Ross Killington

Ross joined The Information Lab / Data School looking for a career change after running a small Music & Events business for a number of years. In 2017 he graduated in Chemistry from Kingston University which involved daily involvement with data collection and analysis so he decided this would be a good opportunity to finally put those skills into practise.

TIL/DS has allowed Ross to build on this foundation knowledge and build a diverse skillset. The focus of this has been Alteryx and Tableau in which he has become proficient and acquired official certifications whilst some further skills are under construction such as Power BI  and SQL.

Ross thoroughly enjoys his work and has become passionate about the world of data, he is looking to grow and gain as wide a variety of skills as possible to be able to take on any challenge.

Blog Posts

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Fri 02 Jun 2023 | Ross Killington
Dashboard Week Day 4: Boy Band Data
For day 5 of dashboard we had only 3 hours so we were given a pretty straight forward task with a lot of creative freedom. We were given data for Boy Bands and their members over the last 40 years with details such as their chart positions, clothing styles and physical dimensions
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Thu 01 Jun 2023 | Ross Killington
Dashboard Week: Day 3 - NASA Iceberg Data
Day 3 we were set an interesting task where we were given a choice of NASA API's and instructed to pull data from an API of our choice and create an interactive dashboard with the data
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Wed 31 May 2023 | Ross Killington
Dashboard Week: Day 2 - Power BI
Welcome back to my series of dashboard week blogs. Today we were tasked with choosing from a selection of Tableau dashboards with the goal of recreating them in Power BI. I chose a gantt representation of BBC sports personality of the year winners and their respective career lengths by Lorna Brown
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Tue 30 May 2023 | Ross Killington
Dashboard week: Day 1
I not-so-brief overview of my first day of Dashboard work where we looked at police data for street crimes and stop & search.
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Mon 01 May 2023 | Ross Killington
Adding missing dates in Alteryx using the Generate Rows tool
In this blog I will demonstrate how to fill in missing date rows in a time series data set where you need at least a row for every date.
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Mon 01 May 2023 | Ross Killington
Making a custom distribution for mock data using Alteryx Tools
In this blog I will show you how to generate rows with a specific distribution set to your preferences. This process involves various Alteryx tools such as: Text Input, Summarize, Append, Formula, Generate Rows and Join.
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Mon 01 May 2023 | Ross Killington
Making a running total in Alteryx using the Multi-Row Formula Tool
This blog demonstrates step by step how to create a basic running total column in Alteryx using the Multi-Row Formula to carry out a row by row calculation where the current row value is added to the sum of the previous row values.
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Fri 21 Apr 2023 | Ross Killington
How to use the Fixed LOD tool in Tableau Prep
Preview: In this blog I will be showing you #howto make a simple Fixed LOD calculated field in Tableau Prep using the Fixed LOD tool.
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Wed 19 Apr 2023 | Ross Killington
Ranking in Tableau Prep
In this blog I will be explaining the features and uses of the rank tool in Tableau Prep.
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Sat 31 Dec 2022 | Ross Killington
Making Hexbin density maps in Tableau
In this blog I will be teaching you step by step how to produce the following Hexbin map using data for rat sightings in New York: The first thing you should do is create a parameter
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Fri 09 Dec 2022 | Ross Killington
How to make a bar-in-bar chart
In today's blog I'll be demonstrating how to make a bar-in-bar chart where you have 2 bars fused together with one overlaying the other to represent 2 values for the same dimension
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Wed 07 Dec 2022 | Ross Killington
How to create a density map with spatial data in Tableau
In this blog I'm going to demonstrate how to make a basic density map using spatial data in Tableau. For this example I will be using rat sighting data based in New York. My goal is to make a density map showing where rat sightings are the most frequent in New York
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Fri 18 Nov 2022 | Ross Killington
Improving the viz that got me into the Data School
Time for a game of 'Spot The Difference' as I take you through the changes I made to the viz that got me into the Data School back in August where I was given data on Shark Attacks in Australia.
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Fri 11 Nov 2022 | Ross Killington
Basic Aggregation on Alteryx
The Summarize tool is one of the most commonly used tools in Alteryx, this blog takes you through the basic functions of the Summarize tool with examples of what you can use it for.
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