Matt Hoschke
Matt originally studied Physics but decided against pursuing a career in academia, instead devoting several years working in climbing, as well as travel, and studies in music and Korean language. Recently, Matt completed a master’s degree in biostatistics before applying for The Data School. He seeks to draw from his broad training in quantitative analysis and gain real-world experience during the program.
Dashboard Week Part 4: Music and Mental Health
Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay Introduction Our coach was kind enough to give us a day off dashboard week yesterday to prepare for our upcoming Tableau exams. I very much appreciated the chance to recover somewhat from the last few days of intense dashboarding....
Dashboard Week Part Three – Horseracing Speeds across Common Distances
Image by Clarence Alford from Pixabay Introduction Today's topic was horseraces and racehorses from 1990 to 2020. The source was a this Kaggle site. There were many different approaches I could have taken with this data. This was a challenging day, partly from fatigue...
Dashboard Week Part Two: Visualising Australian Fires
Image by Matthias Fischer from Pixabay Introduction Bushfires have a significant impact on ecosystems, air quality, and human lives. The dataset for today's Tableau dashboard is the MODIS Active Fire Data. This is freely available information about the location,...
Dashboard Week Part One: Cooper Hewitt Museum API and Image URLs in Dashboards
Introduction Today's task was to connect to data from the Cooper Hewitt Museum API and build a dashboard with some of the data, with an option to enhance with data from other sources. The Cooper Hewitt is dedicated to the preservation, exhibition, and exploration of...
First Week at Data School – Initial Thoughts and Comparisions to
The first week (and a bit) of The Data School has passed. For the next couple of weeks the focus is getting up to speed with the software Tableau and Alteryx, and along the way learning about industry best practices in data manipulation and visualisation. Some of...