Nicholas Hills
After studying environmental science in the US with a soccer scholarship, Nicholas travelled around the world for around 3 years, out of which he spent 2 years in Colombia. After coming back from the great adventure, Nicholas worked for EY in marketing research where he came across Tableau and grew interested in data analytics. He is passionate about products like Tableau and Alteryx that enable every-day people to explore data and discover insights which are otherwise hard to identify.
In his free time, he enjoys hiking, photography. While forever passionately exploring new hobbies, Nick recently falls in love with rock climbing.
Reflections and Thoughts About The Data School
4 months later. 7 Clients projects completed. 2 external software certifications attained. 1 Christmas Party. 1 conference attended. Plus much more! After spending a good part of the last 5 years living abroad, I had not considered ever undertaking a career in...
Dashboard Week Day 5 – End User Analysis of Personal Consumption Expenditure with Tableau
What can I find out about 500 US Cities? I will be looking at a dataset from the CDC for Better Health 2019. The data includes 27 measures of chronic disease related to unhealthy behaviours, health outcomes, and use of preventive services from the years 2016 and 2017....
Dashboard Week Day 3 – KickStarter Projects Data Analysis with Tableau
Hump day! Time to start a Kaggle Challenge with KickStarter data! Mid-way through dashboard week and we had an easier task today. I utilised Tableau exclusively for my final dashboard. Tableau is a great tool to let you start dragging and dropping measures and...
Dashboard Week Day 4 – End User Analysis of Personal Consumption Expenditure in the USA
Spending in Healthcare? Spending in Education? How has consumer spending changed over time in the USA? Let's find out. For today we got to play around with a dataset about the Personal Consumption Expenditure in the U.S. dating back to 1959. The Brief:...
Dashboard Week Day 2 – Spatial Analysis of Global Piracy Since 1978
Watch this Spatial! Today's challenge was a spatial analysis task. Tableau is a great tool to let you start dragging and dropping measures and dimensions to get to know your data on the fly! Visually, we can start to rapidly interrogate our data and derive insights....
Dashboard Week Day 1 – Music Analysis Using the Spotify API
Spotify and Tableau. A match made in heaven! At the Data School, we are nearing the end of our analytics training. For Dashboard Week, day 1, the focus was to use the Spotify API to extract data on either artists or tracks. The Brief: Use the Spotify API to...
How To Create a Dynamic Dashboard for Coronavirus with Google Sheets and Tableau
Don't have access to a database server but want to keep your data dynamic? Google Sheets and Tableau team up to make this so. Recently, I discovered it is possible to use Google Sheets to scrape data from a webpage. The solution is fairly simple and intuitive. Not...
Beta Buffering in Tableau 2020.1
Watch this Spatial! Tableau is constantly adding new features with every update. As a beta member, was able to play around with the new buffer calculation in the 2020.1 release. In the Data School we have learnt how to use spatial tools in Alteryx to create trade...
5 Must-Read Books for Data Analytics
Are you interested in delving into a career in data analytics but don't know where to start? That is a question I had prior to joining 'The Data School Down Under'. I was hearing all the noise created by the world of big data. I wanted to develop an understanding of...