Alteryx: Linear Regression

Jul 18, 2022 Tom Dobson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Alteryx provides several tools with which we can perform predictive modelling. One of these is the Linear Regression tool, a package that allows users to estimate the value of a dependent variable based on the values of one or more independent var...

Culture

Pairing Data and Learning with InterWorks and Maastricht University

Jul 18, 2022 Robin Bergmans | interworks.com

As another academic year comes to an end, we at InterWorks want to reflect on our collaboration with universities the world over. I personally want to appreciate and highlight the pleasant relationship we’ve maintained with Maastricht University i...

Culture

New Viz: Hello Newman: Seinfeld Recurring Characters

Jul 18, 2022 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

 I LOVE the TV show Seinfeld!!! One day I started looking at the most common recurring characters…yada yada yada…I made this viz!  But wait, I yada yada yada’d the best part??? The truth is, when I first started using Tableau, I always...

Tableau

Query Tableau workbook permissions for all groups and users

Jul 18, 2022 Elliott Stam | medium.com

Using Python and the Tableau REST API to track who can do whatContinue reading on TDS Archive »

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Multiple Field Colours

Jul 17, 2022 Jessica Haire | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Für mein Freitagsprojekt– wollte ich das Gehaltswachstum mit einer anderen Farbe darstellen– damit der Kunde es sofort erkennt

What did it take to get into DSDE3?

Jul 15, 2022 Martin Pohlers | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The Data School in Germany is still quite fresh and we are very happy to have found such a great group of people. Here’s what they’ve done!

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Bar-in-Bar-Chart mit einer Achse

Jul 15, 2022 Viktoria Von Laer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Bar in Bar Charts, bei denen Balken “ineinander” gelegt werden, wobei die einen Balken dünner als die anderen sind und zusätzlich farblich abgesetzt und  mit denen man sehr gut zwei Kennzahlen vergleichen kann, wie beispielsweise den Profit zweier...

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Learn to build a Butterfly Chart in Tableau

Jul 15, 2022 Sean Miller | www.hipstervizninja.com

Butterfly charts are a diverging data visualization that allows users to compare values across a single dimension as well as down a separate dimensions. Check out this blog to learn how to create one in TableauThe post Learn to build a Butterfly C...

Can you build a butterfly chart?

Jul 15, 2022 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

Lorna Brown set the challenge this week to build this butterfly chart, so called because of the symmetrical display. I’ve built these before so hoped it wouldn’t be too taxing. The data set isn’t very verbose, fields for gender & year specific...

Why is the Parameter Action so essential to your Dashboard

Jul 14, 2022 Ana-Casiana Tarita | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Parameters are extremely useful for a Dashboard– they allow users to select or input a value and they can also contribute to the interactivity of the Dashboard. You can also save time when you set the values selected by the users to be automatical...

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Using Parameters to Manipulate Data (Percentage Increase)

Jul 14, 2022 Beau Foletti | www.thedataschool.co.uk

How to create a parameter to allow the user to change values in a calculation and show them dynamically on a chart.

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Test tool, a powerful quality assurance means

Jul 14, 2022 Tram Nguyen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

It’s been a while since I’ve done an Alteryx challenge. Today, it’s time to learn a new tool in Alteryx, Test. Use Test to verify data or processes in a workflow. Since the Test tool accepts multiple inputs, with a single Test tool you can create ...

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Table Calculation Functions: INDEX vs. FIRST vs. LAST

Jul 14, 2022 Imogen Emmett | www.thedataschool.co.uk

What is the difference between the INDEX, FIRST and LAST table calculation functions?

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Switching Measures on the Fly in the Same View

Jul 14, 2022 Zachary Ryan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Having spent the last couple days learning about sets and parameters and their capabilities, I thought it was only right to share my knowledge on one of the cooler things parameters enabled us to do.

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Show/Hide Containers Based On Filter Using Parameters - Tableau

Jul 14, 2022 Maha Hussari | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Want to have more than 2 graphs that you can switch between on your dashboard by a click of a button? Read more to find out how!

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Reference band vs Reference Line

Jul 14, 2022 Peter Hajnal | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Reference line:

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Playing around with Parameters

Jul 14, 2022 Ozlem Sigbeku | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Have you ever wanted to sort a stacked bar chart by selecting a segment? This guide will run through how to do this using a sorting parameter action. Includes a workbook and mock dataset.

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Parameters: Creating Variable X and Y axes

Jul 14, 2022 Nermine Obeng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Parameters are extremely useful tools in Tableau and they have many uses. One such use is the ability to switch the measures of scatterplot axes, so that users can view the relationships between different variables.

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How to replace your data source in tableau.

Jul 14, 2022 Sophie Higson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

If you have already chosen some data to analyse in Tableau but you want replace this original data with a newer updated version, you are able to do this very easily.

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How to change date properties

Jul 14, 2022 Bridget Ama Boateng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

There is so much you can do with dates in tableau. Let’s look how to customize a date. There is a chance that your future client may want you to create a dashboard around a certain time period such as the fiscal year.

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How to Make Line and Bar Chart in One Worksheet

Jul 14, 2022 Longyan Chen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

How to build a worksheet with either line or bar chart by choosing different chart type?

