Conrad Wilson

After completed a master’s in chemistry focussing on white paint, Conrad wanted to add some colour to his working life. Having used high throughput engineering and modelling software to deliver six figure cost savings, he knew a career in data analysis was for him. It took the parts of science he loved, data manipulation and visualisation, and got rid of what he struggled with, hours of being stooped over in the lab.

He discovered Tableau whilst analysing statistics from the Great Britain u24 Ultimate Frisbee team and was blown away by its ease of use and functionality. Hungry to learn more, he applied for the data school and never looked back.

Conrad spends most of his spare time playing Ultimate Frisbee and with his team, Clapham Ultimate, has won the European Club Championships twice and has also represented Great Britain in the sport. He also enjoys baking, hiking and travelling.

Blog Posts

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Fri 02 Nov 2018 | Conrad Wilson
Dashboard Week Day 5- Flew too Close To The Sun Looking At Meteorites
Meteorite Data Andy tasked us with downloading data from NASA which was relatively straight forward. See my final visualisation here [https://public.tableau.com/profile/conrad
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Thu 01 Nov 2018 | Conrad Wilson
Dashboard Week Day Four- API's inside API's inside Alteryx Apps
Two API’s and App and A Dashboard Today saw us creating an Alteryx app allowing a user to select locations and the bike docking data surrounding that location would be returned. The Alteryx app interface is shown below. The user can select a radius around 5 different locations
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Wed 31 Oct 2018 | Conrad Wilson
Dashboard Day 3- Use Of The Road Network in North East England
The Brief We were tasked with downloading and visualising data regarding the traffic data from dft.gov.uk. I looked specifically at the North East of England. We learnt yesterday that when Andy says “Easy Enough?” never say yes
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Tue 30 Oct 2018 | Conrad Wilson
Dashboard Week Day 2- Visualising Weather Data
The Brief Having missed day one of dashboard week whilst on holiday I was keen to get stuck in. Andy briefed us from Ireland on the task. We were to obtain weather data from the National Centres for Environmental Information [https://www.ncdc.noaa
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Thu 25 Oct 2018 | Conrad Wilson
Dynamic Input in Alteryx
Why Is The Dynamic Input Tool Needed? Within organisations data is often collected and outputted into an excel sheet with tabs for each individual month. This produces an issue when inputting into Alteryx as you can only input one sheet at a time using the regular input tool
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Sat 20 Oct 2018 | Conrad Wilson
Translating Data In Alteryx With The Find And Replace Tool
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Wed 10 Oct 2018 | Conrad Wilson
Table Calculations in Tableau vs Alteryx
Background At first table calculations in Tableau are challenging to get your head around but are extremely useful. If you haven’t been exposed to them check out Andy Kriebel’s blog [http://www.vizwiz.com/2017/02/table-calcs.html] on setting them up
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Tue 09 Oct 2018 | Conrad Wilson
Filtering Hack in Tableau
Quickly Filter Data Filtering your data set lets you focus in on specific questions. However, dragging the filter to the filters card can be time consuming. Save clicks by following this quick hack. This example, Figure 1, shows the sum of profit for each state for the years 2010-13
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Tue 09 Oct 2018 | Conrad Wilson
Scraping a Web Page Part 1- Inspecting the HTML
Intro to the Blog Series A lot of information is stored on a Web page.  If there is a pinned map you can obtain spatial data. If there is an image you can obtain its URL link to download it. If there is a table you can find the data stored within. Web scraping allows us to obtain this data
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Thu 06 Sep 2018 | Conrad Wilson
Alteryx: Turn 3 tools into 1
Introduction I’m four weeks into learning Alteryx and if there’s one thing I have noticed it is this; there is usually a way to use one tool instead of a chunky three (or more) tool workflow you have hacked together
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Tue 04 Sep 2018 | Conrad Wilson
Creating User Input Calculations Using Parameters- Tableau Tips and Tricks
How Can Parameters be Used To Create User Input Calculations? User input calculations are a fun way to engage your user with a visualisation. Parameters can be used in Tableau to allow such user input. By manually changing the parameter, a calculation is altered resulting in the dashboard updating
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Thu 30 Aug 2018 | Conrad Wilson
Tips and Trips in Tableau- Action Filters
What Are Action Filters? Action filters allow higher levels of viz interactivity. By selecting a specific category the dashboard will be filtered to highlight that category. This is shown below. Figure 1 shows the default view of a dashboard
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Mon 20 Aug 2018 | Conrad Wilson
Tips and Tricks in Tableau- Sorting in Tableau
Intro to Tips and Tricks in Tableau I don’t know how to do a lot of things in Tableau, yet! I have already had several head scratching moments trying to make my Viz’s more appealing. I’ll sheepishly ask my colleagues for help and they will very patiently show me exactly how to do it
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Wed 15 Aug 2018 | Conrad Wilson
Board Games: How Does Price Affect Ranking?
Teaming Up After a day of set up, introductions and ping pong we spent day two of the data school getting to grips with Alteryx. We were split into pairs for the day, Kirsty and I came together to form team Teal
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