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.
Paul Hunt
Blog Posts
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
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
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
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
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
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