Volle Kraft voraus - Die Power BI Challenge

Mar 25, 2025 Johann Shin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Für die zweite Challenge der Dashboard Week hatten wir zur Aufgabe bekommen ein Dashboard auf Grundlage eines Superstore Datensatzes zu erstellen. Der Clue an dieser Aufgabe war nur, dass wir dieses mal Power BI verwenden mussten, was ich persönli...

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Superstore Power BI Edition

Mar 25, 2025 Thomas Hoefer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

What is Dashboard week?4 Tasks, 5 days, 6 hours per Task … and only one goal: have a finished dashboard ready

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Day 2 Dashboard Week Power BI Superstore

Mar 25, 2025 Olivia Esau | www.thedataschool.co.uk

On the second day of Dashboard Week, our task was to create a dashboard in Power BI using the Superstore dataset. The dataset came pre-modelled as a star schema, so before jumping into visuals, I had to double-check the relationships to make sure ...

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Dashboard Week - Tag 2

Mar 25, 2025 Melvin Speckamp | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Am zweiten Tag unserer Dashboard Week sollten wir ein Dashboard in Power BI herstellen. Folgende Akzeptanzkriterien wurden vorgegeben:

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Dashboard-Week No. 2 Red Flags Gaps A Business KPI Superstore Dashboard

Mar 25, 2025 Ahsen Polat | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The challenge of Day 2 of Dashboard Week was to create a Business KPI Dashboard using the well-known Superstore dataset in Power BI.But simply visualizing standard KPIs like Sales, Profit, Quantity, and Discount wasn’t the focus. While Profit was ...

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Dashboard Week Interactive CV Progress Log

Mar 25, 2025 Lina Duong | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For me, CVs are always challenging to write. With the changing scope of how CVs are processed in the first place, doing something more creative is generally advised against.

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Dashboard Week Day 2 Customer Behaviour Analysis in Power BI

Mar 25, 2025 Marcel Wiechmann | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Following yesterday’s Day 1 of the Dashboard Week at The Data School, Day 2 tasked us with creating a business KPI dashboard using the Tableau Superstore dataset, but this time in Power BI.

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Dashboard Week Day 2 CVs

Mar 25, 2025 Luiza-Ariana Cocora | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today DS 48 and I got to designing our CVs in Tableau - it was a really fun and reflective progress; looking back over the 4 months and our previous careers and seeing how far we’ve come.

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Dashboard Week Day 2 CV

Mar 25, 2025 Sandy Wlodarczyk | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I couldn’t help but wonder—was my digital CV a reflection of me, or just a polished, pixel-perfect version of who I wanted to be?

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Dashboard Week Can You Click Without a Click

Mar 25, 2025 Sandy Wlodarczyk | www.thedataschool.co.uk

As I sat at my desk, sipping an oat latte and contemplating the world of dashboards, I couldn’t help but wonder—if a dashboard falls in a forest and no one can tab to it, does it even exist?

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DS48 Dashboard Week Day 2

Mar 25, 2025 Ruth Amarteifio | www.thedataschool.co.uk

As we progress through our final week in training, let’s start thinking about compiling all the skills we have gained over the last 4 months and beyond. We’d like to see you create a digital CV on Tableau!

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Dashboard Week Designing for Accessibility - Screen Reader

Mar 24, 2025 Lina Duong | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When we think about accessibility in Tableau, a lot of the time we think of colour blindness. But there are so many other groups of people we don’t realise that we’re excluding by the way we design dashboards.

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Kirk Munroe New Tableau 2025.1 - Table-Level Filters

Mar 24, 2025 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

Kevin and I arepleased to welcome back a regular contributor, Kirk Munroet. Kirk lives inHalifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and is a business analytics and performancemanagement expert. He is currently one of the owners and principal consultantsat Paint...

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Can you show the top X customers in EACH of the last 3 years and their c...

Mar 23, 2025 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

For Community Month at #WOW2025 towers, Lorna presented a challenge one of her colleagues had brought to her which they solved together. The need is to identify the top X customers in each year (which may not contain the same set of customers each...

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Set Actions and Parameter Actions in Tableau Whats the difference and wh...

