Niklas Kubus

Meet Niklas

He is a experienced data analyst proficient in tools for both data preparation and visualization aswell as programming with R or Python. He has a unique blend of expertise in working with dara, designing graphical elements for websites, writing about coffee brewing theory and nutritional science. He first encountered data analysis by creating a dashboard to track his athletic performance, incorporating embedded calculations to decide on his next workouts load. Since then, he dived head first into the world of data and started at completing a data analytics certificate from Google and created a sales dashboard for his former employer at a local coffee shop to put his abilities to the test. He's able to turn complex unstructured data into actionable insights and present them in a simple to understand manner. His passion for data and accuracy is matched by his commitment to collaboration, working closely with teams and clients to ensure insights lead to impactful actions. Outside of work, he stays active through boxing, running, and playing chess, bringing a disciplined and dynamic approach to both his profession and personal life.

Skills

Data Visualization Specific

  • Tableau

  • Power BI

Data Preparation Specific:

  • Alteryx

  • Tableau Prep

  • Power Query

Programming:

  • SQL

  • R

  • Python

Design:

  • Photoshop

Key competencies

  • Analytical mindset

  • Attention to detail

  • Effective and proactive communication

  • Quick comprehension

  • Project management

Data School Client Projects

System Technology Solutions Company

Designed a automatic reporting solution for federally required water temperature and flow rate statistics of a factory by creating of a Tableau Dashboard with printability and automatic alarms if specific values exceed legal limitations.

Marketplace Integration Service

Combined several streams of marketplace data into a unified Tableau dashboard to provide deeper insight into sales, orders, returns or product performances and a big picture overview available on the customers website with desktop and a phone view.

Energy Consulting Company

Developed a Tableau dashboard that displays several trend analysers for tariff prices of gas and electricity supply for companies to either preorder or purchase right away and for the client to do historical analyses at his speeches.

Furniture Delivery Company

Created a staff Tableau dashboard for all employees to see the overall companies progress in terms of operations and a general overview of the human resources.

Layed the foundation to generate insights from lots of long complex customer forms by delivering a Tableau dashboard highlighting strong- and weakpoints.

Federal Road Cleaning Service

Investigated the comparability of a human and a aritificial intelligence road cleanliness scoring system by aligning different spacial data in Alteryx and visualizing the findings with Tableau

Featured Work

  1. Resume Dashboard

  2. Coffee Shop Sales Dashboard

Certifications

Blog Posts

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Mon 09 Dec 2024 | Niklas Kubus
Learning Basic Python In 1 Week With Own GPT
After being told that I would have to use Python for an upcoming client project with no prior experience using it and only a single week left to prepare until the project's kickoff, I felt quite nervous at first. My initial idea was to scan the internet for free learning materials and exercises
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Wed 13 Nov 2024 | Niklas Kubus
A fun way to visualize BANs with set scales
Gauge charts are a popular way to visualize progress toward a goal or display performance levels that have set scales with a bottom and ceiling value, but you need to be cautious when including them on a customer dashboard due to some disadvantages
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Mon 02 Dec 2024 | Niklas Kubus
Dashboard Week: Personal Project
The final day of our Dashboard Week was occupied with the probably most fun and satisfying for the most of us - the Personal Project. In previous weeks, we already got the opportunity to work out things like the general idea, the source of data and first sketches in 3 houres summed up
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Mon 25 Nov 2024 | Niklas Kubus
Dashboard Week Day One
With the very soon end of the training phase of my cohort DSDE8, we enter int0 the very last stage, which is the Dashboard Week. Day one was about creating a visually pleasing personal resume for our Tableau Publich, which we can keep working and improving on for our whole visualization journey
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Mon 21 Oct 2024 | Niklas Kubus
How to use Sets in your Analysis
Sets in Tableau are a powerful feature that allow us analysts to segment data dynamically and interactively. This blog post will dive into everything you need to know about Sets, covering their creation, functionality, and use cases so you can use them with confidence
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Sun 17 Nov 2024 | Niklas Kubus
Entering into Power BI for Tableau Enthusiasts
Tableau is a pretty powerful visualization and dashboarding tool for us analysts and is pretty beloved here at The Information Lab, but not every client wants to use the same software as us and Microsofts Power BI seems to be on the rise
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Wed 06 Nov 2024 | Niklas Kubus
Easy way to add more analytical context to your KPIs
When we are working on making dashboards as impactful as possible, to truely support the executives making well thought out descicions in a faster and more precise manner, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) play an important role
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Tue 17 Sep 2024 | Niklas Kubus
Data Connectivity: Joins, Unions, and Relationships Explained
Why Connecting Data Matters: In today's data-driven world, analysts like us at the information lab often deal with multiple datasets coming from various sources. The data comes very rarely complete in isolation and usually needs to be connected in order to extract meaningful insights
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Mon 16 Sep 2024 | Niklas Kubus
Whats behind Gregorian and ISO-8601 formats?
I'm sure all Data Schoolers, that are not from the United States at least, have faced the same issue as me in Tableau regarding the week days at least once. I remember, I was trying to build a bar chart for a seasonal analysis
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