Georgia Thomas
Georgia completed a PhD degree in Animal and Veterinary Bioscience at the University of Sydney. Her thesis focused around using location data on a population of kangaroos to answer questions about their home ranges. Her passion for data exploded while doing data analysis for her thesis. She decided to follow her passion for data analytics and gained a position at The Data School Down Under. Georgia particularly loves working with spatial data as it gives better visual insights into a problem. Interesting fact about Georgia, the place she would most like to visit is Ireland due to her strong connection to her heritage there. She also enjoys playing basketball and Play Station games.
Dashboard Week | Thursday
Today we were given a new task to delve into the interesting yet morbid topic of motor vehicle accidents. With such a vast array of information and potential storylines to develop, it was no easy task! I opted to investigate the stigma of danger associated with...
Dashboard Week | Wednesday
Today we were tasked with building a dashboard regarding one of my favourite things ever: GAMING. To obtain our data we had to use an API from the site GiantBomb.com. After retrieving an API key, the next step was to work out what URL I needed to construct in order to...
Dashboard Week | Tuesday
Age of the Olympics On day two of dashboard week, we were provided with a colossal amount of Olympics data. It was pleasantly clean and looked great for analysis! The real challenge lying within was to find a story that hadn’t been told before… It took me most of the...
Dashboard Week | Monday
Monday’s task involved extracting, wrangling and understanding some seriously complex survey data. The entire survey dataset had over 12 000 questions (with that many columns) and over 63 000 respondents (with that many rows). This data was derived from the American...
Approaching Data Analytics: A Scientist’s Perspective
Scientists follow a tried-and-true method for project completion; We write out an Introduction, outline our Methods, report our Results and complete a Discussion to tie it all together. Seems very… scientific right? Not necessarily! I have already found that this line...
Alteryx Beginners Guide
Looking for an Alteryx Beginners Guide? Have a read below for some tips and tricks on Alteryx beginner use! Get a free trial of Alteryx HERE and download THIS basic workflow to get started. I have data to explore and fix! Palette: Aqua ...