Jay Peter McIntosh
Before joining The Data School, Jay had completed a bachelor’s degree in medical science at Western Sydney University, where he was to get his first exposure to data analysis. After some time, he developed a passion for this analysis, allowing him to solve complex problems that may not be elucidated otherwise.
This led him to apply for a role in The Data School. Here, he hopes to cultivate his analytical abilities and provide valuable skills to the company.
In his free time, Jay enjoys hanging out with friends and playing sports.
Dashboard Week Day 2: Gaming Machine Analysis
Introduction Today marks the second day of Dashboard week, where our focus was to pivot towards analyzing gambling data in power BI. This source contained a bunch of information about different gambling types, but I chose to focus on gaming machines, and look at how...
Dashboard Week Day 4: Sustainable Development Goals
Introduction Today marked the fourth day of dashboard week and we were to produce another power BI report. This time, we were to investigate data coming from the Sustainable Development Goals and create a report from that. I decided to look at the third goal, which...
Dashboard Week Day 5: Harry Potter
Dashboard Day 5 Today marks the final day of dashboard week, and we were provided with some data from the Harry Potter movies series. Now if you aren't familiar with Harry Potter, it essentially follows a young wizard's journey through Hogwarts School of Witchcraft...
Dashboard Day 3: Crime Data
Day 3 For dashboard week day 3, we were tasked with web scraping some crime data from a webpage, and then designing a dashboard that explored some insights associated with that crime data. It was also highly recommended to bring in data from other sources, as the...
Dashboard Week Day 1: Hospital Performance Analysis
Introduction Today marks the beginning of dashboard week. A week where we have to complete an entire dashboard per day, each with unique associated tasks. Todays was to contact an API which contains a plethora of information associated within hospitals around...
Presentations – Best Practices: Part II
Getting Ready for Presentations: Part II Quite some time ago now I made one of my first blog posts. This blog post explored my initial thoughts about presentation preparation best practices when first joining the data school. I hope to now improve on those initial...
What did Donald say?
What did Donald say? Today was presentation day. The task was to connect to some data via an API and extract some of Donald Trumps most famous quotes. My goal once I had extracted the data was to build a dashboard showcasing some metadata surrounding the quote. I...
Dax – Main Things I’ve Learnt So Far
Introduction This week was our (DSAU25) first exposure to Data Analysis Expressions (DAX). Being as it was our first exposure, there was ample opportunity to learn new methods of analysing data. Through writing this blog, I hope to explore some of the main concepts I...
Data Connections in Tableau
There are many ways to create data connections in tableau. It is important that these connections are made correctly so that our visuals stay relevant and insightful. Avoiding leading our audience down a wrong path. In the coming text, ways to create connections...
Workflows in Alteryx: Keeping it Clean and Tidy
Keeping it Clean and Tidy in Alteryx Learning workflows in Alteryx can be a challenge. However, something that can help with that learning process, and beyond, is keeping things neat and tidy. The following text describes some methods that are utilised to keep...