Lee Gibbons

Lee Gibbons

With an analytical mindset and background in both science and education, Lee has a passion for exploring new information, understanding it and helping others to do so as well.

Lee’s natural sciences and education background means that he has long been immersed in the gathering and interpretation of data as a necessary means of testing of hypotheses and identifying scientific trends.  However, he often found himself frustrated when it came to presenting and interpreting his findings – particularly when he needed to demonstrate a scientific concept to a group of disinterested students or succinctly visualise a concept for a scientific paper.  Lee found salvation when he discovered Tableau.  He quickly realised its potential as a tool for creating some unique and exciting visualisation, and its usefulness in engaging the attention of those seeking to understand and interpret new information.  Lee wants to expand his passion for Tableau into the world of business and has set out learn everything he can about Tableau and Alteryx so he can be well equipped to facilitate companies in making well-informed and evidence-based decisions.

Blog Posts

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Tue 22 Aug 2017 | Lee Gibbons
Managing Server User Filters With A Dedicated User File
User filters on Tableau server are an excellent way to control individual access to certain information. These filters may be applied to specific dimensions of data to produce a sub-sectioned table that only includes data associated with the user
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Mon 14 Aug 2017 | Lee Gibbons
Dashboard Week Day 4 – USDA Database: A Lesson in Data Scraping
Day 4 of dashboard week dawned and we were promised easier prep… Seemingly this was the case upon first look
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Thu 10 Aug 2017 | Lee Gibbons
Dashboard Week Day 3 – Transportation in San Francisco
Day 3 of hell week dashboard week is over and I must say it has been THE most challenging yet. Today’s topic was transportation data in different cities, see Andy’s blog [https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/andy-kriebel/ds6-dbw-d3/] for further details
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Tue 08 Aug 2017 | Lee Gibbons
Dashboard Week Day 2: Craft Beers of America
It’s day 2 of dizzying dashboard week and the topic for today was, ironically, the only thing that might get me through this – alcohol. Specifically, beer and wine. The group was split into either team beer or team wine
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Mon 07 Aug 2017 | Lee Gibbons
Dashboard Week Day 1: NBA Season Schedule
The infamous dashboard week is finally upon us DS6-ers and the pressure is on! For day 1 we were thrown into the deep end with NBA stats – check Andy’s blog [https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/andy-kriebel/ds6-dbw-d1/] for the full breakdown
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Thu 13 Jul 2017 | Lee Gibbons
How and why to apply constants to a workflow in Alteryx
The use of constants in an Alteryx workflow has the potential to save the user a great amount of time. Especially if a workflow is large and has a lot of variables of the same value that need to be changed –  perhaps if the workflow is recycled or is for testing
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Sun 09 Jul 2017 | Lee Gibbons
Understanding LODs and Set Hierarchies in Tableau
Often, over the course of The Data School, I would hear the term ‘LOD’ being thrown around and I would think to myself ‘what exactly are these, and what do they do?’ – I’d been intending to look into them but it kept being pushed aside
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Thu 29 Jun 2017 | Lee Gibbons
How to Zip your Workflow in Alteryx Designer
Ever wondered how to how to export your workflow as a zip file (.yxzp) so that you can easily share it with your colleagues? Well, look no further! But first, be sure to save –  it’s not possible to export an unsaved workflow
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Wed 28 Jun 2017 | Lee Gibbons
How to use tabcmd to Automate Login and Publish
Earlier this week I was given the following task: “Write me a little TABCMD script to publish a .twbx from my machine to a tableau online account” At only the start of Data School week 3, I had no idea what one of these was, let alone how to formulate one
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Wed 28 Jun 2017 | Lee Gibbons
Nice to Meet you Alteryx
Today marked the first day of DS6 Alteryx week (well, four days) and so introductions were in order. First impressions when opening this data cleansing software is a seemingly innocent looking dashboard that charms with its draggable tool icons
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Mon 26 Jun 2017 | Lee Gibbons
How to Ensure Visual Analytics Best Practices in Tableau
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler” – Albert Einstein. A quote that summarises the take-home message of Visual Analytics in Tableau. Here are some key points to keep in mind when designing visualisations
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Thu 22 Jun 2017 | Lee Gibbons
Application --> Remake --> Present
Roll forward to Thursday of Week 1… So, over the course of last week, I had learnt more about Tableau’s functionalities than I had in the period since I first discovered the software. Specifically, some new methods of arranging and visualising data via Andy’s coaching and exercises
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Tue 13 Jun 2017 | Lee Gibbons
DS6 Expectations, Reality and Goals
I’m new to the world of blogging, however I’m sure this will be the first of many, so here goes. In this first post I’ll run over my thoughts before and after day one and some of what I’d like to achieve
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