Will Griffiths

Will Griffiths

Will became interested in data analysis whilst at University, especially when having to visualise data on a weekly basis for various business presentations.

As a keen user of Football Manager (1000+ hours!), Will is subject to large datasets both in a professional and personal environment, making sense of this data is a key to success in both fields.

Will has worked in Digital Marketing, an environment where Excel pie charts reign supreme and is looking to the Data School to guide him down the path of redemption.

He enjoys playing many sports, including Ultimate Frisbee, Tennis, Football and many more. Watching football is a big passion of Will’s and he hopes to see Tottenham Hotspur win the title soon!

Blog Posts

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Thu 02 Mar 2017 | Will Griffiths
My First Placement – A Personal Journey
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Mon 08 Aug 2016 | Will Griffiths
Table Calculations in Tableau: Running Total
Running Total is probably the most used Table Calculation in Tableau. It is used to calculate a cumulative total of a measure across a specific dimension or table structure
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Thu 07 Jul 2016 | Will Griffiths
Using Explorer Boxes in Alteryx
Time for a really quick tip in Alteryx focusing on the “Explorer Box” tool. If you find yourself bringing different bits of data from a certain folder then you can create a dynamic view of that folder right within Alteryx and then just drag in the files that you want to use
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Wed 06 Jul 2016 | Will Griffiths
Creating a Voronoi diagram in Alteryx
In mathematics, a Voronoi diagram is a partitioning of a plane into regions based on distance to points in a specific subset of the plane
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Tue 05 Jul 2016 | Will Griffiths
Alteryx Quick Tip: Using Summarize with Spatial Objects
One of the best tips I found out when working on our client project last week as the ability to alter spatial object using the Summarize tool. The Summarize tool has five different spatial processes that you can run on your spatial objects
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Mon 04 Jul 2016 | Will Griffiths
An Introduction to my Iterative Macro
Last week as part of our client project I had to use an iterative macro for the first time to solve a problem that the client was facing
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Tue 14 Jun 2016 | Will Griffiths
MakeoverMonday - Multigraphing
So for this week we were challenged to do #MakeoverMonday with the rest of the attendees at the Tableau Conference. We were given just an hour to analysis the data, form our ideas and complete the viz. I failed. I couldn’t think of any coherent ideas within the time constraints
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Tue 14 Jun 2016 | Will Griffiths
TableauTip Tuesday - Colouring Custom Shapes
For my quick Tableau Tip this Tuesday I will be showing you how to colour your custom shapes based on another category/variable. First of all build your chart that will contain your custom shapes. For this example I am going to be using my previously mentioned data from Netflix
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Fri 10 Jun 2016 | Will Griffiths
Comments and Containers in Alteryx - Making sense of your workflow
Comments and Containers are an essential part of your workflow if anyone apart from the creator will be looking at or using the workflow. First of all, we will touch on the most important of the two, Containers
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Thu 09 Jun 2016 | Will Griffiths
Finding Netflix films using Alteryx
One of our projects a couple of weeks ago was to create an Alteryx app of our choice that would bring in data from an external API and create an output in Tableau. My idea for this project was to connect to the NetflixRoulette API [http://netflixroulette
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Wed 08 Jun 2016 | Will Griffiths
Creating a Butterfly Chart in Tableau
In this short tutorial I will be guiding you through the steps needed to create what I like to refer as a “Butterfly Chart”, which is in essence two bar charts on either side of the same y-axis. The data we are using for this is from the public NHS data that we have been looking at this week
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Tue 07 Jun 2016 | Will Griffiths
Using Alteryx to create an NHS Hierarchy
For our project this week we are looking at public data regarding the NHS. One of the key bits of information they wanted to look at was the data by Lower Layer Super Output Area. A Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) is a geographic area
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Tue 07 Jun 2016 | Will Griffiths
Golden Rules for Great Business Charts by Laszlo Zsom : Book Review
For my book review this week I decided to do it on “Golden Rules for Great Business Charts” by Laszlo Zsom, an essential read for anyone starting in the world of data visualisation. The preface of the book is to give the readers a top level guide into data visualisation best practice
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Mon 06 Jun 2016 | Will Griffiths
Finding the best burrito in San Diego
For my “viz at home” this week I found an interesting dataset all to with a 10 dimensional burrito rating system in San Diego
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Thu 19 May 2016 | Will Griffiths
Raining Maps and Dogs
When I applied for the Data School and got stuck into Tableau I knew that the mapping features would be something that I would always be drawn to
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