Cody Batham
Cody previously worked in hospitality management managing various venues and working in night life, during this time, he found a passion for data. He was frequently using data to make decisions for the business to drive performance. He found a lot of enjoyment in exploring and utilising data within his job which drove the decision to explore a career in data.
Whilst exploring avenues to get into a data focused career, he found The Data School. Realising the opportunity was ideal for him, he started to play around with Tableau to begin the application viz and that’s when his passion for data flourished. He decided that it was data or nothing.
In his spare time he enjoys sprinting and strength Ctraining to keep fit, socialising with friends and fashion/garment design.
The Data Analyst Toolbox- PART 2: AI Prompt Engineering
In part 1 I talked about the ethics of AI and using AI to compliment your job with data security and integrity at front of mind. If you haven't read that one, you can click Here In this part we're going to be walking through how to prompt AI to best compliment your...
The Data Analyst Toolbox- PART 1: Data Security and AI Language Models
Part 1-The Security and Ethics of AI When Working with Data Whether you think AI is going to take your job soon or it's the best thing since sliced bread. One thing everyone can admit is that AI is going to become an integral part of working with data. Learning when...
Dashboard Week: Friday- IMDB Movie Data in Tableau
For our last day of dashboard week, we had to create a dashboard in Tableau using data from the IMDB website. This data included information about the movie or television show, and the cast involved. I made quite a few mistakes throughout the day as it was a very...
Dashboard Week: Wednesday- NEISS Product Injury Data in Tableau
Today's challenge was to create a dashboard in Tableau using data from the NEISS which is a consumer safety agency in the United States of America. This data was tracking incidents involving products from a sample size which were weighted because of frequency of...
Dashboard Week: Thursday- Crosswords in Power BI
Today's challenge was to use crossword puzzle data from as early as the 1940s to create a dashboard in Power BI. Today's challenge started off a little slow. Initially interpreting the data and finding an interesting narrative was difficult. But once I got into it, it...
Dashboard Week: Tuesday- NCAA Men’s Basketball Data in Power BI
The challenge today was to create a dashboard in Power BI by connecting to men's NCAA basketball data within a google cloud data source. as well as any using supporting data needed. Despite setbacks, I managed to create a very insightful dashboard with a different...
Dashboard Week: Monday- Musicals on Broadway Data in Tableau
The challenge today was to scrape data from Playbill.com and create a story using the data scraped as well as any supporting data needed. My day went surprisingly smooth all things considered, with the exception of formatting my dashboard. Once we received the...
How to Web Scrape Using Alteryx PART 2- Building Your Alteryx Workflow
Jumping into Alteryx If you Missed Part 1, It Can Be Found here. Now we have all our information, we can start build our workflow and scraping our data. (To note: I am building this workflow in Alteryx Designer 2025.1 So there may be some very small differences, but...
How to Web Scrape Using Alteryx PART 1- Understanding HTML
What is Web Scraping? When you think of web scraping, you may think of a person in a dark room with a hoodie on frantically clicking while they ravage the internet for all its data. This may be the picture some of the time. The reality is, if data is publicly...
My Reflection of Dashboard week- Learning How to Perform at My Best
My Reflection Dashboard week has become infamous within The Data School. When I would mention it to past data schoolers. Some would smile and explain how 'it's a tough week, but you learn a lot.' Others describe as 'a week from hell'. But If I were to describe it in a...