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How to Create a Dynamic Moving Average in Tableau

Jul 14, 2022 Reuben Clayman | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Creating User-defined N-day Moving Averages

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How to Click & Sort with a Set Action | Tableau

Jul 14, 2022 Marcelo Ramos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Want to click on a mark and have that sorted to the top of the viz? Well now you can, with Set Actions!

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How To Create Calendar Charts in Tableau

Jul 14, 2022 Gerda Staurylaite | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Creating calendar view heat map charts seem daunting, but at the end they look satisfying. Here’s how to make one!

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Dynamically switching dates in Tableau

Jul 14, 2022 Joel Akaje-Macauley | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Ever wanted to combine multiple charts into one? This is the blog for you. Read for a tutorial and explanation.

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Colour Quadrants

Jul 14, 2022 Sundus Jamaal | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog post is aimed to help you create a 4- colour quadrant using the sample superstore data.

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Alteryx Spatial: using Summarize tool and Formular tool to work with spa...

Jul 14, 2022 Nhung Le | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Let’s look at this example together. On this photo you see two spatial objects (polygon).

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How to Add Info Buttons to Tableau Dashboards

Jul 14, 2022 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Does your dashboard feel cluttered because you’re trying to communicate too much supporting information to your user? Making sure you cover everything your user needs to know can leave your output feeling more like an essay than a data-driven dash...

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Spatial Analysis: Creating Storm Paths

Jul 13, 2022 Imogen Emmett | www.thedataschool.co.uk

How to undertake spatial analysis in Alteryx and Tableau to create storm paths.

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Requirements gathering in the kick off meeting

Jul 13, 2022 Daniel Glasenapp | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In today’s session, we discussed project management and requirements gathering. In today’s blog post I would like to talk about the kick off meeting. In my opinion the kick off meeting is a very essential part that can influence the course of the ...

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Tableau Permission Denied While Globbing File Pattern

Jul 13, 2022 Fabricia | tarsolutions.co.uk

Using the Google Cloud Platform with Tableau, and getting the error, “Permission denied while globbing file pattern”? To create this error, put a file into … Read moreSource

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Gráfico de Mariposa

Jul 13, 2022 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

Lorna Brown nos comparte un interesante desafío para la semana 28 de #WOW2022, en donde es requerido mostrar la información de la población de UK en un gráfico de mariposa. Los principales requerimientos son: Crear un gráfico de mariposa que compa...

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Butterfly Chart

Jul 13, 2022 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

Lorna Brown shares an interesting challenge for week 28 of #WOW2022, where it is required to display the information of the UK population in a butterfly chart. The main requirements are: Create a butterfly chart comparing the male population vs. t...

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#DataPlusMusic 2022 | 07 | The Intro

Jul 13, 2022 Sean Miller | www.hipstervizninja.com

You know it when you hear it We all have a list of songs in our head that from first note we get this feeling and those feelings could be range from anything rage to chillin’ out. Maybe that feeling is a long lost memory of a significant time in y...

How to Update a Datasource WITHOUT CLOSING TABLEAU

Jul 12, 2022 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

If you use a PC, you’ve probably run into the situation where you can’t update a datasource because it’s in use by Tableau. You have to close Tableau, save the datasource, then open Tableau again. Well…no more! I promise this tip is going to save ...

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WebScraping

Jul 12, 2022 Charalambos Pavlou | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Steps on how to Webscrape

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The Tableau Platform

Jul 12, 2022 Bridget Ama Boateng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

So want to create a dashboard ? Let’s look at the basic steps …

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Tableau Fundamentals: Live vs. Extracted Data

Jul 12, 2022 Nermine Obeng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

To share live data or to share extracted data, that is the question.

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Project management

Jul 12, 2022 Heinrich Preuß | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The task of managing something was particularly interesting to me when I was doing my “Referendariat” - a time when I was preparing to become a high school teacher. At first glance, a teacher’s job and a manager’s job don’t have much in common, bu...

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How To Add Customs Shapes/Icons On Tableau

Jul 12, 2022 Maha Hussari | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Want your own set of icons/picture’s to depict a point in a scatterplot or any other points? Tired of the same old boring points that tableau gives you to pick from? Well this is the post for you.

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Filtering Blue vs Filtering Green

Jul 12, 2022 Peter Hajnal | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Filtering is super useful in Tableau. We can organize and simplify our data with it and we like that.There are 6 different type of filter options:

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Default Properties for Measures in Tableau

Jul 12, 2022 Ana-Casiana Tarita | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The Default Properties menu lets you adjust the colors, the number of format and add a comment for any measure added . You can also set the default aggregation for a measure or check the Total using option.

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Default Properties for Dimensions

Jul 12, 2022 Sundus Jamaal | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When initially using fields in tableau they are initially displayed on their default settings. If you are aiming to use a field multiple times across different worksheets, it will save you time to alter these fields properties to apply these chang...

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Data Types in Tableau

Jul 12, 2022 Beau Foletti | www.thedataschool.co.uk

An explanation of data types in Tableau and how to change them.

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Context Filters: What Are They?

Jul 12, 2022 Gerda Staurylaite | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Context filters: What are they? and how can you avoid the problems that may occur whilst using any filters?

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