Fergus graduated from the University of the West of England in 2019 with an Economics degree. During and post his degree he has gained experience in several different industries, ranging from defence to wine and also car manufacturing. Drawing upon his past experience of analysing data in various roles, and as part of his degree, he decided to pursue a career in data. Tableau particularly appealed to Fergus as it incorporates a more creative and practical approach to analysing and visualising data.
He is an advanced user of Alteryx and Tableau and during his time at the Data School, he has worked for various clients in a number of different industries. After many client interactions he has been on longer term placements at PwC and BAE Systems.
Such skills include but are not limited to:
- Leading advanced training sessions in Alteryx
- Financial reporting reconciliations using Alteryx & PowerBI
- Webscraping & Connecting to APIs
- Extensive Tableau Dashboarding in finance and marketing projects
- Tableau Server permissions & folder management
Certifications:
- Alteryx Advanced Certificate
Other:
1x Tableau Viz Of The Day
Fergus Smith
Blog Posts
Thu 07 Mar 2024 | Fergus Smith
Pipeline Power: Drive Sales Success with PowerBI
The sales pipeline dashboard serves as a vital tool for businesses and individuals to oversee pipeline activity and opportunity progression. Catering to the needs of both management and sales representatives, it offers comprehensive insights using various chart types and metrics.
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Thu 30 Jun 2022 | Fergus Smith
Day 4 - San Francisco KPI challenge
Today's dashboard challenge was to design an exceptional KPI dashboard. The dataset we were given was about rent prices in San Francisco.
I set out to build an exploratory dashboard with meaningful KPIs, giving the users quick insights to the important summaries of the data
Tue 15 Mar 2022 | Fergus Smith
Tasty Tableau: Lollipop Charts
How to create lollipop charts in Tableau
Lollipop charts are a great way to spruce up your regular bar chart in Tableau.
By making your graphs more eye-catching your audience will hopefully be more
drawn to what you are trying to show with your data