Gheorghie Lang

Gheorghie Lang

Whilst searching for a career after studying mechanical engineering, Gheorghie stumbled upon The Data School. He soon realised that Tableau and Alteryx was a quick and easy solution to many of the problems he ran into through his years at university. His new career marries his love for clear data and engaging presentation – which isn’t always easy to find!

For his dissertation he worked with DairyCrest in achieving a world-first in creating fibrous whey protein and was the Chair of the Young Members Panel for IMechE Lincolnshire. He is excited to see what can be done with these new tools, from web scraping to geotagged data.

In his spare time, he enjoys the usual things like reading/watching Sci-Fi, Horror and Comedy, video games, the occasional comic (DC of course) and he also enjoys board games, but not monopoly – no one likes monopoly. Conrad was foolish enough to suggest bringing in a board game, so DSX might have some organised-board-game-fun in their future!

Blog Posts

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Fri 02 Nov 2018 | Gheorghie Lang
Dashboard Week Day 5: A notable anomaly in meteorite astronomy
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Thu 01 Nov 2018 | Gheorghie Lang
Dashboard Week Day 4: Alteryx Apps and APIs
I’m back! I’m still a bit ill but I’m back! Today we used the Coord Bike Sharing API to generate the locations of bike stations around chosen landmarks
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Tue 30 Oct 2018 | Gheorghie Lang
Dashboard Week Day 2: A cold and temperatures across the world
I am ill. Disgustingly ill. I went home early as the rest of DSX wanted me as far from them as possible. So all in all this might not be my best world, but I’m posting it up anyway! Andy gave us the task of visualising data from the National Weather Service’s Cooperative Observer Program
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Mon 29 Oct 2018 | Gheorghie Lang
Dashboard Week, Day 1: Fuck off. As a service.
Dashboard week has begun! And we are off to a strange start with the “Fuck Off As A Service” API. The FOAAS API is documented here [https://foaas.com/] and it essentially allows you to call the API to request a specific way to say “fuck off” with some customisation in there
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Thu 04 Oct 2018 | Gheorghie Lang
Unions and Joins - And then there was one
Unions and Joins are often made to sound far more complex than they actually are – I’ll do my best to not do that here… They are both ways to merge two data sources together, put simply, a union is adding to rows and a join is adding to fields. Unions So unions add rows
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Thu 06 Sep 2018 | Gheorghie Lang
Viz-ual Tips for Beginners
When I first started making vizzes I lacked direction. I didn’t really know to start and where to go or where to end up
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Wed 22 Aug 2018 | Gheorghie Lang
Learning Through Failure - Getting into the Data School
FAILURE IS IMPORTANT. I didn’t get into the data school in my first interview, and that’s not uncommon. Failure is a crucial part of life and even more importantly – learning
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Tue 21 Aug 2018 | Gheorghie Lang
How to: Custom icons with actions and tooltips
When I was applying for the data school I accidentally stumbled upon an intermediate technique to hide info, links and actions within custom icons
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Sat 18 Aug 2018 | Gheorghie Lang
Dates can go trunc themselves
At the end of last week DSX was tasked with remaking one of the vizzes that were submitted in application to the Data School. Off the top of my head, everyone chose their first viz as the latter one was always the better
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Thu 16 Aug 2018 | Gheorghie Lang
Makeover Monday 33: Bourdain around the world
This week’s Makeover Monday used data concerning the televised travel of the late Anthony Bourdain. I learnt early on in my MM career that I need to pare my initial vision down to something that is possible to create within the allotted hour
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Wed 15 Aug 2018 | Gheorghie Lang
My first week at DSX: Board games and Alteryx
Yesterday was my second day. Yesterday was when the work really began. In my wisdom I told Carl about an online database that I thought might be worth scraping and playing around with to make a dashboard. This was a mistake
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