Create a Random Starting Point on Tableau Public

Jul 5, 2022 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

 In December 2020, Klaus Schulte and I collaborated on a fun project where we recreated the Spot It (known as Dobble in Europe) card game in Tableau.  The object of the game is simple.  You turn over two cards and players race to find ...

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Tableau 2022.2 Overview of our Top New Features

Jul 4, 2022 ross.easton | www.theinformationlab.co.uk

Tableau 2022.2 is here! In this post we’re going to focus on the two features we’re most excited about and show how they can help you analyse and scale your data more efficiently.The post Tableau 2022.2 Overview of our Top New Features appeared fi...

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No resume? No problem! How potential-based applications have revolutioni...

Jul 4, 2022 ross.easton | www.theinformationlab.co.uk

Application processes need not be resume focussed! Collin Smith discusses the benefits of potential-based application processes.The post No resume? No problem! How potential-based applications have revolutionised the way my company hires talent. a...

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Do Good With Data: 5 Questions with Viz For Social Good’s Nisa Marques

Jul 4, 2022 ross.easton | www.theinformationlab.co.uk

We sat down with Viz for Social Good Education Director Nisa Marques to discuss her experiences of doing good with data.The post Do Good With Data: 5 Questions with Viz For Social Good’s Nisa Marques appeared first on The Information Lab.

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Regex Day

Jul 4, 2022 Longyan Chen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today’s training was about Regex and this was the first time I have heard about Regex. What is Regex?

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My first workout

Jul 4, 2022 Ozlem Sigbeku | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When talking about workouts, you may be thinking sweat and struggle. And you would be absolutely correct to think that. As we sat, attempting to recreate Workout Wednesday (WOW) 2020 week 53, I wondered if I would rather be in the gym, pushing a P...

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Data School Roundup - June 27-July 3, 2022

Jul 4, 2022 Andy Kriebel | www.thedataschool.co.uk

It was another busy week at The Data School. We ended the week celebrating DS30’s graduation, which meant it was dashboard week for them.

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Dashboard week - day 5

Jul 4, 2022 Zdravka Bratuhtcheva | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I started with data exploration and creating a user story.

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Dashboard Week Day 5: on your bike

Jul 4, 2022 Caitlin Walsh | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Another day, another dashboard - for the end of Dashboard Week, DS30 worked with a recent interview dataset about cycling in the city of Austin.

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Basic butterfly charts: visualising demographic data

Jul 4, 2022 Caitlin Walsh | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A very simple guide to Butterfly Charts in Tableau, with steps for building out a simple version of this for survey response data.

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Relative Dates Filter with Dynamic Anchor Date

Jul 4, 2022 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

In the #WOW2022 Week 26 Challenge, Sean Miller tells us that he loves using Tableau’s relative date filters. Relative date filters allow us to define date ranges either: Are updated based on the date and time the view is opened (Today). Relative d...

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Filtro de Fechas Relativas con Fecha de Anclaje Dinámica

Jul 4, 2022 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

En el desafío de la semana 26 de #WOW2022, Sean Miller nos comenta que le encanta utilizar los filtros de fechas relativas de Tableau. Los filtros de fechas relativas nos permiten definir intervalos de fechas ya sea que:  Se actualicen según la fe...

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What is view acceleration?

Jul 4, 2022 markwu2000@gmail.com | enterprisetableau.com

Tableau v2022.1 released a feature called View Acceleration. What is it? It is actually pre-compute query cache after extract refresh (for the data queries that the view uses). Pre-compute query cache, aks cache warm up, is a feature since 10.4. W...

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Create a Circle Timeline

Jul 3, 2022 Kerstin Horscht | www.thedataschool.co.uk

After 19 days of Data School, I had a quiz today to check my level of learning in Tableau. Among the tasks were some charts I had never built before. Among them was a Circle Timeline. Since I really liked the chart, here are the instructions (Samp...

Alteryx Tools 101- Select, Select Records and Sample

Jul 3, 2022 Maha Hussari | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Select Tool

Let’s make a dynamic relative date filter!

Jul 2, 2022 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

Sean set the challenge this week to build a custom relative date filter. He uttered the words “this week is pretty straightforward” which always makes me a bit nervous… The premise was to essentially replicate the out of the box relative date filt...

Transpose and Crosstab

Jul 1, 2022 Tom Dobson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Data is not always delivered in the best format. Knowing how data is structured and which arrangement we need is essential to effective analysis. In Alteryx, data can be transformed using several tools including Transpose and Crosstab.

