Recommended Eating Spots Near Watling Street

Aug 3, 2022 Carol Mhlanga | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A list of recommended restaurants around Watling Street at the Data School. The list has their websites linked to check their menus and addresses.

My first day of Alteryx

Aug 3, 2022 Cammy Phillips | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A few fun things we have learnt to do on day 3 of the data school with Alteryx!

How to Make a Quadrant Scatterplot

Aug 3, 2022 Longyan Chen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Requirement: For Customers in California, create a scatterplot of Quantity vs. Profit Ratio. Make it a quadrant chart.

How not to Alteryx

Aug 3, 2022 Arnold Quarcoo | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A blog on the common mistakes an individual might encounter when using Alteryx.

Data School Roundup - July 11-31, 2022

Aug 3, 2022 Andy Kriebel | www.thedataschool.co.uk

There’s so much to cover in this roundup. The team has provided so much to learn from including an astounding 55 Tableau tips and 32 Alteryx tips.

Alteryx vs Python - Day 1 of Alteryx Training

Aug 3, 2022 Lauren Halliwell | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today was my first day learning and using Alteryx after years of using Python and it is like a breath of fresh air.

Alter-cations, Alter-ations, Alter-yx

Aug 3, 2022 Ben Winsey | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A beginning into Alteryx… the only way is up!

A Snapshot of Alteryx

Aug 3, 2022 Carol Mhlanga | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A first look into Alteryx. Learning the fundamentals of Alteryx and how to build a workflow.

Worried about the application process? Don't be

Aug 2, 2022 Lauren Halliwell | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Having previously used Tableau, purely to build graphs, I thought that an application process created to show your data visualization skills would be a breeze. How wrong I was.

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Modern Architecture... no not the buildings.

Aug 2, 2022 Arnold Quarcoo | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A brief overview on the traditional vs modern business intelligence and analytics methods, with an example of my own modern architectural diagram on the investment/ banking industry.

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Haunted Pasts and Hopeful Presents

Aug 2, 2022 Ben Winsey | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A take on trials and tribulations of starting anew… embrace the chaos!

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Distant Pasts and Hopeful Presents

Aug 2, 2022 Ben Winsey | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A take on trials and tribulations of starting anew… embrace the chaos!

Day Two: Clinical Trials Data Management

Aug 2, 2022 Finn Charlton | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Despite once collecting scientific data for a living, I had no idea where that data could go, or how it could be used in a wider context. I didn’t expect to be studying modern data architecture on my second day, but it gave so much context to both...

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Technical Tuesday: Using Snowflake’s Generator Function to Create Date a...

Aug 2, 2022 Chris Hastie | interworks.com

Of the many useful functions available in Snowflake, one of my favourites is the GENERATOR function. This function allows you to create rows of data from nothing and can be useful in many ways. Any time you don’t have physical data to get you star...

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InterWorks Keeping an Eye Out at Eyeo Festival

Aug 2, 2022 Emily Miley | interworks.com

The Eyeo Festival can probably be best described by the way in which it was named, which you can find in a Medium article from one of the festival’s founders: “I came up with the name, Eyeo, which doesn’t mean anything specific, but riffs on…The p...

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DataWomen Event Recap: Everyday AI

Aug 2, 2022 Azucena Coronel | interworks.com

Information technology is one of the world’s fastest growing sectors. Data, analytics and technology have permeated through all aspects of our lives, and it is safe to say that in all sectors and industries, there are data problems to be solved. J...

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#DataPlusMusic | 2022 | 08 | Music in Video Games

Aug 2, 2022 Sean Miller | www.hipstervizninja.com

Loud Music and High Scores I’m so excited to be teaming up with the team at #GamesNightViz! They’ve pulled together some great datasets to help jump start your progress. Check them out over on their github Need some inspiration? In addition to the...

Why I started using Tableau

Aug 1, 2022 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

I started using Tableau in 2007. I’ve learned a lot since then. In this video, I go back to the beginning and tell you how I got started. My journey won’t be dissimilar to many of you. Plus, I provide some simple steps to learn faster.

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Specificity vs Sensitivity

Aug 1, 2022 Ozlem Sigbeku | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A description of the both ugly and cool, regular expression. There is a battle between sensitivity and specificity when writing these expressions and I will help you win that battle.

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Day 1 = Culture shock

Aug 1, 2022 Angelica Obi | www.thedataschool.co.uk

What it feels like to work at The Data School when all you know are stuffy desk jobs.

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Webinar Replay: Driving Adoption with User-Centered Dashboard Development

Aug 1, 2022 Kendra Allenspach | interworks.com

A video replay for this webinar is available at the bottom of the blog. In this webinar, we go over how to think like a consultant to elevate your dashboarding experience into something enjoyable for both devs and users alike. The Three Principles...

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InterWorks Blog Roundup – July 2022

Aug 1, 2022 Mark Cordeiro | interworks.com

I certainly can’t speak for every InterWorker around the globe, but July was a scorching hot month for us in InterWorks’ home state of Oklahoma. The highest we saw at our satellite office in Oklahoma City was somewhere around 114 degrees Fahrenhei...

