Aaron Potts

As a former private sector teacher and tutor, Aaron brings his passion for clear communication and skill development to the world of data analytics. After graduating from CUNY Hunter with a degree in Politics, he used data-driven insights to serve clients ranging in age from 4 to 40, developing his skills in test preparation, academic enrichment, public speaking, and educational data analytics. His students went on to acceptance and graduation at Georgetown, MIT, Columbia, and other top universities.

Collaborating with partners in the NYC tech community, he co-wrote educational games in Unity targeted toward Common Core standards and developed programming skills in C# and Lua. After time serving the NYC Vax4All program and the NYC Mayor’s Public Engagement Unit, Aaron decided to completely retask to tech and data work. At the end of 2022 he gratefully accepted a fellowship at Fullstack Academy's Data Analyst Training Accelerator (DATA) program funded by the NYC Tech Talent Pipeline, demonstrating skill in Tableau, Excel, SQL, and Python. Now that he has graduated from the training portion of The Data School, he is excited to help communicate insights to improve stakeholders' decision-making and competence in analytics.

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Tue 12 Mar 2024 | Aaron Potts
Mind the Gap: Choices and Problems with Missing Date Values in Tableau
When working on a time-sensitive project for a client, I was tasked with making sure that missing values were represented as zeros in various graphs. You might be thinking "Aaron, why not just click 'Show Missing Values' on the axis? This is easy peasy." Well, theory and practice are different
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Thu 15 Feb 2024 | Aaron Potts
Prepping for Change: Intro to Alteryx to Tableau Prep Migrations
Tableau Prep and Alteryx both let you prepare data for visualization
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Thu 15 Feb 2024 | Aaron Potts
Spatial Data 101: Alteryx Spatial Tools for Beginners (Part 3)
In this final part in the three part series, learn how to use Spatial Match, Spatial Info, Poly-Build, and Find Nearest to perform the most essential spatial analytics tasks.
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Thu 01 Feb 2024 | Aaron Potts
The Census And You: Querying the Census API With Alteryx
Learn how to build a query for the US Census API, implement it in an Alteryx workflow, and transform the output into usable data.
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Tue 09 Jan 2024 | Aaron Potts
Spatial Data 101: Alteryx Spatial Tools for Beginners (Part 2)
In the last entry in this series, you learned how to input spatial data of various types and create a basic trade area around individual points
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Tue 12 Dec 2023 | Aaron Potts
Spatial Data 101: Alteryx Spatial Tools for Beginners (Part 1)
Alteryx has an extensive set of tools that let you work with spatial data. There's a good chance you'll rarely or never use them as a data analyst, but if you do, you can manipulate spatial data to analyze a wide range of scenarios
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Wed 06 Dec 2023 | Aaron Potts
Videos for Data: Best Practices and Tips (Part 1)
Making videos for data analytics isn't something everyone has experience. Take advantage of lessons learned by DSNY6 to level up your video storytelling skills.
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Wed 25 Oct 2023 | Aaron Potts
Going Further: Cleaning Up Your Measures Through Calculated Fields
When your swappable metrics have different units, getting those units to display right is hard. Learn how to use calculated fields to display units properly in labels and tooltips.
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Fri 20 Oct 2023 | Aaron Potts
The Core of the Matter: Prepping for the Alteryx Designer Core Certification
The Alteryx Designer Core certification exam is worth doing, and you can beat it by following these steps to prepare.
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Thu 19 Oct 2023 | Aaron Potts
Output Sanity: Using Strings to Organize Alteryx Output
Alteryx's Output Tool is a less-heralded hero in your data's journey - it doesn't look like much, but it offers context-sensitive flexibility in the production of your final data product
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Fri 06 Oct 2023 | Aaron Potts
Applying for Growth Part 2: The Tangible Benefits
Beyond the chance to join the company, applying to The Data School has real benefits for your career and data analytics skills.
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Tue 03 Oct 2023 | Aaron Potts
Applying for Growth Part 1: Beating Imposter Syndrome
You'll often hear job applications described as "soul-crushing," and that's the unavoidable reality even when the job market is hot
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