Gordon Hack

During his PhD in biochemistry at the Technische Universität München, Gordon developed a passion for slicing up data in different ways, discovering hidden trends and compiling narratives. However he became dissatisfied with the pace of biochemical research, due to the time required to obtain meaningful data from experiments.

This is why discovering Tableau and Alteryx at The Data School was a breath of fresh air for him, as the experiments became the analysis itself, and the time between rounds of innovation reduced to zero. In his spare time Gordon pursues art and graphic design, which he uses to creatively enhance his visualisation work.

Blog Posts

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Thu 10 Sep 2020 | Gordon Hack
Quick tip: publish a data source to Tableau Server
In order to collaborate effectively, maximise storage economy and standardise versions, it is good practice to publish data sources to Tableau Server
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Tue 04 Aug 2020 | Gordon Hack
Labelling Top N in a View with Rank Calculation
In this post I’ll show you a quick labelling method using the Rank table calculation, along with how to correctly configure the calc. I will use the sample superstore and to begin with would like to label the top three weeks in 2019 by sum(Sales) for each Region. 1
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Tue 23 Jun 2020 | Gordon Hack
Diverging Bar Chart With 'Dynamic' Fixed Axis
Diverging bar charts, also called butterfly charts, are a great way to visualise how a pair of categories varies by some measure. In this case we’re looking at how the ages of males and females vary across the population of a country
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Thu 11 Jun 2020 | Gordon Hack
Datetrunc, Datepart, Datename
When we drag a date field into the view in Tableau, it automatically gets transformed into one of three functions: DATETRUNC, DATEPART or DATENAME
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Tue 09 Jun 2020 | Gordon Hack
Combined Sets - Illustrated with Quadrants
This is a quick example to visually illustrate how sets overlap and can be combined to create combined sets. I’ll be using a sample car sales data set with average top speed (on rows) plotted against average sale price (on columns) for different car models (on detail)
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Tue 02 Jun 2020 | Gordon Hack
DS20: Locked Down But Starting Up
With the country having ground to a halt and the creeping summer heat intensifying the lockdown malaise, starting the twentieth cohort of The Data School was a breath of fresh air
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