Jacob Kilroy

Jacob graduated with a BSc in Biochemistry from King’s College London. Having decided not to pursue a career in research, he found work as a travel agent, dealing with both corporate accounts and leisure customers.

Having enjoyed his Bioinformatics modules in university, he pivoted towards a career in data via self study and the help of online courses, eventually finding himself at the Data School.

While at Paramount US, he developed a suite of PPM dashboards that provided project and CapEx reporting with a wide business reach. This involved optimising data models, implementing significant UI/UX changes and also developing a custom Tableau admin dashboard to track workbook usage and user activity.

At Aldermore Bank, he led the development of several Alteryx workflows that have automated manual processes, significantly improving business efficiency and data reliability.

During his time at Citeline, he was pivotal in the data migration and redevelopment of a series of commercial dashboards, with in-depth analysis of forecasted figures, drug details and epidemiology. Jacob also developed a spatial data dashboard which allowed clients to quickly identify optimal clinical trial sites.

His most recent client engagement was with Genomics England, where he was responsible for processing sensitve genomic data and building out a client-facing dashboard. This is being used to increase the visibility of available data assets and aiding the commercial team to onboard new clients.

Certifications

Blog Posts

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Fri 01 Apr 2022 | Jacob Kilroy
USA Interstate Traffic - Dashboard Week Final Day
Final day of dashboard week saw us visualizing US Interstate Traffic Data
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Thu 31 Mar 2022 | Jacob Kilroy
Webscraping London Marathon Results - Dashboard Week Day 4
Day 4 of Dashboard week had us webscrape the London Marathon Results.
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Wed 30 Mar 2022 | Jacob Kilroy
Dashboard Week Day 3 - Bike collisions in Seattle
Day 3 saw me build a dashboard based on bicycle traffic and collision data
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Tue 29 Mar 2022 | Jacob Kilroy
Dashboard Week Day 2 - Find Hot, Single Potholes in your Area!
Day 2 of dashboard week had us build a dashboard based on FixMyStreet Pothole data, with a focus on keeping things accessible
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Mon 28 Mar 2022 | Jacob Kilroy
Dashboard Week Day 1- New Orleans Police Bodycam Data
For day 1 of DS28's dashboard week, we built dashboards based on New Orleans Police Bodycam Data. My dashboard included inside
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Tue 15 Feb 2022 | Jacob Kilroy
API's & Alteryx: Fetching Historical Bitcoin Prices
In this blog I walk you through how to use API's to pull historical Bitcoin prices
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Thu 24 Feb 2022 | Jacob Kilroy
How to Clean Public Data with Tableau Prep Builder: UK Crime, Population & Poverty
There is plenty of public data provided by various governing bodies that you can access yourself. One such dataset is Crime reporting data, provided by https://data.police.uk/. However, this data does not always come in a format that makes for easy analysis with Tableau
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Tue 22 Feb 2022 | Jacob Kilroy
PostgreSQL - Looking under the hood of Tableau Server
In this blog, we have a quick look at PostgreSQL
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Tue 15 Feb 2022 | Jacob Kilroy
Understanding p-Values
In this blog, I go over what you need to know about p-values
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Fri 04 Feb 2022 | Jacob Kilroy
My Week as a Project Manager - Day 2 & 3
Day 2 & 3 have both been hectic days. On both days, we as a cohort had "Learn What the Data School Learns", which is where we teach the public some of the things we’ve learnt during our training
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Mon 31 Jan 2022 | Jacob Kilroy
My Week as a Project Manager - Day 1
Part of the Data School Curriculum involves each member of the cohort taking the role of Project Manager. This week DS28 will undertake our second client project and I am taking the roll of Project Manager
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Sun 02 Jan 2022 | Jacob Kilroy
Revisiting my Initial Application using Alteryx
In this blog I detail how I would have used Alteryx for my initial application viz
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Wed 29 Dec 2021 | Jacob Kilroy
Taking the Alteryx Designer Core Certificate
In this blog, I’ll recount my experience with the Alteryx Designer Core Certificate
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Thu 16 Dec 2021 | Jacob Kilroy
Critiquing a Makeover Monday Data Viz
In this blog post, I will review what's good and bad about a Makeover Monday Viz and suggest some possible improvements.
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Wed 15 Dec 2021 | Jacob Kilroy
Dynamic Date Reference Lines in Tableau
In this post I will walk you through how to create a dynamic date reference line in Tableau
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Mon 13 Dec 2021 | Jacob Kilroy
Date Filtering in Tableau
In this post, I walk through how to use date filters in Tableau
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