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Tableau Custom Number Formatting – Part 1

Jul 31, 2022 datavis.blog | datavis.blog

This post covers an introduction to custom number formatting in Tableau with a variety of examples.

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War on Attrition- Fin

Jul 29, 2022 Edward Sinclair-Hughes | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The last challenge for Dashboard Week was to look at some HR data and help discover the reasons people may be leaving a fake company called Everest.

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The End of the Beginning

Jul 29, 2022 Thanoshaan Thayalan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The End of the Beginning

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Schools out........ For the weekend?

Jul 29, 2022 Tom Stinson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today was the last day of data school, and its been a blast. However, this blog isn’t about that, this blog is about the importance of checking the brief.

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Panning a Chart in Tableau

Jul 29, 2022 Tom Dobson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today was our final day of dashboard week and also of DS31’s training. I was therefore surprised to discover a feature in Tableau completely by accident. This is the ability to pan a chart. This is enabled by holding SHIFT and dragging the chart w...

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How to: Radial Line Charts

Jul 29, 2022 Tanya Fischer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

During Dashboard Week I wanted to explore some chart types I hadn’t done before. This way I came across the Radial Line Chart which some people refer to as Radial Bar Chart. It might not be THE most easy chart to read or to quickly communicate ins...

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Dashboard week final day: The end

Jul 29, 2022 Algirdas Grajauskas | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Well the past four month ran by quickly, it was a lot of fun during the entire time. Since I started I did not feel as confident in my skills but the passion of head-coaches and people around in TIL helped me a lot to grow as a person and as an an...

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Dashboard week Business - Day 4

Jul 29, 2022 Charalambos Pavlou | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The last day of dashboard week and training.

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Dashboard day 4: Finality

Jul 29, 2022 Abiramm Thavajothy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Final day of dashboard week, and we’re already off to a worse start than yesterday. Unlike yesterday’s cheese data (I like cheese), today’s data was about HR Analytics (don’t like HR as much as cheese).

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Dashboard Week Day 5: Insert Sappy Title

Jul 29, 2022 Dorinna Pentchev | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For our final project of dashboard week, we were tasked with creating a dashboard using HR attrition data for a mock company.

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Dashboard Week Day 4: Finance Project

Jul 29, 2022 Thanoshaan Thayalan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Dashboard Week Day 4: Finance Project

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DS31 Dashboard Week Final Day

Jul 29, 2022 Lorna Brown | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I have loved giving DS31 these challenges throughout the week. I have channeled my inner Andy and been called very mean. Finally, it’s the last day of Dashboard Week, but Friday’s are always a shorter day. So maybe I’m going soft in my ages, but I...

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Tableau Relationships: Basics – Logical Layer & Physical Layer

Jul 29, 2022 Sebastian Deptalla | interworks.com

Relationships work on what Tableau calls the Logical Layer, while traditional joins work on the Physical Layer. Let’s have a look at what those two layers actually mean and why they have their names.   Tableau’s Physical Layer So, the Physical Lay...

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InterWorks Celebrates National Intern Day

Jul 29, 2022 Kelsey Lee | interworks.com

Today is National Intern Day, and at InterWorks, we want to celebrate our interns that have joined us this summer! First, here’s a quick definition of what National Intern Day is all about: “Launched by WayUp in 2017, National Intern Day has serve...

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Insert Cheesy Title Here

Jul 28, 2022 Tom Stinson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day three of dashboard week was all about the cheese. This inevitably led to puns and an entertaining dashboard, but getting the data was more complicated. We had to webscrape from a cheese website, getting the links to webpages of individual chee...

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How Do Relationships Differ From Joins?

Jul 28, 2022 Gerda Staurylaite | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In Tableau, one may not know what is the difference between Relationships and Joins. Here’s an explanation!

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Dashboard week Day 3 - Say Cheese

Jul 28, 2022 Charalambos Pavlou | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The day started at 8:45, I arrived in the office to be greeted with a grinning Lorna who had prepared the cheesiest challenge of the week.

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Dashboard day 3: Ability

Jul 28, 2022 Abiramm Thavajothy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today’s dashboard day was all about data preparation - and so I’m writing this blog without a dashboard.

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Dashboard Week: Day Four

Jul 28, 2022 Tom Dobson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today’s task was to web scrape and visualise data from cheese.com. It became immediately apparent that this would require more than downloading, parsing and cleaning HTML. Here’s how I approached it. To retrieve the data on each cheese I required ...

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Dashboard Week Day 3: Web-Scraping Project

Jul 28, 2022 Thanoshaan Thayalan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Dashboard Week Day 3: Web-Scraping Project

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DS31 Dashboard Week Day 3

Jul 28, 2022 Lorna Brown | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Yesterday I mentioned DS31 wanted different areas of focus. Well this one is going to be full of cheesy goodness.

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Cheesus Christ it's Cheese.com

Jul 28, 2022 Dorinna Pentchev | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today’s challenge was mostly about data prep. Cheese.com sounds like a website that got its domain in 1999 and hasn’t been updated since 2006, but lo and behold, the website we were tasked with scraping is a very current and detailed guide to all ...

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Cheesed to meet you ;)

Jul 28, 2022 Algirdas Grajauskas | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The third day of Dashboard week brought to us a 1830 types of cheeeese.

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