Theo Isaac

Having quit his previous editorial role to travel for 5 months, on his return he decided to apply to the Data School. Having only ever used Excel and R programming language for data visualisation, learning Tableau during the application process showed him how powerful a software it was.

His interests include Tennis, football, ultimate frisbee and environmental conservation.

Blog Posts

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Sat 21 Mar 2020 | Theo Isaac
Quick, Easy Tips to Speed up Your Alteryx Workflow
In our penultimate week of training at the Data School, DS18 and I had a great session with Dan Farmer regarding how to test Alteryx workflow, check their performance and how to troubleshoot both our workflows and macros
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Fri 06 Mar 2020 | Theo Isaac
Dashboard Week Day 5 - It's Finally Over!
So dashboard week has come to an end, and i approximate these 5 days have aged me around 20 years. Today’s data set was from Gapminder and contained data on, birth rates, life expectancy, C02 emissions, child mortality and income
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Thu 05 Mar 2020 | Theo Isaac
Dashboard Week Day 4 - The Finish Line is Near
Day four provided us with a chance to practice our dash-boarding skills, which was a welcome reprieve from the data-prep-heavy week we have had so far
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Wed 04 Mar 2020 | Theo Isaac
Dashboard Week Day 3 - Web Scraping and Power BI
Day 3 of dashboard week required us to web scrape data from Wikipedia to collect a list of UNESCO heritage sites and their associated countries. We were then required to visualise this data in Power BI. Easy right? Of all the days of dashboard week, web scraping was the day i feared the most
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Tue 03 Mar 2020 | Theo Isaac
Dashboard week day 2 - dropping the (pin)ball
So as that awful title maybe gave away, day 2 of dashboard week hit me pretty hard. Today was looking at pinball data which we needed to download from Pinball Maps API. It all started fairly well, with my API requests going through and managing to download the data sets i wanted
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Mon 02 Mar 2020 | Theo Isaac
Dashboard Week Day 1 - Looking at data from the Environmental Protection Agency
via GIPHY [https://giphy.com/gifs/christmas-3P0oEX5oTmrkY] Dashboard week kicked off today with a dataset from the Environmental Protection Agency. The data contained information on US state facilities, their associated environmental permits, industry types and much more
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Tue 21 Jan 2020 | Theo Isaac
How To Customize Your Alteryx Macro Icon
Today DS18 received their first training on Macros in Alteryx. This is a challenging topic and has several concepts that are difficult to wrap your head round. One fairly simple thing I did take away was how to customize the macro tool
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Tue 24 Dec 2019 | Theo Isaac
Friday Project Woes
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Sat 14 Dec 2019 | Theo Isaac
Preppin’ Data Solutions in Alteryx: Week 6
For my first blog, I thought it would be interesting to describe how my mind worked at the very start of my Alteryx journey, in addition to providing mine and my fellow DS18 member Angelos’ workflow
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