After 4 years studying BSc Information Management and Business Studies at Loughborough University, Hafeez then dedicated 1.5 years to playing football Semi-Professionally. Not satisfied with solely playing football and with the growing importance of sports analytics; Hafeez decided to pursue a career within data and fortunately came across The Data School. Following 2 months consisting of numerous hours spent on Tableau, Hafeez immediately realised his passion for data analysis; prompting him to submit an application for the DS14 cohort.
Hafeez Sanusi
Blog Posts
Fri 21 Jun 2019 | Hafeez Sanusi
Dashboard Week - Day 5
The task for the final day of Dashboard week did not require any Data Prep and
was based on the History of Powerlifting
[https://www.kaggle.com/open-powerlifting/powerlifting-database/]. We had to
complete the task by 1pm and present our dashboards from yesterday and today to
DS15
Thu 20 Jun 2019 | Hafeez Sanusi
Dashboard Week - Day 4
For Day 4 of Dashboard Week we were tasked with looking at Candy Survey data
[https://www.scq.ubc.ca/so-much-candy-data-seriously/] between 2014-2017. Andy
stated that we could only use Tableau Prep Builder to clean our data and Tableau
Server’s Web Authoring function to build our visualisations
Tue 18 Jun 2019 | Hafeez Sanusi
Dashboard Week Day 2
Today really emphasised the ‘Urban Legends’ that are spoken about frequently in
regards to Dashboard week. We were tasked with using data from Historic UK
[https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/BattlefieldSites/]
which had information based on Battles within the UK
Tue 14 May 2019 | Hafeez Sanusi
Tableau Quick Tip - Displaying specific mark labels on a map
Today we were going through Tableau Advanced which featured various Level of
Detail Expressions (LOD’s) and Table Calculations. Whilst attempting various
tasks set by Andy; he demonstrated a quick trick that can be used to permanently
display specific labels on different areas of a map
Sun 28 Apr 2019 | Hafeez Sanusi
By Failing to Prepare, You are Preparing to Fail
Day 10 was project day and my key takeaway from the task was if you want to
deliver an effective and presentable dashboard within a limited time-frame; then
it is essential you plan!
The Task
In the morning we were all provided a data set which we had to access via a
database called Exasol
Tue 09 Apr 2019 | Hafeez Sanusi
My thoughts about The Data School
I’m new to the world of blogging and social media, however, there’s always a
first for everything! This post will begin with my initial thoughts prior to
starting my first day at The Data School and then will be capped off with my
thoughts after my first week within the office