by Nicholas Hills | Mar 27, 2020 | Nicholas Hills
4 months later. 7 Clients projects completed. 2 external software certifications attained. 1 Christmas Party. 1 conference attended. Plus much more! After spending a good part of the last 5 years living abroad, I had not considered ever undertaking a career in...
by Nicholas Hills | Mar 16, 2020 | Nicholas Hills
What can I find out about 500 US Cities? I will be looking at a dataset from the CDC for Better Health 2019. The data includes 27 measures of chronic disease related to unhealthy behaviours, health outcomes, and use of preventive services from the years 2016 and 2017....
by Nicholas Hills | Mar 15, 2020 | Nicholas Hills
Hump day! Time to start a Kaggle Challenge with KickStarter data! Mid-way through dashboard week and we had an easier task today. I utilised Tableau exclusively for my final dashboard. Tableau is a great tool to let you start dragging and dropping measures and...
by Nicholas Hills | Mar 15, 2020 | Nicholas Hills
Spending in Healthcare? Spending in Education? How has consumer spending changed over time in the USA? Let’s find out. For today we got to play around with a dataset about the Personal Consumption Expenditure in the U.S. dating back to 1959. The Brief:...
by Nicholas Hills | Mar 11, 2020 | Nicholas Hills
Watch this Spatial! Today’s challenge was a spatial analysis task. Tableau is a great tool to let you start dragging and dropping measures and dimensions to get to know your data on the fly! Visually, we can start to rapidly interrogate our data and derive...
by Nicholas Hills | Mar 10, 2020 | Nicholas Hills
Spotify and Tableau. A match made in heaven! At the Data School, we are nearing the end of our analytics training. For Dashboard Week, day 1, the focus was to use the Spotify API to extract data on either artists or tracks. The Brief: Use the Spotify API to...
