Jack Turner

Jack studied for a degree in German, Russian and Luxembourgish at Sheffield University which included a year abroad in Russia and Austria.

After graduating, his tested his linguistic skills in a B2B German-speaking job and then moved to Japan to teach English. He felt that he had something more to offer than languages so started teaching himself Python and learning more about data analysis. When he discovered Tableau he was amazed how intuitive is was and realised its power to transform the way businesses work with data.

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Mon 09 Mar 2020 | Jack Turner
Find Bordering Countries in Alteryx
Last week during a Dashboard week challenge about life expectancy around the world, I wanted to compare each country to its neighbours. As the data didn’t include which countries bordered each other, I had to find out using Alteryx
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Fri 06 Mar 2020 | Jack Turner
TGI Dashboard Friday
Today’s dashboard has come with the biggest time pressure this week. We’ve had to create a dashboard in just three hours. On the up side, the data was clean and pretty simple. It gives socio-economic measures about different countries over time, such as life expectancy
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Thu 05 Mar 2020 | Jack Turner
Day 4 of Dashboard Week: An End in Sight
For the first time this week, we’ve been able to get straight into Tableau with hardly any prep in Alteryx. This was pretty encouraging because if nothing else we’d have dashboards by 5pm
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Wed 04 Mar 2020 | Jack Turner
Third Day of Dashboard Week
I think that Dashboard week has finally broken me. This morning we were given the task to web scrape information about UNESCO world heritage sites from Wikipedia. We had to scrape a general overview table as well as tables for each individual country
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Tue 03 Mar 2020 | Jack Turner
Second Day of Dashboard Week
After a really tough first day of dashboard board week, we were rewarded with something a little kinder, pinball data. This time we actually had measures in the data
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Mon 02 Mar 2020 | Jack Turner
First day of Dashboard Week
To start off our week of building dashboards, we were given a big data challenge and by big data I mean 9gb of data. The first task was downloading it, which took 30 minutes in itself. While downloading the data, I took a look at the documentation
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Sun 02 Feb 2020 | Jack Turner
Making a Moving Average in Alteryx: Truncating Dates and Generating Rows
­­­This will be the first in a multiple part series where I look at the different data prep methods I used during a Friday project when I had to recreate a moving average Tableau table calculation using macros in Alteryx
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