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Dashboard Week Day 1- Customer Service Requests- City of Melbourne

This post was originally published on The Data School blog between 2018 and July 2025, before our program was renamed to MIP’s Analytics Career Accelerator. References throughout this article to “The Data School” or “DS” all refer to what is now MIP’s Analytics Career Accelerator. The program, its people, and its commitment to launching outstanding analytics careers remain the same – just under a new name.

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Finally, we are at our dashboard week, which is two weeks earlier than usual and we are ready as we could be. During the dashboard week, we receive a dataset daily in the morning and we will be presenting this on next day, morning. Today is our first day and we received the dataset related to customer service requests in the city of Melbourne. Our Challenge is to find a supplementary dataset and derive some insights.

Data Preparation

Our first dataset is customer service requests by the City of Melbourne. Dataset can be found in the City of Melbourne Site. The data set is relatively clean, so it was an easy data preparation for the original dataset. However, I wanted to find the correlation between requests vs population, and see if age could be a factor for graffiti removal requests? So, I blended population and age data by suburb from Melbourne senses data.

Workflow for original data and Supplementary as below,

Once Preparation is ready, I brought data to the tableau and create a relationship between the two datasets.

Dashboard

After spending some time finding data and preparing I started working on my Dashboard. My main story is to find which suburb has the high request calls as per the person, is there any pattern of requests by weekday and which suburbs have most of the graffiti removal requests, and could the age be the factor for graffiti removal requests? My Final Dashboard as shown below,

In Summary, I found East Melbourne has the highest request rate per person and Melbourne had the highest number of graffiti removal requests it was interesting to see that Melbourne has the majority of young people compared to other suburbs.

You can find my Dashboard in Customer Service Requests – City of Melbourne. Hope you enjoy my viz and findings.

 

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