XML in Alteryx

Aug 31, 2022 Frederik Egervari | www.thedataschool.co.uk

XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a language that is widely used to structure data. Alteryx Workflow files like .yxmd’s are written in XML and can be observed and changed like this. Therefore, you can open a workflow via the editor, to observe t...

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What is blending?

Aug 31, 2022 Lauren Halliwell | www.thedataschool.co.uk

If you have used Tableau for some time, you should know joins, relationships, unions…but do you know blending.

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What is Filter Action?

Aug 31, 2022 Pooja Srivastava | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Filter Action provides user higher level of visualization interactivity. When you want to use your chart as a filter for other graphs/charts, filter action is a good option to choose.

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My week as a Project Manager

Aug 31, 2022 Bridget Ama Boateng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A week back, my cohort DS33 started our first client project alongside our training. These projects each one of us to take on the role of leading the team to complete a project. I’ve decided to document my each day and provide tips on how to overc...

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How to turn a continuous date into a table

Aug 31, 2022 Arnold Quarcoo | www.thedataschool.co.uk

How to turn a continuous date into a table.

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Filters in Tableau: A Brief Overview

Aug 31, 2022 Tristan Kelly | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When attempting to limit your data within Tableau, you will have a bunch of filters to reckon with. There will be different use cases for each one and a specific order in which they should be used, so it is good to have a basic, high-level underst...

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Drill Down Bar Chart - Parameter Action

Aug 31, 2022 Maha Hussari | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Want to know how to create a parameter action drill down bar chart?

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Dashboard Design 101

Aug 31, 2022 Cammy Phillips | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A few ideas about what makes a good dashboard

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Connecting With The Data Community: Where to Start

Aug 31, 2022 Tristan Kelly | www.thedataschool.co.uk

One of the most effective ways to advance your skills and your career in the data industry is to get connected with like-minded people. Finding your community within an industry space can seem daunting at first, but there is value in establishing ...

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Tableau Relationships: Performance – Joins and Referential Integrity

Aug 31, 2022 Sebastian Deptalla | interworks.com

Now, let’s look into the second part of the Performance Options: Referential Integrity. What a daunting phrase! Sounds scary, but it’s actually simpler than the Cardinality.  With this option, we tell Tableau whether it should expect values to hav...

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2022 Tableau Fantasy Football Draft Kit

Aug 31, 2022 Will Jones | interworks.com

Last year’s Fantasy Football saw some wild rides, with early favorite Christian McCaffrey injured early and Cooper Kupp going absolutely HAM in PPR especially. COVID didn’t impact the season as much as it could have, fortunately and we’re not like...

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#WOW2020 Week 53

Aug 30, 2022 Angelica Obi | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Using containers in containers

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Using Power BI to remake a Tableau Dashbaord.

Aug 30, 2022 Sophie Higson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This post includes my experience and opinions of using Power BI compared to Tableau, as well as some ‘how to’ answers for first time users.

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Using Containers

Aug 30, 2022 Angelica Obi | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Using containers in containers

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Trying to recreate my DS Application on PowerBI

Aug 30, 2022 Marcelo Ramos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

See how I fared in recreating my first DS application viz in PowerBI!

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Tableau Prep 101 - How to Output data in Tableau Server

Aug 30, 2022 Maha Hussari | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Connecting workflow of tableau prep into the tableau server

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Tableau Prep 101 - How to Create a Parameter

Aug 30, 2022 Maha Hussari | www.thedataschool.co.uk

How to create a parameter in Tableau Prep.

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Same Viz, different software

Aug 30, 2022 Ozlem Sigbeku | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I cheated on Tableau and here is what happened!

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Rubber Duck is your new best friend

Aug 30, 2022 David Yang | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Rubber ducking is an underutilized skill that is often overlooked. It is a simple skill that everyone can do but is never the first method they use. The first method is often googling it up or asking for help. The skill is simple. Explain your pro...

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Power Bi - Top N

Aug 30, 2022 Maha Hussari | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Want to know how to create Top N and change the aggregations of field in Power Bi?

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Power Bi - Create a Calculated Field

Aug 30, 2022 Maha Hussari | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Step by step guide on how to create a calculated field on Power Bi

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Power BI vs. Tableau: The Pros and the Cons

Aug 30, 2022 Imogen Emmett | www.thedataschool.co.uk

What are the pros and cons of using Power BI?

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How to turn off default cross filtering in Power BI

Aug 30, 2022 Reuben Clayman | www.thedataschool.co.uk

How to remove the default Power BI Cross Filtering

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How to Calculate Profit Ratio in Power BI?

Aug 30, 2022 Longyan Chen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Task: What’s the overall profit ratio within Sample Superstore?

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Getting rid of the "Select" screen in Tableau

Aug 30, 2022 Finn Charlton | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Get rid of the “Select” function in Tableau!

