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Dashboard Week at The Data School is Off and Racing

I gave the team some raw data via a webscrape of racenet.com.au, plus some history stats of winners since 1983.  They had to use Alteryx to do quite a lot of parsing in order to get the data into a Tableau friendly format

November 6, 2018 in Horse racing, Tableau, The Data School, Uncategorized.

Melbourne Cup 2016: Following the Money with Alteryx and Tableau

Hi Folks, I’ve just been putting together an automated daily Alteryx data scrape into a Tableau viz – for analysing the Futures market for the Melbourne Cup 2016. I have noticed one particular horse is getting quite a lot of attention, with the odds moving significantly over the last week or so. I’ve made a small investment, and…

October 22, 2016 in Horse racing, Tableau.

Taking Tableau 10’s Responsive Design for a Punt

Hi Folks, I’ve just finished putting together my entry for the 3rd and final Iron viz 2016 qualifying contest. The theme this time is an ‘Iron viz Mobile Edition‘ – and was all about designing a viz for mobile, tablet and desktop devices.  It was a great opportunity to try out Tableau 10’s new device…

September 19, 2016 in Data, Horse racing, IronViz, Tableau.

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