Alfie King

Alfie has experience as an analyst at an agronomic laboratory, where he was actively involved in data collection and analysis of soil samples. During this time, he quickly mastered various techniques and developed a range of new skills across multiple testing methods.

Prior to this role, Alfie earned a BSc in Pharmacology from the University of Reading, specialising in stem cell treatments for breast cancer. His academic background provided him with a solid foundation in scientific research and data analysis, involving extensive data handling and interpretation. Notably, his undergraduate research is currently being explored further as a potential treatment for breast cancer.

Alfie’s passion for data analytics developed during his time at university and through his previous roles. At the Data School, he honed his skills in Alteryx, SQL, and Tableau, and gained valuable consulting experience by working on diverse projects ranging from the sports industry to railway companies. These included a project for a Data Infrastructure company, analysing survey responses to help the company see which offices had maintenance issues and what those issues were. This allowed them to know which areas were important to the employees and will lead to a better working environment for them.

Outside of his professional life, Alfie enjoys American football, both playing and coaching his former team. He also finds joy in cooking.

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Tue 03 Dec 2024 | Alfie King
Information Buttons in Tableau
I was recently designing a dashboard using data from Makeover Monday about Slavery in 2023. After finishing up the design I wanted feedback on the design. So I went to other people at The Information Lab.  I got feedback that some more context about the data was needed
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Tue 08 Oct 2024 | Alfie King
Dashboard Week Days 4-5: Data+TV
So here it is the end of our training at the DS. Our final project was the tableau #DataplusTV. We had data from IMDb about every TV show and their ratings and actors
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Wed 25 Sep 2024 | Alfie King
Dashboard Week Day 3 - Street Fighter
Day 3 was all about Street Fighter, but more specifically PowerBI and Alteryx Web Scraping. The day started with us not receiving data but instead some webpages and a good luck
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Tue 24 Sep 2024 | Alfie King
Screen Readers and Tableau
Day 2 of dashboard week was all about accessibility and the challenge I was given was to make a tableau dashboard be usable by someone who uses a screen reader. As the dashboard they had was not able to do this
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Mon 23 Sep 2024 | Alfie King
Dashboard week Day 1 - Football
When the day started we were given data on the UEFA Women’s Euros from 2022. This data included many different tables. This caused me to immediately start thinking about all the possibilities of dashboards and analysis
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Wed 14 Aug 2024 | Alfie King
Moving Quadrants on a Scatter Plot
With scatter plots its always useful to see trends, however, sometimes we want to see how the points on the scatter plot relate to other scatter plots. Do to this the best way is using quadrants
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Mon 05 Aug 2024 | Alfie King
Scaffolding
Today we were set a challenge to create a 6-month moving average of sales by state in the Sample-Superstore.xlsx dataset in Tableau Prep.  This challenge seemed easy at first to just go through table calculations and create a moving average grouped by State/Province
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Fri 19 Jul 2024 | Alfie King
Normalizing Values in PBI
When working on a project, I had the Idea that a Radar Chart would be extremely beneficial to the story I wanted to tell. To create a radar chart with all of the points representing different categories all with different scales, I had to normalize the values so they would all be at the same scale
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Mon 01 Jul 2024 | Alfie King
Finding " " in DAX
We had to generate an email address for these customers that were of the form “FirstName Surname” as seen here. The task was to do all of the steps in PowerBI Desktop instead of PowerQuery
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Tue 25 Jun 2024 | Alfie King
Containers
When starting my application for the data school we had to create a visualisation, and when it came to actually creating the dashboard I struggled throughout the application. This is because I was using floating panes instead of containers
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Tue 25 Jun 2024 | Alfie King
Data Models
Creating a data model is like a lot of projects in data. It is significantly easier if you plan first. The first step to planning a data model is trying to think of all the questions that would be asked of this data
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Tue 04 Jun 2024 | Alfie King
Sometimes toddlers do know best.
When learning about how to be a consultant on our second day at the Data school, we learned that sometimes toddlers do know best when it comes to getting the real answer to a question. Toddlers are also at the forefront of understanding the relationship between a consultant and a client
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