Kirsty Fraser

Kirsty Fraser

Kirsty recently finished her degree in Mathematics at the University in Aberdeen.

In her final year, she discovered a passion for data and analytics after making a mathematical model which analysed the biases of voting behaviour in the Eurovision Song Contest. This experience encouraged her to pursue a career within data, she also wanted to use her passion for design and creativity. Through word of mouth, she eventually encountered Tableau and The Data School and the fantastic programme offered to aspiring data analysts, which turned out to be the perfect fit!

In her spare time, she plays guitar, piano and enjoys travelling. She once cycled from Vietnam to Cambodia to raise money for a children’s charity.

Blog Posts

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Wed 31 Oct 2018 | Kirsty Fraser
Dashboard Week, Day 3: The One Where Everyone Did a Map
Well, well, well, here we are at day 3! After presentations we set about working on the project which would hopefully be better than yesterd- oh wait we have to use Tableau version 8 this time!! Of course! The task was as follows: 1. Go on the Department for Transport Website. 2
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Tue 30 Oct 2018 | Kirsty Fraser
Dashboard Week, Day 2: Back to the Tableau Stone Age
Dashboard Week day 2!!! We began the morning by showing our work from the previous day to Andy who is currently living it up in Ireland
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Mon 29 Oct 2018 | Kirsty Fraser
Dashboard Week: Making a Profanity Cloud
Today marked the start of Dashboard Week. Andy called in and gave us our brief- this challenge intended to refresh our API knowledge. The API would be taken from FOAAS.com
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Tue 09 Oct 2018 | Kirsty Fraser
Dashboard Formatting Hack: Distribute Evenly
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Thu 04 Oct 2018 | Kirsty Fraser
Cheating with Number Formats: From Negative to Positive
Got some negative values but need them to be positive? Well, you’ve come to the right place! Here’s a step by step guide of how to get rid of that pesky negative sign using a little number formatting cheat. 1. Let’s introduce the data we want to change
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Thu 06 Sep 2018 | Kirsty Fraser
(LOD) Express(ion) Yourself!
This week was the beginning of the “Intermediate Tableau” section of our training. On Monday we learned all about servers from Andrew (@AndrewPick_TIL)
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Sun 02 Sep 2018 | Kirsty Fraser
House Prices, Petitions and Gelato
Week 3 at The Data School was the busiest yet! Since my last blog we had presentations at the end of week 2. We each selected a dataset which we then made into a complete visualisation by Friday lunchtime. I selected UK House Prices and restricted my dataset to focus only on areas of London
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Wed 22 Aug 2018 | Kirsty Fraser
Getting Arty and Makeover Monday
This week we’re focusing on Visual Analytics and how best to aestheticallyconvey information
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Sun 19 Aug 2018 | Kirsty Fraser
Spice Up Your Viz
On Friday we had to take our brand new Alteryx knowledge and revamp one of our old viz applications for The Data School. I decided to work on my first submission which analysed factors which influence smoking rates across different demographics
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Thu 16 Aug 2018 | Kirsty Fraser
Makeover Monday and More Alteryx
Day 4 began with presentations and feedback. We were asked to prepare tableaus for Makeover Monday which examined a dataset documenting the travels of TV chef, Anthony Bourdain. It was interesting to see everyone’s different interpretations of the data and distinct styles of visualisation
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Wed 15 Aug 2018 | Kirsty Fraser
DSX: The Beginning!
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