Tim Fawcett
Tim has had a diverse career path in marketing and property development and most recently as a backend software developer in Melbourne. During this time Tim worked with Java and Ruby. His interest in data analytics is relatively recent and arose in part from a desire for a role with more emphasis on communication of technical knowledge and to present and discuss ideas with clients and collaborators.
Tim enjoys playing basketball competitively/socially and exploring Sydney’s many nearby coastlines. His favourite meal is Chicago deep-dish pizza.
Dashboard Week – Day 5
Dashboard Day 5 For the 5th day of Dashboard Week we were tasked with accessing a kaggle database set of survey data from an American study that looked at mental health disorders and music. I was curious about whether the music preferences of those with high self...
Dashboard Day 3 – Horse Racing Data
Dashboard Day 3 For the 3rd day of Dashboard Week we were tasked with accessing a large horse racing database on Kaggle. It contained historical horse racing stats since 1990 across hundreds of professional events throughout the world. I decided to look at a few of...
Dashboard Day 2 – Global Fire Database
Dashboard Day 2 For the second day of Dashboard Week we were tasked with accessing the Global Fire Dataset from Nasa. This dataset contains information on fires globally since 2000. It includes longitude and latitude location data for physical heat and fire sensors as...
Dashboard Week – Day 1
The first challenge for Dashboard week day 1 was to access an API for an Cooper Hewitt Museum in the USA (API | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) and then find some interesting data/insights to be presented in a tableau dashboard. I decided to...
Tableau Prep – How to Pivot
Tableau Prep can be a useful tool for cleaning and transforming data to make it more user friendly when it comes time to making a vizualisation. While not as expansive as Alteryx, Tableau Prep can complete some useful and commonly used methods of data transformation....
Alteryx Core Exam Tips
Having just passed the Alteryx Core Exam here are some useful tips that helped me get over the line: Check out the practice exam and exam guide by Alteryx: Core Cert Practice Test - Alteryx Community Core Certification Exam Prep Guide - Alteryx Community Know the...
Mastering Presentation Skills: The Power of Simple and Clear Introductions and Conclusions
Having just completed our cohorts second client project, I'm becoming a lot more comfortable presenting. It's interesting seeing how my own presentation style is developing as well as observing our the others in the team go about presenting their work to their...
Getting Started With SQL
We recently had our first exposure to SQL at the Data School where we received a introduction to all things SQL. Here are some useful queries and thoughts from that intro: Select Statements: The SELECT statement forms the backbone of SQL queries, enabling you to...
Table Calculations – Moving Average Challenge
For our Friday challenge we were tasked with solving a Workout Wednesday Tableau challenge. Having just learnt about table calculations and LODs, either of these had to be the topic of the challenge. I went with the week 33 challenge. It was a bit challenging as there...
Regex Intro
Regular expressions, or regex, is a super handy and powerful tool for matching patterns in text data. It's language agnostic meaning it can be used across many applications, software programs and programming languages. In our 3rd week at the data school we had a brief...