Joshua Verbeek
Josh completed a Bachelor of Psychological Science in 2021, with a focus on research. He discovered a great passion for analytics through the degree, using such tools as SPSS and Stata in research and data management internships. Following graduation, he joined a Market Research graduate program working in data engineering.
His decision to join the Data School resulted from a desire to perform analyses, gain insights and communicate results in a visually engaging way.
Having previously studied and worked within Graphic Design, Josh is particularly interested in the way data is visualised and presented.
Outside of work, Josh enjoys cooking, going to local markets, experiencing live music and playing musical instruments. If he could only choose one dish for the rest of his life, he would choose pizza!
2022 NBA All-Star Big Men
With the NBA's All-Star break being held over the past weekend, what better time to dive into the analytics of some of the All-Star selections. Comparing players that play at the Power Forward and Centre, traditionally basketball's 'biggest' positions, we can see...
How to create a Waffle Chart in Tableau
What is a Waffle Chart? A Waffle Chart is a way to visualise proportional data, for example, percentage progress towards a goal's completion, or the proportions of a binary measure. Its unique design has seen it increasingly being used in Dashboard Design....
Dashboard Week Day 4 – Nightly Boston 311 Calls
Dashboard Week Dashboard week is an infamous week marked on every Data Schooler's calendar where, for every day, you're given the task of creating a new dashboard and writing a blog for that day. I missed my cohort's Dashboard week, and have since been catching...
Dashboard Week Day 3 – MoMA Acquistions
Dashboard Week Dashboard week is an infamous week marked on every Data Schooler's calendar where, for every day, you're given the task of creating a new dashboard and writing a blog for that day. I missed my cohort's Dashboard week, and have since been catching...
Dashboard Week Day 2 – Sentiment Analysis of Youtube’s Trending Videos
Dashboard Week Dashboard week is an infamous week marked on every Data Schooler's calendar where, for every day, you're given the task of creating a new dashboard and writing a blog for that day. I missed my cohort's Dashboard week, and have since been catching...
Dashboard Week Day 1 – Game of Thrones Deaths
Dashboard Week Dashboard week is an infamous week marked on every Data Schooler's calendar where, for every day, you're given the task of creating a new dashboard and writing a blog for that day. I missed my cohort's Dashboard week, and have since been catching...
Relative Paths in Alteryx
Relative paths in Alteryx are great when sharing your workflows between colleagues, and are particularly important in handing over work to clients. In this post, I'll summarise how the concept works when using the 'Input Data' tool in Alteryx. Relative Paths...
A day at the Data School
After recently completing my first client week, I thought I’d reflect on a day that incorporated training, project work and a client meeting. Hopefully, future data schoolers can catch a glimpse at what to look forward to! Training I rocked up to the...
How to use Mapbox maps with Tableau
Mapbox is a site that provides custom map templates, allows you to customise their templates, and integrate these templates with other programs. In this blog post, I'll be running through step-by-step how to use Mapbox Studio and bring in your custom maps into...
Level of Detail (LOD) Expressions in Tableau
Level of Detail (LOD) expressions in Tableau allow you to compute values at differing levels of granularity/detail. These expressions can allow you to fine-tune your computations at lesser, greater or independent levels of granularity. This grants the user greater...