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Can't see the option to create a field parameter in Power BI

Aug 30, 2022 Joel Akaje-Macauley | www.thedataschool.co.uk

How to get the option to create a field parameter opposed to just the numerical parameters.

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3 Tips to Improve Alteryx Workflow Speeds

Aug 30, 2022 Zachary Ryan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Having worked with a large Alteryx workflow, I know the pain of having to wait a bit longer for your runtime to finish. Here’s some ways I solved my problems.

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Investigating Snowflake Connectivity Issues with SnowCD

Aug 30, 2022 Chris Hastie | interworks.com

Snowflake have developed a simple command line tool that can be used to investigate snowflake connectivity issues. This tool’s full name is the Snowflake Connectivity Diagnostic Tool, however it is more commonly referred to as SnowCD. If you are s...

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#MakeoverMonday 2022 Week 35 - The World's Biggest Military Spenders

Aug 29, 2022 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

Makeover Monday is back! Every Monday I’ll be running a #WatchMeViz and every Wednesday, Eva will be running #VizReview. Subscribe to my YouTube channel for reminders of the latest events.https://youtube.com/andykriebelThis week was a makeover of ...

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How to Create Shape Layers in Tableau

Aug 28, 2022 Yash Sakhuja | vizartpandey.com

Learn how to use map layers in Tableau to create some amazing Visualisation. For each layer that you create, Tableau provides a new marks card, so you can encode each layer’s data by size, shape, and color.The post How to Create Shape Layers in Ta...

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Project Manager Role in Customer Lab

Aug 28, 2022 Daniel Glasenapp | www.thedataschool.co.uk

What does the project manager actually do?

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Tableau Custom Number Formatting – Part 2

Aug 28, 2022 datavis.blog | datavis.blog

Part 2 of this custom number formatting post covers: large numbers, prefixes & suffixes, currency, localisation and Unicode with many examples.

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How to upload files on S3 AWS?

Aug 27, 2022 Longyan Chen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Requirement: Manually upload a file on to S3 bucket on Amazon Web Services.

How to Create a Stage Table and File Format on Snowflake?

Aug 27, 2022 Longyan Chen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Task: Create a stage table and a file format on Snowflake.

Workout Wednesday - New York City Tableau User Group Recap

Aug 26, 2022 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

Talk about pressure! I was given a 30 minute slot to see how many Workout Wednesday’s I could complete. I was pretty confident I could finish 4, given I had already pre-selected the challenges I thought were easiest. But…those pesky tooltips!And t...

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How to Pivot from Rows to Columns in Tableau Prep

Aug 26, 2022 Sundus Jamaal | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Data needs to be organized before being analyzed in Tableau. There should be just one distinct meaning for each column. When your data tables are too tall and narrow to be adequately analyzed, then you would need to  pivot some rows of data to col...

Building a dumbbell chart

Aug 26, 2022 Heinrich Preuß | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Scrolling through the latest Workout Wednesday Challenges, I found the dumbbell chart quite attractive at first glance, even though I was a bit confused by the strange name, which can definitely be used as an insult.

Application Tips From New York's First Data School Cohort

Aug 26, 2022 Tristan Kelly | www.thedataschool.co.uk

We here at The Data School New York have been lucky enough to be part of The Information Lab’s first cohort in The United States, but of course, it was more than just luck! My knowledge of the application process is purely based on what I have exp...

How to use the Lookup Function in Tableau

Aug 25, 2022 Sundus Jamaal | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The lookup function is one of many table calculations in tableau. Table calculation functions allow you to perform computations on values in a table. Allowing you to calculate what’s on your current chart and not at the row level in you data source.

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Formatting Axes

Aug 25, 2022 Peter Hajnal | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Photo by Gabriele Tirelli / Unsplash

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Filtering Years using a Parameter in Tableau

Aug 25, 2022 Finn Charlton | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Learn how to create a “Number of Years in the View” filter in Tableau using parameters.

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File Types and Extensions for tableau

Aug 25, 2022 Bridget Ama Boateng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tableau has around eight different filed types, this blog will take you through there features.

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How to Swap Worksheets in a Tableau Dashboard (v 2022.2+)

Aug 25, 2022 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Sometimes, users need to see the same data multiple ways to develop thorough insights. Providing your user the ability to switch worksheet types (e.g. swap a map for a bar chart) is a great way to provide them with flexibility in analysis!

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Soft Skills for Consultants

Aug 25, 2022 Debbie Yu | interworks.com

If you google, “skills every consultant should have,” you’ll get pages and pages of articles online listing out key skills for consultants. Communication! Leadership! Problem-solving! It’s a dizzying array of attributes and skills.  As a hiring ma...

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You shall not Pass! - Tableau Server Permissions

Aug 24, 2022 Arnold Quarcoo | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tableau Server Permissions.

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