Ian Baldwin

Ian has enjoyed playing with data pretty much since he’s been able to count. From reading football scores on Ceefax and scoring his brother’s cricket matches as a child he quickly picked up a habit of recalling scores and spotting patterns.

In recent years, whilst studying Engineering at university, he was drawn into football analytics spheres and discovered other members of the community creating really useful tools in Tableau Public. During this period Ian realised communicating information effectively is an art form and Tableau software recognises this putting data visualisation front and centre.

Ian has come to the Data School to learn from the best, help spread best practices and  inspire creativity in data visualisation.

Blog Posts

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Thu 05 Jan 2017 | Ian Baldwin
Spray Charts in Tableau
Spray charts are great for visualising change or movement in two dimensions. As an example, the cricket wagon wheel is a classic spray chart. Every shot starts at the batsman’s crease and finishes where the ball was fielded
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Thu 29 Dec 2016 | Ian Baldwin
Time Expectations - My big challenge at the Data School
We’ve been at the Data School for 12 weeks now and it’s been intense but wholly enjoyable so far
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Fri 28 Oct 2016 | Ian Baldwin
Preparing Spatial Data for Tableau
In my last post I talked about about spatial data in Alteryx and leveraging Alteryx to do spatial analytics. Now if we want to visualise spatial information in Tableau we need to re-organise our data to make it suitable for importing
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Fri 28 Oct 2016 | Ian Baldwin
Spatial Data in Alteryx
In my blog on data types [https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/ian-baldwin/field-data-types-alteryx/] I barely talked about spatial data for a sentence or two
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Wed 26 Oct 2016 | Ian Baldwin
Seeing Tables and Building Workflows
Knowing Your Target Over the last couple of days we’ve been through a ton of Alteryx exercises manipulating data from an input file to a given output format. Something I find absolutely key in these exercises is keeping an eye on the desired output format at all times
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Tue 25 Oct 2016 | Ian Baldwin
Field Data Types in Alteryx
In Alteryx data fields are assigned a field type that is then used consistently for every record in the data field. Field types largely fall into five categories which can then be explored further. Boolean Data Boolean data is the simplest possible form of data
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Thu 13 Oct 2016 | Ian Baldwin
Makeover Monday 20 - Global Warming Since the 1850s
On Tuesday we were tasked with our first Makeover Monday effort at the data school. We went back to Makeover Monday 20 to re-visualise a climate change animation by Ed Hawkins showing the change in global temperatures since 1850
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