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Jonathan Waerner
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The Data School Training Period – Reflections and Highlights
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....
7 Apps and Websites I used while at the Data School
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...
Using Calgary in Alteryx
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...
Web-Scraping using Batch and Iterative Macros
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,...
Dashboard Week, Day 5 – Journalist Deaths
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...
Dashboard Week, Day 4 – Gapminder Data, Visualizing Life Expectancy
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...
Dashboard Week, Day 3 – ICC Cricket World Cup Data
Today we worked on making dashboards using the cricket data Craig has been working on recently. I thought I’d use this opportunity to make a...
Dashboard Week, Day 2 – Coffee Pods and Plastic Waste
Today we were given a much cleaner set of tables, but were challenged instead by being restricted to using Power BI. Since we have only...
Dashboard Week, Day 1 – Domain API
The first day of Dashboard Week kicked off with an API challenge. We were all required to connect to the Domain API, which gave us...
Learning to Code – Starting from Scratch
Both Tableau and Alteryx provide a great visual user interface and provide complex outcomes with simple drag and drop actions, meaning that people from all...