Ellie Carter

Ellie graduated from the University of Bristol with a degree in Pharmacology. After graduating, she worked in London in the financial services sector for two years. Whilst she enjoyed being able to build and develop relationships with her clients, she missed working with data. Ellie was immediately drawn to the Data School program and the power of Tableau. She is excited about pursuing a career within data analytics and developing her Tableau skills further.

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Fri 25 Oct 2019 | Ellie Carter
Dashboard Week- Day 5
Fifth and final day of dashboard week consisted of using an API to get the data for Andy’s favourite TV show of all time………… Breaking Bad! Although I think we disappointed Andy slightly as only about 20% of DS16 have watched it
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Thu 24 Oct 2019 | Ellie Carter
Dashboard Week Day 4- No Tableau Day
Today’s challenge was to use a visualisation software that wasn’t Tableau to create a dashboard based on the complaints data from the FCC. I chose to have a go with Power BI today, which I actually found quite an enjoyable experience
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Wed 23 Oct 2019 | Ellie Carter
Dashboard Week- Day 3
So today’s challenge involved a little(!) bit of PDF scraping combined with survey data. The data set was from Harvard DataVerse and we had one table with all the data and then a separate PDF file containing the questions of the survey. The data was an electrical household survey in India
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Tue 22 Oct 2019 | Ellie Carter
Dashboard Week- Day 2
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Mon 21 Oct 2019 | Ellie Carter
Dashboard Week- Day 1 Survey Data
Dashboard week is FINALLY here! After the first day I can’t decide whether I am happy about that or not. Our challenge today was to download the data from Design Census 2019 using this link https://designcensus
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Tue 01 Oct 2019 | Ellie Carter
Tableau Server Repository- The Self-Data Maker
Week 8 of The Data School was all about building on our knowledge of Tableau Server and getting our heads around the PostgreSQL database
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Tue 24 Sep 2019 | Ellie Carter
Top 5 Tips to Succeeding in your First Client Project
1. Research company Before meeting the client on Monday morning, do a little research into the company over the weekend
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Thu 29 Aug 2019 | Ellie Carter
Joins, Union and Blending
On Day 1 of Week 4 of The Data School, we spent a hefty amount time trying to get to grips with the different ways you can link data that and how each of them work. Here is an overview of the four different types and how they appear in Tableau. 1
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Thu 08 Aug 2019 | Ellie Carter
Discrete vs Continuous
During our first couple of days as DS-ers we have been covering Tableau Fundamentals. For my first actual Tableau based blog post I am keeping it super simple with continuous vs discrete dates. The data I have given as an example shows sum of sales by quarter for each year
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Tue 06 Aug 2019 | Ellie Carter
DS16: Expectations
I think the application process for The Data School has given a small introduction as to what to expect from The Data School and life as a data consultant. These are my expectations after Day 1: 1. There will be things I won’t grasp immediately but there is no shame in asking questions 2
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