Paul Hunt

Whilst Paul was studying for a Maths degree at Cardiff, he naturally drifted towards the more statistical modules. After finding that statistics could be related to sport, he became interested in data analytics and its application to his hobbies. Wanting to develop some more technical skills, he completed an MSc in data science at the same university, writing a dissertation on player recruitment in football. He spent a year working in the education department of the Welsh Government where he developed a love for data visualisation and applied to the Data School.

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Thu 23 May 2019 | Paul Hunt
Open and close containers using a toggle button
With the official launch of the 2019.2 Tableau update yesterday, we now have access to some shiny new features. Most hype has been reserved, quite rightly so, for parameter actions
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Tue 21 May 2019 | Paul Hunt
Changing images using a filter
Ever wanted to swap between static images on your dashboard with a click of a filter button? well here’s how, by using the background image option of a worksheet. Step 1 Create new calculated fields for both your x and y axes by just entering the value of 1
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Wed 01 May 2019 | Paul Hunt
Dashboard Week: NO TABLEAU
Today was dashboard week day 3, or maybe day 4 (according to Hania), but technically day 2 (for me), taking place the week after dashboard week. Get your head around that one. Our task was set by Sophie who wanted us to dive into baby name data for England and Wales
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Thu 25 Apr 2019 | Paul Hunt
Dashboard Week: Avengers
What is supposed to be Dashboard Week day 4 is in fact my day 1. Monday was a holiday of the bank variety, Tuesday I had a date with dentistry, and Wednesday was an impromptu stats 101 with Beth
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Wed 20 Mar 2019 | Paul Hunt
Inspect specific HTML source code in a browser when web scraping
This past week Carl has been on holiday and Andy has been baking pretty much full-time, so Dan Farmer (@danfarmerTIL [https://twitter.com/danfarmerTIL]) has been teaching us some spatial stuff in Tableau & Mapbox as well as some Alteryx data prep & web scraping techniques
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Tue 19 Mar 2019 | Paul Hunt
Insert a hyperlink onto your dashboard
A simple task that takes a few more steps than maybe you’d think in Tableau. Shout out to Eva Murray (@TriMyData [https://twitter.com/trimydata]) for this technique. Step 1 Create a calculated field containing the text you want to be clickable
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Sun 10 Mar 2019 | Paul Hunt
Conditionally coloured tooltip text
Imagine we’re looking at the profit of a company, say Superstore, across different states. Some states make profit and some make a loss, as illustrated in the chart below. The bars representing each state are coloured gold if they make profit, and grey if they make a loss
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Mon 04 Mar 2019 | Paul Hunt
Filter a published dashboard by editing the URL
Filtering is a very common feature of dashboards, particularly those which are explorative in nature.  It’s a great technique that allows the user to take a closer look at specifically selected segments of the data
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Tue 26 Feb 2019 | Paul Hunt
User information icons
Most Tableau dashboards include interactivity features which allow the user to click on things in order to explore the presented data and visualisations further. When you’ve made a dashboard yourself, you know the features of it like the back of your hand. Your users however, do not
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Wed 20 Feb 2019 | Paul Hunt
Shall we just put a line under it?
I’m going to show you how to put lines on your dashboard. Reference lines? No. Axis lines? No. Row/column dividing lines? No. I’m talking about straight up (or across) lines, whose purpose is entirely aesthetic
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Thu 14 Feb 2019 | Paul Hunt
How to make a barbell chart
Dot plots are a nice and simple way to visualise two (or more) values across different categories
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Thu 07 Feb 2019 | Paul Hunt
Triskaidekaphobia
Hey everyone, my name’s Paul and I make up one ninth of the new Data School cohort. I’ve spent my whole life feeding my vague irrational fear of the number 13
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