by Jonathan Waerner | Jul 30, 2019 | Jonathan Waerner
The four months of training at The Data School have been hard work, there has been some long days, some tricky content and big expectations. There are many things that I love about The Data School, by enjoying what I was doing I was able to take the challenges in my...
by Jonathan Waerner | Jul 25, 2019 | Jonathan Waerner
Towards the end of my time as a Data Schooler in Training, I’d like to share some of the resources I found to be helpful to my training. Some of these will be great to use in any profession, while others are more specific. 1. Notepad++ Has been my text editor...
by Jonathan Waerner | Jul 22, 2019 | Jonathan Waerner, Uncategorized
Last week we were working with a large data set of sales information, which equated to >200 million rows of data. The first couple of hours the team was fairly stuck in the mud, when trying to explore the data in Alteryx. In order to speed up the reading and...
by Jonathan Waerner | Jul 17, 2019 | Jonathan Waerner
A couple of weeks ago we were connecting our blog website’s Google Analytics Data. We had a great time comparing who the tops bloggers are, between and within Cohorts. During this week, I had a go at web-scraping our blog pages to get a URL for each blog, the tags,...
by Jonathan Waerner | Jul 16, 2019 | Jonathan Waerner
For the final day of dashboard week, we looked at a data-set of every recorded death of a Journalist where the cause of death was a direct result of the work. The data set is from The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). We were also challenged by Craig to only use...
by Jonathan Waerner | Jul 12, 2019 | Jonathan Waerner
Today we focused on using Data-sets available from Gapminder. These Data Sets cover a huge range of global measures, and it was awesome to explore them! I was especially excited to see many data-sets that covered many countries and went back so far in time (some back...