Mar 20, 2025 Gabriel Louks-Kirwan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

What Are Set Actions?

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Tableau Conference 2025 Presentation

Mar 20, 2025 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

We are thrilled to once again be speaking at Tableau Conference April 15-17, 2025 in San Diego!! And this year, we’re going to be presenting on the MAIN KEYNOTE STAGE!!!!Needless to say, we are very excited about this “Super Session” and cannot th...

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How to Analyze Customer Retention with a Jump Plot

Mar 19, 2025 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

Want to analyze customer retention trends in a more insightful way? In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a Jump Plot in Tableau, a powerful visualization that helps track customer movement over time.You’ll Learn:✅ What a Jump Plot is and ...

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10 Things I Love About Databricks

Mar 19, 2025 Robby White | interworks.com

Recently, here at InterWorks, we had a professional development day where we talked through popular partner systems. Databricks was one that really stood out to me. Rather than focusing on one specific feature, I decided to talk about 10 things th...

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Level of Detail Calculations Basics 101

Mar 18, 2025 Gabriel Louks-Kirwan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Level of Detail (LOD) expressions allow you to control the granularity at which calculations are performed. In Tableau, the level of detail in a visualisation is typically defined by the dimensions included. As a result, Level of Detail Calculatio...

Kasia Gsiewska-Holc Build a Feedback Tool into Your Tableau Workbook

Mar 18, 2025 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

This is a guest blog post is from oneof our favorite regular contributors, Kasia Gąsiewska-Holc. Based in Poland,Kasia works remotely as a Senior BI Analyst at Ecovadis, a data analyticscompany based in Warsaw. She is also a Tableau Public Ambassa...

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First Steps with Alteryx My Initial Impressions Documentation Approach

Mar 16, 2025 Aronas Zilys | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This week, I finally had the chance to get hands-on with Alteryx, and I’m excited to share my first experience using the tool! Having worked with Tableau Prep and Power Query before, I was curious to see how Alteryx compared in terms of usability ...

An Intro to Alteryx Building My First Workflow

Mar 16, 2025 Amy Peacham | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Getting Started with Alteryx Designer

Whats New in dbt

Mar 14, 2025 Rachel Kurtz | interworks.com

dbt is continuing its tradition of upping the ante and developing new features to really enhance the seamless data transformation experience. In their most recent installment of “What’s new in dbt Cloud,” there were many announcements. Here are a ...

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Can you find sales per customer per first purchase cohort

Mar 14, 2025 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

Kyle set the #WOW2025 challenge this week, using a summarised data set based on Superstore that he included in the challenge page. Building out the core data fields I started this challenge, by building out the data in a tabular format, so I could...

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How to Build KPI Tiles in Tableau

Mar 12, 2025 Ollie Linley | onenumber.biz

KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) are essential for any dashboard, helping you track performance at a glance and make data-driven decisions faster. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through how to build KPIs in Tableau, from setting up calculated fi...

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Utilising Parameters to Filter on Selected Flagged Fields in PowerBI

Mar 11, 2025 Morgan A Rennie | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Streamlining Filters in Power BI with a Parameter-Based Approach

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Wie eine Lsung doch so einfach sein kann.

Mar 10, 2025 Thomas Hoefer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Eines der am Anfang kompliziertesten Aufgaben im Feld der Datenvorbereitung ist das pivotieren und transponieren, also das aufteilen einer Spalte im Datensatz in mehrere Zeilen oder auch das verbinden mehrere Zeilen in eine Spalte.

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Understanding Tableau Sets

Mar 10, 2025 Miffy Allen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

What are sets? Sets are custom subsets of data based on conditional logic. They can aid your analyses by filtering data, highlighting specific fields and grouping data.

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Regex Die Logik hinter den wilden Zeichenketten

Mar 10, 2025 Ahsen Polat | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Kennt ihr das? Ihr seht eine wilde Zeichenkette voller Punkte, Sterne, Klammern und fragt euch: “Wer versteht sowas?” Genau das habe ich auch immer gedacht, wenn ich irgendwo unbeabsichtigt auf Regex gestoßen bin. Bis wir uns dann letzte Woche dam...

