About Colin
Colin is an expert at transforming complex business and research data into actionable insights that drive results.
As a certified Tableau Data Analyst, he specializes in creating insightful data visualizations that bring market research data to life.
Designing easy-to-use interactive dashboards to help you monitor your key performance indicators and make data-driven decisions.
Colin has extensive experience in market research survey design, data preparation, data analysis, visualization and reporting, enabling him to understand stakeholder opinion and translate it into meaningful insights. He creates visually compelling data stories to engage your audience and save you time when making critical business decisions.
He has successfully delivered numerous data visualization consultancy projects for a wide range of clients, including Local Government, national bodies, charities, research agencies, and data start-ups.
With a background in delivering Research and Intelligence to inform Local Government service planning and delivery, he brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to every project.
English
Native or bilingual
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- Datawoj LtdDirector | Data Visualization Consultant (Tableau)RESEARCHSeptember 2016 - Today (9 years and 9 months)Chester, UKResponsibilities:Lead on commercial business development including developing long term client relationships.Developing and promoting informative content on data visualization to market appropriate services and engage the data visualization community.Successfully project managed various research data visualization initiatives to achieve desired outcomes for clients.Achievements:Created an interactive data visualization using Tableau to display the outcomes of the 'Good Work Index' for a UK HR organization, resulting in over 30,000 views and promoting their research work.Developed Tableau dashboards to analyze marketing KPIs and visualize social media trends, significantly reducing reporting time for global charities and marketing agencies.Designed Tableau dashboards that demonstrate retail data insights, facilitating data startups in promoting their business intelligence services.Analyzed and visualized the results of online market research surveys, informing training evaluations, pay and reward benchmarking exercises, and identifying high-growth medical billing companies, to save research agencies time on reporting.Developed and delivered data visualization training and coaching workshops to enhance the skills of local government analysts and union researchers receiving excellent feedback.
- LARIA (Local Area Research and Intelligence Association)Council MemberJune 2019 - June 2021 (2 years)Chester, UKCouncil member of LARIA - supporting best practices in local area research and intelligence for evidence based decision making.
- Warrington Borough CouncilCustomer Insight Business PartnerPUBLIC SECTORJanuary 2012 - September 2016 (4 years and 8 months)Warrington, UKAs the Customer Insight manager, I led the delivery of a customer insight service, providing research insights to inform strategy, service delivery and organizational performance metrics.As the team leader of customer insight analysts, I was responsible for their personal development and performance.Acting as an internal business consultant, I worked effectively with teams across the organization to provide timely insights to identify opportunities in service design.Additionally, I managed community engagement projects, such as resident satisfaction surveys to inform service satisfaction measures.I developed a roadmap to create analytical products for the reporting of Census and demographic statistical data, supporting ad hoc data requests.Moreover, I managed a research program that informed Warrington Partnership's 'Closing the Gap' program, which underpinned community regeneration and welfare reforms.My expertise in research, data analysis and community engagement helped drive positive outcomes for both the organization and the community.
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Education
- Postgraduate Diploma, Regeneration for PractitionersUniversity of Chester2017Postgraduate Diploma, Regeneration for Practitioners
- Bachelor of ArtsLancaster University1997BA (Hons), Human Geography
Certifications
- Tableau Desktop SpecialistTableau2019
- Tableau Data AnalystTableau2022