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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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
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
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
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
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
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