Joss comes from a background in life sciences, attaining First Class Honours in Microbiology from the University of Glasgow. He then pursued doctoral research at the University of Reading in collaboration with a start-up. During this project, he built a bioinformatics pipeline to identify resistance genes. This work strongly involved R, which he used to transform and create visualisations of data.
Throughout his doctoral studies, Joss developed a passion for the communication of data. He frequently presented his research on antimicrobial resistance, tailoring his delivery for diverse audiences. This ranged from technical presentations at national and international scientific conferences to accessible lectures for the general public and local interest groups on topics such as gene editing.
As a data consultant he has worked in teams that:
Identified price outliers in the data of a UK manufacturing company using Tableau, enabling them to improve profitability.
Created sports analytics visualisations in PowerBI showcasing player development for a premier league football club.
Optimised the performance of Tableau workbooks for a major online media company, improving dashboard speed by over 50%.
Automated reporting for a UK lifestyle products brand by accessing the Shopify API with Alteryx, eliminating manual data collection and transformations.
Outside of work, Joss is a passionate supporter of his local football team Reading FC as well as an avid F1 fan.