Stephen Hughes
A 7-year retail veteran and Media and Communications graduate who has pivoted towards the exciting world of data. Enjoying the challenge of creating interesting but simple visualisation with complex data sets pushed Stephen towards The Data School in order to learn all he can.
Outside of data Stephen enjoys spending his time playing basketball (though not good at it), surfing back in Wollongong and exploring the virtual world in his spare time.
Data Schools Dashboard Week Thursday: Endangered Animals
Day 4 of dashboard week working with a new set of data from the oxford university national history museum. This data was very minimal and was a challenge on finding supplementary data to work with what we found. After trying many different API's and different sets of...
The Data Schools Dashboard Week Tuesday: London Fires
So for dashboard week day 2 we were given a set of data looking into fire incidents around London. Within this dataset you could find things such as the latitude and longitude for the incidents reported, the time it took responders to arrive, the types of incidents...
Data Schools Dashboard Week Wednesday: Brew Dog Beer
Today we had to focus on the use of an API to get our data. This was the infamous PunkApi which has a large amount of information on Brew Dog craft beer including colour, bitterness, alcohol percentage and Ingredients. This was to be taken and to be made into a...
The Data Schools Dashboard Week Monday: Melbourne Cup
So today marks the first day if dashboard week and the first of the of the blog posts with many yet to come. Of course, with the timing of all of this we thought it appropriate to start with some data about The Melbourne Cup to help with tomorrow's bets. The first...
What is Regex and how can it help?
Regex, or regular expression, is a sequence of characters to identify a specific patterns in string values. This is useful for those who have to extract or replace certain data that isn't easily accessed through traditional data manipulation. Regex allows the user to...
A Short Read: Measure Branching
Measure Branching and Keeping Calculations Clean Within most software that does data visualization there is a feature that allows you to also make calculations to help with said data visuals. Within Tableau these will be the calculated fields, in PowerBi this is known...
Pre attentive attributes: the key to catching the eye
Visualisation in data is about making it easy to identify points of interest within the data set. These could be trends, relationships, outliers and other KPIs. Because of this, it is always important to remember to make the marks on your visualisation easy to...
The Decade of Data
In this day and age, data is the key to success in almost everything we do. Modern societies revolve around collecting, distributing, and interpreting data, whether in day-to-day life or on a global scale. Not many decisions (not many smart ones, at least) are made...