Nicholas Bowskill

Nicholas had always had a keen interest in numbers and how these could represent different idea and information. Following this interest, mixed with a love of problem solving, he completed an integrated Masters in Mathematics; whilst this started off very interesting he started to become concerned with how niche the studying was becoming and saw bigger problems in the world that needed to be solved. Searching for problem solving careers, Nicholas found data analytics to be very promising and The Information Lab to be the breath of fresh air he needed.

Nicholas has always enjoyed being out in nature, he spent most of his childhood involved in the Scouting movement including being a young leader. Whilst many of the opportunities for making pointy sticks and camping in the woods may have passed for now, his love of nature has never left, he still enjoys many outdoor activities such as hiking, canoeing and cycling. This love has left him with the goal of using his career to have a positive impact on the environment and hoping that the use of data can be his path to this goal.

Blog Posts

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Fri 01 Feb 2019 | Nicholas Bowskill
A Reflective Blog: Coming to the end of training
The Data School experience has been an amazing way to start my working career
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Sun 20 Jan 2019 | Nicholas Bowskill
Alteryx Core Exam Tips
The Alteryx Core exam is a very good way to test your Alteryx skills and also learn some new information that would usually be glossed over. The exam can be registered for here [https://community.alteryx
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Sat 19 Jan 2019 | Nicholas Bowskill
Tableau QA Revision Tips
Tableau QA Exam Tips The Tableau QA Exam can be a little intimidating, but there are lots of resources out there from the community and Tableau itself to help you pass the certification. Here I will go through some of the things I found most useful in preparing for the exam
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Tue 08 Jan 2019 | Nicholas Bowskill
Running Sum and Moving Average in SQL
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Wed 02 Jan 2019 | Nicholas Bowskill
Calculating Amount of Days from First Entry
In this blog we will use an LOD to calculate the first entry date of purchase of products in the Superstore data set and then use this LOD to calculate the running sum of sales over amount of days after the first sale
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Mon 24 Dec 2018 | Nicholas Bowskill
Dashboard Week - A Summary
It is the start of the week after dashboard week, this new week is one of festive joy rather than anticipation for what curve balls Andy could throw at us. During these moments of calm, I wanted to reflect on what I have learnt from last week’s madness
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Sun 23 Dec 2018 | Nicholas Bowskill
Dashboard Week Day 5 - Boy bands! Backstreet's Back
The blog comes to you a few days late, Friday was a blur of a day in which I did not get to write this post. But here it is, the final day of dashboard week, the boys and the bands, a dashboard all about boy bands, their members and accomplishments
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Thu 20 Dec 2018 | Nicholas Bowskill
Dashboard Week Day 4 - Bicycles in Seattle
Once again we started off the day by presenting our dashboards from the previous days, everyone got to proudly show off their Power BI creations! I showed off my dash about where the foreign monetary gifts were coming from and going to. ( https://app.powerbi
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Wed 19 Dec 2018 | Nicholas Bowskill
Dashboard Week Day 3 - Using Power BI!
Once again we start our day by presenting our visualisations we made the day before. I was happy to present my radial charts and get a little feedback from Andy about colour and lay out, if you’d like to look over it and give feedback the link is here: https://public.tableau.com/profile/nicholas
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Tue 18 Dec 2018 | Nicholas Bowskill
Dashboard Week Day 2 - NOPD Body Camera Data
We start the day off by presenting our dashboard made on Day 1, so amongst some very nice looking dashboards I presented the awful and crude Trump Tower plowing dashboard… ( https://public.tableau.com/profile/nicholas
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Mon 17 Dec 2018 | Nicholas Bowskill
Dashboard Week Day 1 - NYC Snowplough (plow) Data
Before the rush of doing things I start the day by not really knowing what’s going on…. The tiredness of the Monday morning mixed with being hit with a 253 million dataset that we need to import to Exasol before being able to use it has gotten me a little confused
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Sat 15 Dec 2018 | Nicholas Bowskill
How to Create New Users as an Admin in Alteryx Server
Admins on Alteryx Server have the ability to create new users and to set what permissions they have
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Wed 28 Nov 2018 | Nicholas Bowskill
An Overview of Webscraping using Alteryx
Webscraping can be a very powerful tool. It allows users to ‘scrape’ a website for the public data displayed on the site. Rather than having to manually note down figures or words on the site, software tools can be used to pull this data from the page source code and sort it into a usable format
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Tue 20 Nov 2018 | Nicholas Bowskill
Testing Alteryx Predictive Models against each other
Predictive models, or a variation of machine learning, can be very powerful tools in data analytics as they can provide calculated and weighted answers to questions which would be otherwise estimated
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Sat 10 Nov 2018 | Nicholas Bowskill
Merging Tricky Sheets in Alteryx and Tableau Prep
Tableau Prep is very user friendly and easy to use, but Alteryx has a much wider range of tools it can use in data preparation
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Tue 06 Nov 2018 | Nicholas Bowskill
A Macro Breakdown
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Mon 05 Nov 2018 | Nicholas Bowskill
How Alteryx can solve functions with an Iterative Macro (plus a bit of a maths lesson...)
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Tue 30 Oct 2018 | Nicholas Bowskill
Your Year in a Radial Graph
A radial graph is a graph rotating around the axis like a clock face. I took inspiration from Mina’s Clock Chart blog (/mina-ozgen/make-clock-chart/) [https://www.thedataschool.co
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Tue 16 Oct 2018 | Nicholas Bowskill
Making a group in Tableau
Grouping different items within a dimension can be very useful if you need to colour certain items, sum groups of items together or follow different item groups. We will start with the Sample Superstore dataset (downloadable here: https://community.tableau
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Sun 14 Oct 2018 | Nicholas Bowskill
Introducing ourselves at the Data School
We’ve come to the end of our first week of DS11! We’ve learnt a lot, about the company and the software, and started to get to know each other, hopefully the start of some good friendships and support for our journey through the Data School
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Tue 09 Oct 2018 | Nicholas Bowskill
Attempting to use Alteryx - With no experience of using Alteryx!
On our second day of DS11 we got stuck in to our first experience of Alteryx. After showing us the logical clean up of a simple Excel sheet which included the use of an ‘if then’ statement, using a filter and transposing a set of rows, Carl decided to have a little ‘fun’…
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