by Cody Batham | Jul 8, 2025 | Cody Batham
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...
by Cody Batham | Jul 7, 2025 | Alteryx, Cody Batham
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...
by Cody Batham | Jul 7, 2025 | Alteryx, Cody Batham
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...
by Cody Batham | Jul 7, 2025 | Cody Batham
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...
by Cody Batham | Jul 7, 2025 | Cody Batham
Why So Many Ws? When creating a data visualisation, whether its Tableau, Power BI or even Excel (please don’t use excel). Answering ‘The Four W’s’ is how I set myself up to be able to give a unique perspective on the data. There are 4 questions...
by Cody Batham | Jul 7, 2025 | Cody Batham
The Enemy of Progress While many consider procrastinating a bad thing. I would argue it is a crucial part of the human experience in producing anything. There are some people who can just sit down and get something done and I just have one thing to say to those...
