Ben Wells

Ben completed his Masters in Economics from Stockholm University in 2017. Unsure of a specific career path, he began his role as a Business Analyst at a digital healthcare start-up. It was here where he first encountered Tableau and data visualisation in a business environment.

While creating reports for external hospital staff members, he could sense that the static reports that were being sent to clients were scratching the surface of what was possible. Ben realised that visualising data had become the most fulfilling part of his role. Thinking forward into his own career he realised it was time specialise in the industry he was enjoying most. This is when Ben found the Data School, which seemed to be everything he was looking for!

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Fri 23 Aug 2019 | Ben Wells
Dashboardnale
Our last task for dashboard day was to use Uber data [https://movement.uber.com/explore/stockholm/travel-times/query?si=584&ti=1111&ag=basomrade&dt[tpb]=ALL_DAY&dt[wd;]=1,2,3,4,5,6,7&dt[dr][sd]=2018-12-01&dt[dr][ed]=2018-12-31&cd=&sa;=&sdn=&ta;=&tdn=&lng.=18.0699777&lat.=59.1727768&z.=9
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Thu 22 Aug 2019 | Ben Wells
Dashboard Week Day 4
Today’s task was to download Skiddle events data from their API [https://github
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Tue 20 Aug 2019 | Ben Wells
Dashboard Week - Day #2
Dashboard Week Day 2 Today’s task was to choose a city event from the Diamond League Athletics website, download the PDF, clean the data in Alteryx and create a viz. Downloading data from a PDF through Alteryx requires an R tool, which we needed to install some new packages into the R console
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Mon 19 Aug 2019 | Ben Wells
Dashboard Week Day #1
The task – to web scrape ASOS new in clothing for men and women. Problem #1 – Error: Download (1) Error transferring data: Failure when receiving data from the peer We had to trick ASOS to think that we were people and not scraping
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Sun 18 Aug 2019 | Ben Wells
Latitude and Longitude Values from Polygon in Alteryx
During an API refresher session we were looking at pulling data from the Police API [https://data.police.uk/docs/] using Alteryx
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Tue 06 Aug 2019 | Ben Wells
Scatter Plot Drill Down
Following on from my recent webinar [https://www.youtube
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Tue 09 Jul 2019 | Ben Wells
Ranking in Tableau Prep Builder
Unfortunately, there is no simple tool to rank values in Tableau Prep Builder but the Preppin’ Data Week 16 [https://preppindata.blogspot.com/2019/05/2019-week-16.html] solution makes this all possible! I have taken data of the life spans of animals [https://www.futurelearn
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Mon 17 Jun 2019 | Ben Wells
Set Actions: 'Exploding Bubble'
Last week we were introduced to set actions, which allow users to drill down into the data to another level of granularity. In our example we learnt how to do this for different categories in the view for a bar graph
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