twist
by Grant | August 15, 2025 | Data Storytelling, Data Visualisations | 0 Comments
A Grunge Music Dashboard That Hits All the Right Notes Grunge wasn’t just music—it was a movement. So we built a dashboard that doesn’t just show the top grunge albums of the 1990s… it lets you experience them. This interactive Tableau visualisation takes you back to...
Turning Waste Data into Insight: How Colac Otway Shire Built a Smarter Dashboard for Local Government Waste Analytics
by Grant | August 15, 2025 | Data Analysis, Data Visualisations, Local Government | 0 Comments
A different kind of waste processing - turning waste data into information through interactive dashboards Waste data can be complex. For councils, contractors, and internal teams alike, it often arrives in fragmented formats and requires a good deal of effort before...
Australian Electricity Generation Dashboard – Now Updated for 2024
by Grant | July 8, 2025 | Data Analysis, Data Visualisations, Energy Analytics | 0 Comments
An interactive exploration of electricity generation It’s been a while, but we’ve finally updated our Electricity Generation in Australia Dashboard with the latest data for 2024. This interactive Tableau dashboard explores electricity generation quantities and trends...
How Ballarat Community Health is Building Internal Data Skills with Power BI
by Grant | June 27, 2025 | Data Literacy | 0 Comments
A practical and people-focused approach to growing data confidence across teams Earlier this month, we had the pleasure of delivering two Power BI workshops with the dedicated staff at Ballarat Community Health (BCH) — one Essentials, and one Intermediate session —...
AFL National Draft – A Mid-Term Review
by Grant | November 17, 2023 | Data Visualisations, Sports Analytics | 0 Comments
After digesting the post analysis of the AFL trade period, where each club is ranked on its trading performance, usually on the very day the trades have completed, I found myself considering that this was not an overly useful analysis. Invariably, I find the...
Australian Electricity Data Dashboard
by Grant | February 17, 2023 | Data Analysis, Data Visualisations, Energy Analytics | 0 Comments
*Now updated for 2024* The Australian Electricity Dashboard data is sourced from energy.gov.au, which provides comprehensive and authoritative electricity data for Australia. The 2021 calendar year data is the most recent release and provides generation estimates for...
Building to the Flag
by Grant | May 25, 2021 | Data Analysis, Data Visualisations, Sports Analytics | 0 Comments
VIZ UPDATE: Now includes Melbourne's 2021 premiership. Do you think your team is five years from a flag? Recent history shows you'll need to have about half of your premiership team already listed...and they'll need to be pretty good players. This interactive...
From Excel to Tableau
by Grant | May 3, 2021 | Data Analysis, Data Literacy | 0 Comments
The Excel data cruncher Perhaps just like you, I'm an Excel data cruncher. I think Excel is great for collating and managing data, and as a data visualiser, I use it regularly for preparing small and static data sets. So why do we need to ponder a move from Excel to...
Tableau – Customising the Y-axis on a Line Chart
by Grant | October 29, 2020 | Data Visualisations | 0 Comments
Periodically in Tableau, the 'edit axis' option doesn't provide the level of control required to communicate the trend of your line chart. When we 'include zero' on the chart, we end up with too much white space under our chart, making the trend hard to conceptualise....
Melbourne Tableau User Group
by Grant | October 29, 2020 | Data Literacy | 0 Comments
It was a privilege to present to the Melbourne Tableau User Group on aspects of data literacy at our recent online meetup on September the 30th. Tableau User Groups are a great way to connect with other members of the data community, particularly those who are...