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KISS in Tableau Keep Your Calculated Fields and Parameters Simple

Mar 10, 2025 Melvin Speckamp | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When building dashboards in Tableau, complexity can easily creep in—especially with calculated fields and parameters. While advanced logic is sometimes necessary, overcomplicated calculations can lead to slower performance, reduced maintainability...

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Das richtige Werkzeug fr jede Situation Quick Table Calculations

Mar 10, 2025 Johann Shin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Eine der wohl praktischsten Instrumente aus dem Tableau Sortiment sind die Quick Table Calculations. Wie der Name bereits suggeriert ermöglichen Quick Table Calculations eine Tabellenrechnung schnell auf eine Visualisierung anzuwenden. Obwohl die ...

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Handling Free Text in CSV Files JSON or XML

Mar 10, 2025 Mike Oldroyd | interworks.com

When I’m doing data engineering work for a client, it’s very common to work with data that’s been exported from a source system to a Comma Separated Variable (CSV) file. For a lot of data transfer scenarios, these simple text-based files can work we...

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The Line Jumper Chart Combining a Standard Line Chart with a Slope Chart

Mar 10, 2025 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

  I recently released my 200th viz which was all about the words spoken by the four main characters in Seinfeld. As part of this viz, I showed the percent of total words spoken by each character by season. The original version of the c...

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Understanding JSON Formatting Lessons Learned from Editing Calendar Even...

Mar 7, 2025 Lisa Hitch | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This article will visually break down how JSON formatting works and uses an example of a project where I used the Google API in Alteryx to edit Google Calendar events.

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Tableau Setting up for success

Mar 7, 2025 Dan Wade | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog, discover the top tips to set your Tableau environment up for success to work more efficiently, reduce the risk of losing work, and create more consistent dashboards.

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Can you rank by multiple measures

Mar 7, 2025 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

This week’s challenge once again has 3 levels, so I will blog the first solution and then build on/adapt from there. The main requirement is focused on working out how to rank the football teams based on multiple measures, and this is relevant for...

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What is Generative Artificial Intelligence

Mar 6, 2025 Robby White | interworks.com

Sometimes, just writing things down or saying things aloud helps me learn or understand something with more clarity and in greater depth. I’m sure that I’m not alone in my learning style and how I best absorb information into my brain. So, while t...

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Year-To-Date Profit in Tableau

Mar 5, 2025 Zaman Bilal Iqbal | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Calculating YTD Profit is a great way to simultaneously elevate your analysis and add in some interactivity for your stakeholder. Year-to-date profit is simply the total profit a company has made from the beginning of the current calendar year (i....

Tableau Date KPI Calculations A Step-by-Step Guide

Mar 5, 2025 Aronas Zilys | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Introduction

Prep Like a Pro Scaffolding Ranks LODs in Tableau Prep

Mar 5, 2025 Amy Peacham | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This week at The Data School, we’ve been diving into data preparation techniques in Tableau Prep, including scaffolding, ranks, and Level of Detail (LOD) calculations. These methods can enhance data structuring, analysis, and reporting. Here’s a b...

Living Up to the Contract Data Governance with dbt Model Contracts

Mar 5, 2025 Edward Hayter | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Model configurations are a .yml configuration that can serve a fairly important usecase of determining rules for the dbt model being produced and halting a dbt pipeline when one of these rules is broken

Data Prepping Aggregation

Mar 5, 2025 Miffy Allen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Before diving into analysis, data needs to be understood, cleaned, and reshaped. One option for reshaping is aggregation.

Calculating Current and Past Year Profits Metrics

Mar 5, 2025 Gabriel Louks-Kirwan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Current Year Profit: 

Building a dynamic YTD KPI in Tableau Because Who Doesnt Love Tracking ...

Mar 5, 2025 Victor Yuan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

KPIs are essential tools within dashboards? But how do you make one in Tableau? Or even, make a dynamic one using a parameter?

Understanding Data Types in Tableau A Guide with Examples and Use Cases

Mar 4, 2025 Aronas Zilys | www.thedataschool.co.uk

One of the fundamental aspects of working with Tableau is understanding data types, as they define how data is stored and manipulated within the software. Choosing the correct data type ensures accurate calculations, appropriate visualisations, an...