Alex Hirst

Throughout his education, Alex has wanted to keep as many doors open as possible and his career would always be an extension of this. He saw the potential of data in a growing technological world and he knew he had to get involved. The variety of subject fields and clientele excited him.

Alex stumbled across the Data School when applying to be a data consultant. He took a chance and made his first visualisation on his favourite football team, Arsenal. From the first minute, he was hooked, spending countless hours on perfecting his work. He knew this was the career for him.

In his spare time, Alex enjoys a variety of hand-eye sports, although his table tennis ability has been greatly humbled since joining the Data School.

Blog Posts

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Tue 29 Dec 2020 | Alex Hirst
Alteryx Weekly Challenge #7 - Download Data and Parse JSON
Alteryx Weekly Challenge #7 walkthrough. This challenge looks at downloading and parsing JSON files into workable formats.
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Tue 29 Dec 2020 | Alex Hirst
Alteryx Weekly Challenge #6 – Spatial Route
Alteryx challenge 6 walkthrough. Challenge 6 is the first spatial challenge Alteryx released and looks into building spatial lines and measuring them.
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Fri 27 Nov 2020 | Alex Hirst
Dashboard Week Day 5 : Alaskan Crab Population
Day 5 of Dashboard Week. A long-form dashboard investigating the sharp fall in the King Red Crab Population in Alaska.
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Thu 26 Nov 2020 | Alex Hirst
Dashboard Week Day 4 : California Wildfire
Longform dashboard for day 4 of dashboard week. Supported by an explanation of my Alteryx workflow and thought processes.
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Wed 25 Nov 2020 | Alex Hirst
Dashboard Week Day 3 : Tornado Data
Dashboard Week Day 3. A wide-form(?) dashboard on tornado data.
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Tue 24 Nov 2020 | Alex Hirst
Dashboard Week Day 2 : Deforestation Data
Dashboard Week Day 2. Long-form dashboard exploring deforestation dataset.
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Mon 23 Nov 2020 | Alex Hirst
Dashboard Week Day 1 : Gulf of Mexico Temperature Data
Dashboard Week Day 1. A chronological walkthrough of my thoughts and processes to creating my final viz.
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Tue 13 Oct 2020 | Alex Hirst
How to build Bullet Graphs in Tableau
Hey! Today we learned about bullet charts. It seemed like a great way to cram in lots of information into a single chart so I thought I’d run through the process of making it so the public can also benefit
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Mon 14 Sep 2020 | Alex Hirst
Makeover Monday Week 37 - Walk-through
Hey Everyone!! So today I will walk-through my thought process for my latest Makeover Monday. I usually like to spend a bit of time on Makeover Monday (~3hr) to iterate on all the smallest, and probably pointless, design quirks. But not today. I gave myself a strictly timed 1 hour
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Fri 04 Sep 2020 | Alex Hirst
Cross-Tab - Alteryx Challenge #219 Walkthrough
Hey! So this blog will be looking at Alteryx challenge #219. This challenge focuses on most of the favourites tools, as well as cross-tab, so this could be of help to a beginner (like me)
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Fri 04 Sep 2020 | Alex Hirst
Parsing with Regex - Alteryx Challenge #56 Walkthrough
Hey! Today I’ll be going through challenge 56 of the Alteryx Challenges – a regex special edition. Now if you’ve got no experience in Regex, don’t worry, this will be a good place to start
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Wed 19 Aug 2020 | Alex Hirst
Dashboard Week (the easier version)
Hey everyone! So our task today was to analyse and evaluate one of Andy’s past visualizations across some of the dashboard practices he had taught us so far. The objective was to find areas on which we think we could improve and ultimately, produce a ‘better’ dashboard
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