Matty joined the Data School after graduating with a Maths degree from the University of Leeds where he was introduced to his first computer visualisations. The first memorable thing he coded was a Julia set, a type of fractal pattern that one needs a computer to see, and was struck by the possibility of combining mathematical and computational techniques to create work that could be done by neither field alone. After this he was hooked, and went on to create animations of planets in orbit and pendula in motion for his final year project. From here it wasn’t a big leap into data visualisation.
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Sun 23 Jan 2022 | Matty Sweet
The Beginner's Guide to Python in Tableau Prep Builder (Windows).
As a user of Tableau Prep Builder you now have the ability to use Python scripts to manipulate your data. This post will go through the steps needed connect Prep to a script sitting locally on your machine.
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Tue 09 Nov 2021 | Matty Sweet
How to Create Dynamically Sized Quantile Bins in Tableau
Splitting data into quantiles is often a useful way to examine the distribution
of data. This method shows a way to let the user freely change the width of
these quantile intervals, with no restriction on the number of intervals they
wish to split to