Our Work in Action

Client Type: Industry Association – Road Transport Sector

Location: Sandringham, Melbourne, Victoria

Challenge: Modernise how industry data is accessed and analysed, moving beyond static reports to provide real-time insights on truck and trailer registrations across Australia.

What we did:

• Migrated ARTSA-i’s quarterly market data from PDFs and Excel to an interactive, secure Tableau Cloud environment

• Designed a suite of dashboards for vehicle registration trends, market segmentation, and geographic hotspots

• Ensured robust security for sensitive member data through fine-grained Tableau Cloud access permissions

• Trained ARTSA-i staff to perform their own analytics and research within Tableau

Outcome:

ARTSA-i and its members — including some of Australia’s leading vehicle manufacturers — now access live, secure Tableau dashboards that support evidence-based planning and policy. The transformation has positioned ARTSA-i as a data leader in the transport sector.

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Client Type: Manufacturing – Heavy vehicle towing components

Location: Hallam, Melbourne, Victoria

Challenge: Enable customers to understand safe load limits for towing configurations — a critical factor in road safety and regulatory compliance.

What we did:

• Developed dynamic Tableau visualisations showing truck and trailer towing capacities, tailored to each customer’s vehicle setup

• Extracted and transformed data from Bartlett’s internal rating system

• Created market research tools and sales distribution dashboards to support internal decision-making

• Delivered supporting documentation and client training to ensure adoption and accuracy

Outcome:

Bartlett now provides its clients with clear, customised safety analytics that communicate allowable towing capacities at a glance. Internally, the company leverages visual dashboards for market research and national sales strategy — all powered by an ongoing data partnership.

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Client Type: Climate Science & Advisory – Government and Policy Engagement

Location: Australia (Global Reach)

Challenge: Present complex climate model outputs and emissions pathway scenarios in a way that is interactive, transparent, and accessible for decision-makers, analysts, and stakeholders

What we did:

• Designed Tableau dashboards to visualise and explore modelled climate scenarios, enabling users to contrast different emissions pathways, baseline years, and model assumptions

• Developed benchmarking functionality for comparing countries and regions on climate risk and transition indicators

• Created parameter-driven tools to allow scenario testing, illustrating how changes in input assumptions affect climate impact projections

• Translated complex scientific data into intuitive visuals aligned with IPCC modelling frameworks

Outcome:

The Tableau dashboards developed by Perceptive Data provided Climate Resource with a powerful, intuitive way to explore and communicate their climate modelling outputs. Users can benchmark countries and regions, select baseline years, and compare emissions scenarios side-by-side — all within a clear, interactive visual framework. These dashboards enable deeper engagement with complex data and support evidence-based conversations with policymakers, analysts, and corporate stakeholders.

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Client Type: National Building Supplies Cooperative

Location: Notting Hill, Melbourne

Challenge: Replace a limited legacy reporting system with a modern, automated analytics solution that could support both internal decision-making and service to members and suppliers

What we did:

• Designed and deployed a comprehensive Tableau dashboard suite to provide insights across operational, sales, and supplier data

• Replaced an outdated reporting platform with a scalable Tableau Cloud solution for secure, always-available access

• Developed and implemented a custom data engineering pipeline, automating the extraction of data from Natbuild’s internal databases

• Scheduled nightly automated loads into Tableau Cloud, ensuring up-to-date reporting without manual intervention

• Utilised Tableau Prep to clean, streamline, and reshape data flows before dashboard consumption

• Delivered staff training and onboarding to ensure confident adoption and self-service capability

Outcome:

Natbuild now operates a powerful, low-maintenance Tableau Cloud environment that delivers timely, accurate insights for internal stakeholders and external partners. Automated data pipelines and well-designed dashboards provide the foundation for informed decisions and efficient support across the cooperative’s network.

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Client Type: Independent research body

Location: Sydney, NSW

Challenge: Enable public access to complex legal assistance data across every LGA and other geographies across Australia.

What we did:

• Designed dashboards to integrate with the client’s new style guide

• Developed three sophisticated Tableau dashboards with tabbed interactive spatial views

• Created geographic specific filters and navigation

Outcome:
Powerful tools for legal service planning and policy, accessed publicly and regularly maintained.

Community Profiles Dashboard

NLAS Dashboard

Criminal Finalisations Dashboard

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Client Type: Independent research body

Location: Colac, Victoria.

Challenge: Enable public access to complex legal assistance data across every LGA and other geographies across Australia.

What we did:

• Designed a suite of Tableau dashboards to visualise municipal waste trends, sector behaviour, and landfill diversion efforts

• Enabled invoice reconciliation through visual validation of contractor collection data

• Integrated waste service requests from the Shire’s CRM

• Deployed a secure Tableau Cloud environment for council-wide access

Outcome:

The Colac Otway Shire now has end-to-end visibility of its waste systems — from community behaviour to financial tracking. This supports data-led waste education campaigns, performance monitoring, and cost-saving initiatives.

Client Type: Secondary Education

Location: Woodend, Victoria

Challenge: Undertake a Tableau dashboard project to track student achievement, growth, and attitudes over time — and support staff in using data to inform teaching and recognise student success

What we did:

• Designed a comprehensive Tableau dashboard suite to visualise student performance across subjects and learning areas

• Integrated multi-year data to track individual and cohort progress over time

• Included metrics for learning attitudes and competencies, providing a richer picture of student development

• Built visual tools to identify top-achieving students for awards and recognition

• Developed dashboards for interpreting internal survey data, giving insight into student and staff sentiment

Outcome:

Braemar College now has a robust, interactive dashboard platform that empowers staff to make data-informed decisions about student learning and recognition. The visualisations support both academic tracking and student wellbeing, with continued support as the school embeds Tableau Cloud into its day-to-day analytics workflow.

Client Type: Education – Secondary STEM Engagement

Location: Ballarat, Victoria

Challenge: Design an innovative curriculum to teach data literacy using real-world data collected from honey bee behaviour

What we did:

• Partnered with the Ballarat Tech School and CSIRO to create the Bees with Backpacks data analytics program

• Developed a hands-on Tableau-based curriculum for students to explore hive activity through real RFID tracking data

• Processed, cleaned, and visualised bee movement data to highlight trends in behaviour, time of day, and environmental influences

• Trained Ballarat Tech School staff to facilitate the program and manage the analytics platform

Outcome:

The Bees with Backpacks program introduces students to data analysis in a creative, memorable way — transforming raw biological data into visual stories that inspire curiosity and critical thinking. It now runs as a one-day experience, equipping learners with foundational skills in data exploration and interpretation using Tableau.

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