Fergus Smith

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

Blog Posts

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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. 1
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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
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Wed 29 Jun 2022 | Fergus Smith
Day 3 - Accessibility Day
Day 3 of dashboard week and day 2 of the Accessibility journey. Over half way, we're on the home straight now team
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Tue 28 Jun 2022 | Fergus Smith
Day 2 - Accessibility Taster
Dashboard week is underway and it is Day 2 already. Today we were tasked with developing an existing dashboard to be more user accessible. My task specifically was focused around a TIL official sales dashboard of licenses
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Tue 21 Jun 2022 | Fergus Smith
The Tableau Slang Glossary
A-Z
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Tue 21 Jun 2022 | Fergus Smith
Parameterized Heatmap
In this blog I'll guiding you step by step on how to create a heatmap which uses parameters to change the dimensions of the X and Y axis.
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Tue 14 Jun 2022 | Fergus Smith
Schedule Forecast: Alteryx Server
Schedule Forecast - Admin Interface within Alteryx Server/Gallery In this blog I will be introducing you to the schedule forecast page which is accessible through the admin interface within the Alteryx Server/Gallery
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Fri 20 May 2022 | Fergus Smith
How to apply User Filter for Tableau
In this tutorial I will be showing you how to apply a User Filter to a Tableau dashboard when signed into a Tableau Server. This is very useful when you are sharing a dashboard where there is sensitive or confidential data involved
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Tue 17 May 2022 | Fergus Smith
Spatial Alteryx: Buffer Tool
Trying to find an Alteryx spatial tool that hadn't been blogged by my colleague Robson was enough of a challenge in itself but we did it.
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Tue 10 May 2022 | Fergus Smith
You know the (Z)-score
What is a Z-score? A Z-score (Whether it be Zed or Zee is up to you) is a number that describes a value's relationship to the mean of a group of values. Z-score will be measured in terms of standard deviations from the mean
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Tue 05 Apr 2022 | Fergus Smith
Comparing years: Bar + Gantt
In this blog I will show you how to create a bar chart showing the current year of a measure (Sales) and then how to create Gantt lines overlaying the bar chart showing the figures from the year before.
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Tue 22 Mar 2022 | Fergus Smith
How to lose your V(lookup) plates
Well not quite, but a neat alternative in Alteryx to the Vlookup function used in Microsoft Excel
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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
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Wed 09 Mar 2022 | Fergus Smith
Day 1 - The first Alteryx fix
My data school training journey began with an action packed day learning the basics of Alteryx
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