Zak Saucede

Zak has spent the last decade working as a Performance Analyst across multiple sports — including canoe slalom, netball, football and tennis — delivering video and data analysis to coaches and athletes. Whilst at British Tennis, he worked with players competing on the ATP and WTA tour, who went on to win x17 tour titles and x1 Grand Slam, with three players achieving World Number 1 ranking.

Prior to joining the Data School, Zak held the position of Head of Analysis & Data Solutions in Skylab's Elite Performance Analysis division. In this role, he spearheaded a variety of Performance Analysis services encompassing Data Capture, Discovery & Audits and Performance Analysis projects aimed at addressing critical performance-related questions.

Zak enrolled at The Data School to explore data challenges across diverse industries and to enhance his proficiency in Tableau, Alteryx, PowerBI, and SQL. Since joining, he has actively contributed to projects spanning various sectors such as retail, wealth management, performance sport, property lending, social media marketing, debt repayment providers and the railway industry.

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Wed 06 Dec 2023 | Zak Saucede
Build a Bee Swarm Chart
A Bee Swarm Chart is a great visualisation and a nice alternative to a histogram when we want to show the distribution of data points. It can also be helpful to understand the quality of your data by seeing the variation of scores and whether the actual values or their distribution are expected
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Tue 05 Dec 2023 | Zak Saucede
Building a Polar Area Chart
Polar Area Charts, first used by Florence Nightingale in 1856, are a popular way to present data in sports data environments
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Fri 28 Jul 2023 | Zak Saucede
Dashboard Week - World Happiness Report
It's Friday again, it's Saturday, Sunday, what? Friday brings not only our final challenge of Dashboard week but the conclusion of DS39 Data School Training
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Thu 27 Jul 2023 | Zak Saucede
Dashboard Week - Eurovision
Day 4 already! Our Thursday challenge was to utilise a Kaggle dataset of the incredibly popular Eurovision song competition. Today's specific nuance: to build an explanatory report utilising Microsoft PowerBI, with any data preparation to be completed in PowerQuery
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Wed 26 Jul 2023 | Zak Saucede
Dashboard Week - NBA
Today's challenge was to call an API via balldontlie.io. The website had APIs for a range of data areas including Players, Teams, Games and Stats
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Tue 25 Jul 2023 | Zak Saucede
Lights, Camera, [No]Action
Day 2's Dashboard Week task was to download, process, prepare and visualise data from the website IMDb. The original files were .gz (gzipped) format so my first step started with downloading the data and then unzipping the files using 7-Zip File Manager. The output of the file was
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Mon 24 Jul 2023 | Zak Saucede
Accessibility - Keyboard-only Dashboards
This week is our final week of training, which means it's Dashboard Week! Day 1 began with a session from our colleague, Tara Robinson. The topic, building Accessible dashboards
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Mon 17 Apr 2023 | Zak Saucede
Calculated Fields: Aggregates
In Tableau we use Calculated Fields to create new measures and dimensions that do not exist in the original dataset. This is a very powerful tool and Tableau helps us by listing out the different options, depending on your specific calculation requirements
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Thu 13 Apr 2023 | Zak Saucede
Combined Sets & Drilling Down
When highlighting key metrics in your visualisation, you may need to group data based on specific criteria. This is where sets come in.
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Wed 05 Apr 2023 | Zak Saucede
Data Viz Principles
Considering design components as you build your dashboard will assist you in landing your message and enhancing your storytelling.
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Thu 06 Apr 2023 | Zak Saucede
Understanding Data Inputs & Outputs
Thursday brings our first Project as we work together in pairs to present on different stages of using Tableau Prep. Paired with my colleague Reshika, we look into Data Inputs and Outputs
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Thu 06 Apr 2023 | Zak Saucede
Cleaning Up With Prep
On Day 3 we began to navigate our way around Tableau Prep. Tableau Prep is software used to input, clean, pivot and output your data in preparation for your analysis in Tableau Desktop
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Tue 04 Apr 2023 | Zak Saucede
Doughnuts and Data
As we come to the end of Day 2 of DS39, its a quick chance to reflect on the very beginning of a new journey
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