After doing BA in Economics Anna took a break from the world of data for 4 years, working odd jobs in several different continents and blogging about her experiences. She then returned to the UK to do a Masters in Online Journalism at Birmingham City University. During the course she discovered data visualisations was a great way to merge her storytelling and data skills. After attending the Tableau Zen Master Tour, the Data School was the logical next step.
Anna Noble

Blog Posts


Sun 04 Mar 2018 | Anna Noble
Week 2 Roundup: Tableau tips, James Eiloart and viz makeovers
Tableau’s James Eiloart with DS8
In Week 2, Andy Kriebel gave DS8 a large dose of Tableau training. For their
Friday presentations, the group used the data they had prepared for the previous
week’s Alteryx project to help them re-viz and add context to their application
Tableau dashboard


Thu 01 Mar 2018 | Anna Noble
Week 1 roundup: Alteryx and an intro to Tableau Server
A new group of eight people entering the Data School means eight new bloggers to
welcome to the internet. To make it easy for you to follow their journey, we’ll
be posting a weekly roundup of the teams’ blog posts as they go through The
Information Lab’s four-month training program


Tue 27 Feb 2018 | Anna Noble
3 Reasons you should follow The Data School blogs
DS8 design infographics with Caroline Beavon [https://carolinebeavon.com/]
DS8, the 8th group of 8 people started their training at The Data School two
weeks ago. I’ve been helping them get acquainted with the world of blogging and
these guys are creating some great content


Mon 06 Feb 2017 | Anna Noble
Workout Wednesday week 5: LoD defeat but I figured out the legend!
Andy’s Workout Wednesday [http://www.vizwiz.com/2017/02/ww-distributions.html]
looking at the distribution of NFL players performances between 2006 and 2016
took me a seriously long time to figure out. Here’s a quick explanation of what
I found tough and why


Sat 07 Jan 2017 | Anna Noble
If I could go back to the start...
Time for one last reflective blog, looking at what I would do differently if
time travel was possible and I could restart the Data School. I think I’d look
to adopt the things I’ve already talked about from the beginning, asking
questions
[https://www.thedataschool.co


Thu 29 Dec 2016 | Anna Noble
Asking questions to succeed at the Data School
After almost 3 months, I’ve come to the conclusion that asking lots of questions
is one of the best ways tosurvive succeed in the Data School.
Just ask
It’s an incredibly simple thing to do. But I know sometimes asking for help can
feel difficult thanks to this annoying thing called pride


Thu 29 Dec 2016 | Anna Noble
Data School challenges logic, learning and self confidence
Coming from a journalism background, adapting to the world of data analysis has
come with lots of challenges. The written word is my favourite way to
communicate, to tell stories. But in the Data School storytelling happens
visually and verbally


Tue 29 Nov 2016 | Anna Noble
Create a lollipop style control chart (part2): Using size and colour to show variation
Here’s how used calculated fields in my lollipop control chart to highlight the
variation in height and wingspan. To catch up on how I built the chart using
data for the Data School Iron Viz competition check out part 1
[https://www.thedataschool.co


Mon 28 Nov 2016 | Anna Noble
Create a lollipop style control chart (part1): 2 measure lollipops
Carl Allchin [https://twitter.com/Datajedininja] introduced DS4 to control
charts last week [https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/megan-hunt/make-simple-control-chart/]. And I
got inspired to take the idea of highlighting those that are on target vs
outliers into my Data School Ironviz [https://www


Mon 28 Nov 2016 | Anna Noble
Grabbing a beer with Import.io data extractor
I recently used Import.io [https://www.import.io/] to scrape some data on US
craft beer brewers [https://www.brewersassociation.org/statistics/by-state/].
It’s a great tool for scraping data without having to know a single bit of
code, so I thought I’d share it with you guys


Fri 25 Nov 2016 | Anna Noble
#DJUK16: Blue plaque data viz asks where are the women?
At the Data Journalism UK conference, Chris Love and I, showed journalists how
Tableau can make data visualisation easy. Here’s a quick recap of the data we
used and the demo viz Chris created. Then I’ll share what did with the data


Wed 26 Oct 2016 | Anna Noble
Alteryx: It all starts with Input Data
Every workflow needs a data source. Enter the Input Data tool – arguably the
most important tool in Alteryx!
Access to different data sources
The Input Data tool allows you to load in a range of data files, including
Excel, CSV, XML & JSON


Tue 25 Oct 2016 | Anna Noble
5 tips to make creating a workflow in Alteryx easy(er)
Getting to grips with Alteryx this week at the Data School is making my head
hurt. But here’s some tips I picked up form Chris Love
[https://twitter.com/ChrisLuv] to make life easy when you’re using Alteryx for
the first time.
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Wed 12 Oct 2016 | Anna Noble
Makeover Monday: Temperatures are rising
Day 2 at the Data School,it was time for a #MakeoverMonday
[http://www.makeovermonday.co.uk/]. Ed Hawkins‘ [https://twitter.com/ed_hawkins]
visualisation of average global temperatures was our first chance to remake a
viz and put our new Tableau knowledge to the test