George Walker

George Walker

George’s previous career as a management consultant exposed him to the impact accessible data can have on an organisation’s strategy and operations. He enjoyed the data discovery and analysis part of his role so much he decided to leave the rest of it behind to join the Data School.

George discovered Tableau through his application to the Data School and was immediately excited by the ease of use and the speed to insight it enabled. He is looking forward to combining his focus on excellent client service with his new skills with Tableau and Alteryx to provide actionable data insights to his clients.

In his downtime you can find George at playing board games at the pub, kitesurfing at the beach or skiing on the slopes.

Blog Posts

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Thu 14 Dec 2017 | George Walker
Dashboard Week Day 4 - CHEESE
Ok, so I may have been a little hasty in saying Andy has gone soft, he gave us a tricky one today. The task for today – CHEESE We were given a website – https://cheese.com/ and told to scrape the data from it. This proved to be a little bit challenging
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Thu 14 Dec 2017 | George Walker
Dashboard Week Day 3 - Data School Blog Google Analytics
Day 3 of dashboard week and its Google Analytics and the Data School Blog I’m not saying Andy is getting soft, but we had already started looking at this last week, so part of the data prep (getting a list of all blog posts on the site) had already been done
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Wed 13 Dec 2017 | George Walker
Dashboard Week Day 2 - Romantic partner preferences
Day 2 of dashboard week beckons, after a challenging start yesterday I’m on more familiar ground here. The dataset for today was from YouGov [https://yougov.co
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Tue 12 Dec 2017 | George Walker
Dashboard Week Day 1 - Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance
The 6Ps above are words to live by, especially in dashboard week. Unfortunately I (re)learned that the hard way today. Day 1’s task was to look at the the American Housing Survey 2015 [https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/ahs
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Fri 17 Nov 2017 | George Walker
Tableau Server Custom Admin Views - Popular and Recently Accessed Content
Along with the rest of the Data School I’ve been looking at the PostgresSQL database in Tableau Server to help server admins understand what is going on in their deployment
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Wed 08 Nov 2017 | George Walker
My first time project managing a group of analysts
Last week was the  first week of client projects at the data school. I bravely/foolhardily volunteered to be the first project manager for the team. We are using a scrum style project management methodology, breaking tasks up into chunks and iterating quickly on them
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Fri 20 Oct 2017 | George Walker
DS7 Tip Week - how to put you axis at the top of your chart
This was going to be a tip on how to format my bump chart I’ve been building [https://www.thedataschool.co
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Thu 19 Oct 2017 | George Walker
DS7 Tip Week - Creating a bump chart
In my last blog [https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/george-walker/ds7-tip-week-preparing-data-tableau/]I cleaned up the data that we are going to use for my bump chart – now I’ll take you through how to make it
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Wed 18 Oct 2017 | George Walker
DS7 Tip Week - Preparing data in Tableau
I’m going to take you through how to recreate this rather lovely chart of state population on the left from Vox (click to enlarge). [https://www.vox.com/2015/8/12/9132953/state-population-rank] But first we need to get the data into Tableau in a format we can use
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Tue 17 Oct 2017 | George Walker
DS7 Tip Week - Adding a dot to highlight the end of a line chart
Line charts are a great tool to quickly see trends over time However you might want to add a an add a coloured dot at the end of the line to display e.g the most recent profit ratio. To create the dot you’ll need to create a calculated field
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Mon 16 Oct 2017 | George Walker
DS7 Tip Week - Pause
Ever had this happen when you are trying to build a view while working on a massive dataset? Sometimes Tableau can take ages to construct a view, this can be a pain when you are being experimental or make a mistake when dragging the pills around. Fear not
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Sat 14 Oct 2017 | George Walker
My first Data School dashboard - How does household income vary along London bus routes?
So after swanning around in the USA for 2 weeks I started my time at the Data School – a week after everyone else. Thankfully on day 1 I didn’t feel too far behind as we learnt the basics of Alteryx, something that not many of us had used before
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