Quinn Serfass

Quinn is currently in his graduate program for business analytics at Temple University. He graduated with an undergraduate degree in marketing. Prior to his job at the data school, he was working at a local bike shop in Philadelphia doing a mix of photography, social media marketing and mechanic work. His first exposure to data analytics was in a class led by Josh Tapley, which taught us data visualization skills using Tableau!

Outside of the data school, Quinn loves climbing, cycling and an occasional run. Additionally, he enjoys music, video games, and doing graphic design.

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Fri 30 Sep 2022 | Quinn Serfass
Dashboard Week... Last Day: Boybands and Such :)
Today was the last day of training!!!!!! We were given a boybands data set which was a fun break from some of the more serious dashboards. This data didn't need any data prep so I did a relationship join on the two data sets (bands and the members)
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Thu 29 Sep 2022 | Quinn Serfass
Dashboard Week Day 4: I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger! (Breaking Bad duh) (I have never actually watched it)
Day 4! It has been a very interesting week but today we got a fun API! I had never watched Breaking Bad up to this point so this whole project was a giant spoiler. We started by extracting the API and parsing it through JSON
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Wed 28 Sep 2022 | Quinn Serfass
Dashboard Week Day 3: UK Crime Data API Madness
Today, the objective was to create an analytical app through Alteryx that was focused on UK Crime Data and then build a dashboard that could be directly loaded after using the app. There were 4 main components to the analytical app: 1
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Tue 27 Sep 2022 | Quinn Serfass
Dashboard Week Day 2: PowerBI vs Tableau - The Ultimate Visualization Tools
Today we took a surface-level look at PowerBI and how it can be used. In all honesty, they are very similar with some UI/UX differences but overall, achieve a similar dashboard quality
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Mon 26 Sep 2022 | Quinn Serfass
Dashboard Week Day 1: Accessibility in Tableau
After a great 4 months of training, we get to cap off our experience with a week of intensive dashboarding. Every day, we will be receiving a data set, prepping the data, visualizing the data, presenting our findings, and then writing a blog on our experience. So, today was our first day
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Mon 15 Aug 2022 | Quinn Serfass
Syntax Basics in SQL
Last week, we had the honor to learn from the one and only 2022 Iron Viz champion, Will Sutton. Today, I will be reflecting on some of the SQL things we learned. I will be mostly focusing on the syntax of a SQL query and potential outputs by queries
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Tue 14 Jun 2022 | Quinn Serfass
Tips and tricks for visual aesthetic
With the little graphic design experience that I have, I have some tips and tricks (along with some learning from Andy Kriebel) to offer when building out a dashboard. The best way I can describe visual aesthetic is through some best practices: 1
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