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
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 all states and...
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...
Race Explorer – Race Timing and Race Results Service
by Grant | October 23, 2020 | Sports Analytics | 0 Comments
RACE EXPLORER, it's our exciting new Race Results service for race directors, race timers and event companies. It's a tailored service, transforming race results from traditional (and slightly boring) static lists into dynamic dashboards where the race community can...
Coffee calculator
by Grant | January 17, 2020 | Data Visualisations | 0 Comments
I stumbled across this brilliant data visualisation by Kinsey Miller while browsing the Tableau Public gallery. Given many of us are heading back to work for the new year, this Coffee Calculator data visualisation might come in handy (obviously so we can maximise our...
Timed event analytics
by Grant | November 25, 2019 | Sports Analytics | 0 Comments
UPDATE: Perceptive Data have launched RACE EXPLORER as a new service for all timed sporting events. See more at https://raceexplorer.com The sport event analytics idea came to me some time ago while searching through pages of competitor lists to find both friends and...
Small Data Projects
by Grant | October 9, 2019 | Data Analysis | 0 Comments
"Small Data", it's often overlooked in preference to its Big Data counterpart…but it’s possible to overcomplicate data analytic projects and walk past the low hanging fruit. Small Data doesn't require the collection of masses of data, storage in clusters of databases...