I mentioned the preattentive attributes in one of my blogs: How to Choose Colours for Data Visualisation. I briefly explained what it is in that blog. I want to dive deeper in this blog because it's essential to be aware and understand it sufficiently to design effective data

I spent the week painting and learning how to paint at the National Art School (NAS). For those who are interested, it is Australia's most important art institution. This year, the year 2022, the school marks the centenary of occupying the sandstone buildings of the former Darlinghurst Gaol.

Henry Hubbard, known for modernizing the periodic table created by the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev said, "There is magic in graphs. The profile of a curve reveals in a flash a whole situation – the life history of an epidemic, a panic, or an era of prosperity. The curve informs

Here I have a table of fictitious data of visits to a website broken down by visitors' devices. If I ask you to describe what you see in the data, such as which device is the most popular? Describe the device usage trend over time; you'll agree

Data cleaning is removing or correcting inaccurate information within a data set; this could mean missing data, misspelled words, or unwanted prefixes, to name a few issues. Data cleaning is not the most exciting and glamorous of processes. It can be rather tedious and time-consuming, but you know what, I

Data analysis plays a role in making decisions more scientific and helping businesses operate more effectively. It is the process of collecting, cleansing, transforming and modelling to discover insights to inform conclusions and support decision-making. When we speak about analysing data, we follow a process to reach our goal of

When I first started in this field, I was ignorant. I had no idea that there were different types of analytics. It was about two years into this field that I came across it. I wished I had known sooner. It's given me clarity on my continuing analytics

I went through school being a very slow learner. The only approach I know to learn is rote learning. I'm one of those students who study hard, harder than most students in my cohort, but my grades would often be lower than theirs. I felt dumb because of

Want to learn data analyst skills but don't know where to start? I'll share a road map you can follow; no prior knowledge is required. As I mentioned in my previous post, Top 3 non-technical skills for effective data analyst, there is no end to learning

Data analytics is a highly technical field. As someone still new on this career path, I spend a lot of my time focusing on learning and improving my technical skills. However, I recognize that to thrive in a work environment and be an effective data analyst, developing and honing non-technical

As my very first blog, I will christen my website by sharing how I landed my first job in analytics. I’ll share some of the thoughts and feelings I had and what I did to secure that analytics role. My first analytics position was as a Salesforce Analyst. I