Lily Unsworth

Lily has come from a background in Nursing, having spent the past two years in research where she witnessed first-hand the impact that data has on people’s lives. Understanding of the volume of data we now have access to and the insights to be gained from it, combined with a passion for communicating concepts in an accessible format, she wanted to apply this in a more creative and challenging environment.

She discovered data visualisation through a Meet Up and realised that it could provide everything she was looking for in a new career. Upon discovering the Data School, she started playing with Tableau for her application and enjoyed it so much, she knew she’d made the right decision to move into data analysis.

In the outside world Lily likes to try her hand at anything, from carpentry to floristry. She has a new-found interest in cycling, a rekindled love for swimming, and a strong desire to fuel them both with good food and wine.

Blog Posts

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Thu 08 Nov 2018 | Lily Unsworth
Using IF statements to change multiple words in a single row of data
#ThrowbackThursday to our first task during dashboard week. We needed to use the FOAAS API to download data and visualise it in Tableau
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Fri 02 Nov 2018 | Lily Unsworth
Dashboard Week, day 5: Striking sets
1000 meteorites + 4 hours + 2 new features = 1 final day. The data for today came from NASA [https://data.nasa.gov/Earth-Science/Meteorite-Landings-API/c2vx-j9ed] and looked at Meteorite landings for the last 1000 or so years
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Thu 01 Nov 2018 | Lily Unsworth
Dashboard Week, Day 4: Andy decides to make us ‘appy
Three down, two days to go and our task for Thursday was to create an app in Alteryx which allowed the user to specify five locations from the COORD Bike Sharing API [https://coord.co/quickstart/bike-share], then visualise the data in Tableau
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Wed 31 Oct 2018 | Lily Unsworth
Dashboard Week, Day 3: We Need To Talk about Tableau 8.
Andy didn’t call in to set us today’s task, instead it was through his blog [https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/andy-kriebel/ds10-dashboard-week-day-3/] post that he released the details of his plan. Turns out it was to make Tableau v9 look good, because today we worked in version 8
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Tue 30 Oct 2018 | Lily Unsworth
Dashboard Week, Day 2: Less haste, more speed.
For Tuesday’s task, Andy asked us to download and analyse daily summary weather observations from the National Weather Service’s Cooperative Observer Program [https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/land-based-station-data/land-based-datasets/cooperative-observer-network-coop]
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Mon 29 Oct 2018 | Lily Unsworth
Dashboard Week, Day 1: Off to an insulting start
Day one of the infamous dashboard week at the Data School. We’ve all heard about it, read about, had nightmares about it, and so we sat down somewhat apprehensively for the 9am call with Andy to give us the task for the day. Our mission was to use the FOAAS [https://foaas
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Sun 21 Oct 2018 | Lily Unsworth
Creating and adding custom shapes to your Tableau Repository
Recently I decided to spend some time creating a #VizForSocialGood [https://www.vizforsocialgood.com/] using the data on lions from the Kevin Richardson Foundation [https://kevinrichardsonfoundation.org/]
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Tue 09 Oct 2018 | Lily Unsworth
Web Scraping and APIs Part III: Web Scraping for dummies
Last time we discussed APIs [https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/lily-unsworth/web-scraping-and-apis-part-ii-whats-an-api-when-its-at-home/] , and what can be gained through using them. But what do you do if a website has no API? Don’t panic! You can just download the HTML from the site itself
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Sun 07 Oct 2018 | Lily Unsworth
Web scraping and APIs Part II: What’s an API when it’s at home?
Every time you access a website, you are sending a request to a server and that server then sends you back a response. That response is the HTML/CSS/JavaScript we talked about in Part I [https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/lily-unsworth/web-scraping-and-apis-part-i-what-even-is-the-internet/]
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Thu 04 Oct 2018 | Lily Unsworth
Web Scraping and APIs Part I: What even is the Internet?
The last few weeks in the Data School have seen us learning lots about APIs and web scrapping in Alteryx. I thought it might be useful to do a quick series introducing some of the concepts and discuss where and how they can be useful
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Thu 06 Sep 2018 | Lily Unsworth
Playing cupid: Filtering across data sources.
This week has focused on extending and improving our Tableau knowledge, firstly with learning some Tableau Server and then followed by with Tableau Intermediate training. With Andy busy interviewing for the next DS, he left us in the capable hands of Peter Silvester [https://twitter
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Thu 23 Aug 2018 | Lily Unsworth
These are a few of my (new) favourite things
A day and a half of Tableau fundamentals was what we were promised, and thanks to the speedy teaching style of Head Coach Kriebel, fun with a little bit of going mental was exactly what we got
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Wed 22 Aug 2018 | Lily Unsworth
Long live the Post-It™
Monday this week consisted of our session with Caroline Beavon [http://carolinebeavon.com/], who is a really engaging infographics wiz. Laptops away, we instead had crayons and Post-Its to work with
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Sat 18 Aug 2018 | Lily Unsworth
A Tale of Two Hex Maps
Week one in DSX was, for me, a short one. I had to miss days one and two, but hit the ground and attempted to run on Wednesday
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