Katie graduated with a first-class degree in Mathematics. Before joining The Data School in December 2021, she worked as a Mathematics teacher, a Data Analytics Recruitment Consultant, and most recently a Sales Manager in the hospitality sector. However, being a mathematical and logical person, she felt she needed a career that would challenge her analytically. During the pandemic, she had the chance to re-evaluate her career path, and spent her time studying and exploring Data Analytics. During this time she came across The Information Lab, which has proved to be the perfect opportunity to learn and develop into a career which she has always desired.
During all her placements, Katie has worked extensively with both Alteryx and Tableau, where she has gained experience in managing other team members and worked on a variety of projects that have developed new and existing Tableau & Alteryx skills. Alongside this, Katie has volunteered to lead Tableau Enablement training sessions for different clients.
Outside of work, Katie enjoys exploring new places, spending time with friends and running.
Katie Matkin
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Thu 31 Mar 2022 | Katie Matkin
Dashboard Week - Day 5 - London Marathon Runners
Today's task was to analyse London Marathon Runners from 2014-2021 - there's of
course a lot of participants so we had to use the first two letters of our
surname to narrow down the results. You can find the data here
https://www.tcslondonmarathon
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Thu 03 Mar 2022 | Katie Matkin
Embedding Dashboards on Salesforce (The Old Way)
There are a couple of different ways we can Embed a Dashboard on Salesforce. In
this blog I'm going to talk through what Lorna refers to as 'The Old Way' the do
this.
Before you start: publish your dashboard to Tableau Server and then Log in to
Salesforce.
In Salesforce
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Tue 22 Feb 2022 | Katie Matkin
PostgreSQL
"The PostgreSQL repository database that powers Server is a maze of confusing
tables and cryptic, often incomplete, data" (
https://github.com/tableau/community-tableau-server-insights)
We can use the different data sources to ask different questions about our
users, sites, activity etc etc
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Tue 15 Feb 2022 | Katie Matkin
Linear Regression Analysis in Tableau & Alteryx
What is Linear Regression Analysis?
Linear Regression Analysis is essentially finding a 'line of best fit'. The aim
is to find a linear relationship to describe the correlation between an
independant variable and a possible dependent variable
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Fri 17 Dec 2021 | Katie Matkin
Week 2 project - Makeover Monday
This week has been focused around Tableau and also taking a deeper look into
what makes a good viz. There are many things that should be considered, just to
name a few:
* Choosing the right chart types
* Formatting
* Colours
And many more... in short, we should try to keep things simple