Adam Sultanov

Adam is a creative professional working as a Tableau and Alteryx Consultant at the Data School New York. He earned a BA from Oberlin College in Studio Art and East Asian Studies before gaining a wide array of professional experience, from art and design to operations and management. Before coming to the Data School, he completed a full stack software development intensive at the Flatiron School, where he combined his aesthetic sensibility with his love of learning and working with data. From this multidisciplinary background, Adam is uniquely positioned to find interesting challenges and pursue meaningful work in the realm of data analytics. Committed to excellence and continual growth, he is excited to work with the Data School to transform the way businesses leverage their data.

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Wed 31 Jan 2024 | Adam Sultanov
How and When to Use Regex in Alteryx
For many, having to use RegEx in their workflow is good reason to burn it all down. Hopefully this blog can make that process a little easier
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Fri 12 Jan 2024 | Adam Sultanov
Dates in Alteryx
Working with data in Alteryx you're going to encounter dates. A lot. They can be finicky and it's not always clear how to get to where you need to go. I thought I would put everything I've learned so far in one place in order to help someone (very probably me) in the future
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Fri 01 Dec 2023 | Adam Sultanov
Dashboard Week Day 4: Application Rehash
With today, dashboard week comes to a close
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Tue 28 Nov 2023 | Adam Sultanov
Dashboard Week Day 3: Genius and Lyrics
Today began with the Genius API. Genius is an app that provides lyrics and the meaning behind them, meaning they have a huge database of songs and artists. We were given a link to their API documentation and told to have a go at it
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Mon 27 Nov 2023 | Adam Sultanov
Dashboard Week Day 2: Day of Cheese
For our second day of dashboard week we have been given – a single URL! Cheese.com. And a complimentary video to accompany it (helpful). This gave us way more freedom than day 1, but also meant a lot more work in terms of scraping the web to secure the data we needed
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Wed 22 Nov 2023 | Adam Sultanov
Dashboard Week Day 1: Slovakian Survey
Welcome to Dashboard Week! For our first day we have been given a data set from a survey conducted in 2013. It follows young people aged 15-30 from Slovakia, along a huge list of questions and metrics. You can find it here
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Mon 16 Oct 2023 | Adam Sultanov
GDPR Principles
Echoing my last blog post, I'd like to talk about principles of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), and why we should adhere to them
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Tue 05 Sep 2023 | Adam Sultanov
Data Security and Ethics
It's not just the realm of data scientists and ethicists. As data workers it is imperative that we remain aware of our ethical obligations around gathering and using personally identifiable information. It is also on us to protect and keep the data that we collect secure
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Tue 15 Aug 2023 | Adam Sultanov
Historical Spotlight: William Playfair
Born in Scotland in 1759, William Playfair is credited with inventing the bar chart, the pie chart, the line chart, and the area chart
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Wed 23 Aug 2023 | Adam Sultanov
Advanced Alteryx Tool Options
In order to supplement my previous blog post, Navigating the Alteryx Tool Set, which goes over the basic tools at one's disposal, I'm going to add descriptions here about some advanced tools to really supercharge your workflows
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Fri 18 Aug 2023 | Adam Sultanov
Navigating the Alteryx Tool Set
Alteryx provides a wide array of tools to use in one's workflows. In fact, there are so many it can be hard to remember which is which! Here is a helpful guide to the most common tools, what they are and what they do
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Wed 16 Aug 2023 | Adam Sultanov
Using Calculated Fields to Work With Strings in Tableau
There are a ton of functions in Tableau for working with strings in calculated fields. This is a list of all the functions you might want to use, with brief descriptions for each and some examples to make things clear. ASCII() returns the ASCII code value of the first character in a string
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Mon 14 Aug 2023 | Adam Sultanov
Preattentive Attributes and Gestalt Principles
Part of our job as Data Analysts and Tableau experts is to reveal insights in data by displaying it visually. Creating effective charts and dashboards means balancing density of information with the principles of visual design
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