Tom Prowse

Tom graduated from Aston University with a BSc in Business & Computing, and then worked as an account manager for an ERP reseller. When speaking to his various clients, he realised how important data was to their businesses which prompted his career change into the data world.

Having never had much technical exposure, during his degree or working experience, he realised that The Data School was the perfect opportunity to get the kickstart his career with in the data industry with the best possible training in Tableau & Alteryx. During his time here, he is hoping to get the skills and ability to create analysis on a wide range of topics. He is especially keen on sports analytics, in particular his favourite team football team, Liverpool.

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Thu 20 Jun 2019 | Tom Prowse
Dashboard Week - Day 4 - Candy!
Today was day 4 of dashboard week and the roller-coaster continues! Yesterday was a good day, so today was due to be a tough one again. The task today was looking at the US Candy Hierarchy fromThe Science Quarterly Review [https://www.scq.ubc.ca/so-much-candy-data-seriously/]
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Wed 19 Jun 2019 | Tom Prowse
Dashboard Week - Day 3 - Solar System
Day 3 of dashboard week was up today, and I was hoping for better improvements compared to yesterday! Andy released the brief to us this morning, it involved using an API from Solar System OpenData [https://api.le-systeme-solaire
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Tue 18 Jun 2019 | Tom Prowse
Dashboard Day 2 - Historic Battles in the UK
Day 2 of Dashboard Week was upon me today and what can I say? Well it was a bit of a disaster! Our task was to web scrape the details from the Historic-uk [https://www.historic-uk.com/] website, for all the details relating to historic battles that have happened throughout the UK
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Mon 17 Jun 2019 | Tom Prowse
Dashboard Week Day 1 - UFO Sightings!
The first day of our dashboard week was all about UFO sightings from the National UFO Reporting Center Online Database [http://www.nuforc.org/webreports.html]. The task involved Web Scraping all of the UFO sightings from the webpage and then making a dashboard of our results
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Tue 11 Jun 2019 | Tom Prowse
4 Steps to Creating a Parameter
With the recent release of the new Tableau, there has been a lot of buzz around the new parameter action features
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Wed 29 May 2019 | Tom Prowse
MakePoint and MakeLine in Tableau
With the new release of Tableau, there have been a lot of new features to get everyone excited
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Wed 24 Apr 2019 | Tom Prowse
Tableau Prep Tip - Converting Bracketed Numbers to Negatives
The Problem Data files can come in lots of shapes, sizes, and formats. This is especially the case when working with numbers, as there are lots of ways to format a negative. Traditionally, in Excel, this is done by using a ‘-’, red text colour, and sometimes within brackets
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Wed 17 Apr 2019 | Tom Prowse
Tableau Server Organisation
Today at The Data School, we were learning all things Tableau Server. At first Tableau Server can be quite daunting as it can be a massive web of Sites, Projects, Workbooks, Data Sources, Flows & Views
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Wed 17 Apr 2019 | Tom Prowse
Using Parameters to Change Colours
Using parameters is a great way to improve your viz by allowing users to interact with your work and make their own choices about how they would like to explore the visualisation
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Tue 09 Apr 2019 | Tom Prowse
Project No. 1... The Reviz
Hello! I’m Tom and I’ve recently joined The Data School in DS14. I thought this would be a great time to reflect on my experiences from my first week and tell you a little bit about my first project on Friday. On Friday we were given our first project to complete
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