Ben Connor

Ben joined the Data School following an academic and professional background in pharmaceuticals. He is an advanced user of Tableau/Alteryx and during his time at the Data School has helped clients across the financial & professional services industries make more informed, data-driven decisions.

He has worked as a Tableau/Alteryx Consultant for PwC and Vanguard for his first and second placements respectively.

Specific skills include:

  • Extracting data from PDF's
  • Automation of manual excel tasks
  • Using RegEx to parse complex data inputs
  • Building interactive Tableau Dashboards
  • Creating customised Tableau & Alteryx training content
  • SQL
  • PowerBI

He has also been working on Snowflake & Python projects in his own time to broaden his technical skillset.

Certifications (See below):

  • Tableau Data Analyst
  • Alteryx Designer Advanced
  • AWS Technical Accreditation

Certifications

Blog Posts

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Tue 21 Feb 2023 | Ben Connor
Tableau Parameters: How to Set up Default Values
How to create a parameter with a dynamic default value which will always update based on new data in a given field e.g. Default to a state with the highest sales.
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Fri 24 Dec 2021 | Ben Connor
Alteryx Tips: Streamlining workflows with RegEx
A quick overview of why Regex is an important skill to learn for parsing complex strings!
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Fri 31 Dec 2021 | Ben Connor
DS 26 Dashboard Week Day 3 - The EU Referendum
A quick overview of our task for dashboard week day 3 - Working with EU referendum data
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Thu 30 Dec 2021 | Ben Connor
DS 26 Dashboard Week - Day 2
For the penultimate day of dashboard week we were tasked with looking at smoking rates across the US - This is what I came up with!
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Mon 27 Sep 2021 | Ben Connor
Tableau Tips: Dynamic Scatter Plots using Parameters
A quick guide on building dynamic scatter plots using parameters in Tableau Desktop.
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Tue 21 Sep 2021 | Ben Connor
Alteryx Joins vs. Find Replace - 2 Ways to Connect Data
Some quick Alteryx tips on joining data sources using both the 'Join' and 'Find Replace' Tools.
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Thu 16 Sep 2021 | Ben Connor
Progress Towards a Goal - Gantt Bar Indicators
A quick and easy way to show progress towards a goal using a dual axis chart containing bars and gantt bars.
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Mon 13 Sep 2021 | Ben Connor
Data School Application Tips
A quick overview and some tips based on my experience with The Data School Application
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