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Tips in Tools

Jul 1, 2022 Juhie Radia | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Hopefully some useful tips and know-hows as gifs in Alteryx and Tableau

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Data School Roundup - June 20-26, 2022

Jul 1, 2022 Andy Kriebel | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Check out our weekly recap of all things we’ve been up to at The Data School. Think about this as a way to learn from what they are learning.

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Cohort Analysis with {LOD} in Tableau

Jul 1, 2022 Kristine Wiesner | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Cohort Analysis is a useful for tracking customer behavior towards products and and their performance over time.  In marketing, this can be useful tool to analyze customer loyalty by looking closely at their retention rate, life cycle and lifetime...

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InterWorks Blog Roundup – June 2022

Jul 1, 2022 Mark Cordeiro | interworks.com

You can mark your calendars: we’re officially halfway done with 2022. We’ve been winding down the data conference season this month by attending Snowflake Summit 2022, Alteryx Inspire 2022 and the Dataiku Everyday AI Conferences in both New York C...

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What is Granularity? - Tableau

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

If we have 2 files that we want to bring into tableau and use both files our analysis, there are different ways to do this depending on what you want to look at.

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Recognize Your Strengths as a Consultant

Jun 30, 2022 Tristan Kelly | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Here’s a quick thought for you. In the field of data analytics we are dealing with a ton of numbers. These numbers need to be scrutinized, subjected to new calculations and translated into a more easily digestible format (our visualizations). Give...

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Day 4 - San Francisco KPI challenge

Jun 30, 2022 Fergus Smith | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today’s dashboard challenge was to design an exceptional KPI dashboard. The dataset we were given was about rent prices in San Francisco.

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Dashboard week - day 4

Jun 30, 2022 Zdravka Bratuhtcheva | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today was day 4 our the final week of training at The Data School, known as The Dashboard Week. We were asked to put together a KPI dashboard with exceptional design. The dataset we had to analyse included data for the rental properties in San Fra...

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Dashboard Week - KPI's

Jun 30, 2022 Megan Coutts | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today our task was to  create ‘an exceptionally designed KPI dashboard’ using data from katepennington.org, pertaining to San Francisco property listings between 2000 and 2018 (on Craigslist). We had free range to choose the most pertinent KPI’s f...

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Dashboard Week: KPI Dashboard for San Francisco Rent Prices

Jun 30, 2022 John Power | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For today’s task we were required to create an “exceptionally designed KPI dashboard” using a data set on San Francisco rent prices (https://www.katepennington.org/data).

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Dashboard Week - KPI Dashboard

Jun 30, 2022 Carlos Pacheco | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This week is dashboard week and we have been tasked with producing different types of dashboards. Today’s challenge was to build a high-quality KPI dashboard for craigslist rent listings data in the San Francisco area.

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Dashboard Week Day 4: KPIs on KPIs

Jun 30, 2022 Caitlin Walsh | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For our penultimate day of training (!!!), DS30 were challenged to make a ‘very very well-designed’ KPI dashboard, based on San Francisco renting data.

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Dashboard Week: Day 4

Jun 30, 2022 Valerie Madojemu | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today DS30 was tasked to create an “exceptionally” designed KPI dashboard based on rent prices in San Francisco:

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Cardinality in Tableau Relationships

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

Cardinality refers to how unique a field is in terms of its values. For example, if every record within a field is unique, then it has perfect cardinality, if there are duplicates present then the field has lower cardinality. In Tableau, it can be...

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An Oversimplified Explanation of Dispersion

Jun 30, 2022 Abiramm Thavajothy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Struggling with statistics? This blog may be for you. Today we have a look at standard deviation and variance, and hopefully get a better understanding of how to calculate both.

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Tableau for Beginners: Connect to Data, Write a Calculation, Build a Das...

Jun 30, 2022 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

AbcTableau is a powerful analytical tool, but learning its ins and outs can feel daunting. Whether you are a first time user, shaking off some rust, or trying to get a colleague up to speed, this video is designed to give an overview of the Tablea...

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Create a Disappearing Container

Jun 30, 2022 datavis.blog | datavis.blog

Ever wanted to display a message in a window when your dashboard first loads that the user can easily close never to see again? This post shows you how.

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What Makes Good Analytics: Avoiding Data Pitfalls

Jun 30, 2022 Jim Horbury | interworks.com

At InterWorks, we spend a lot of time working in the intersection of sales teams and technical consulting. In practical terms, this means we’re interpreting and translating requirements—listening carefully to what clients want, asking the right qu...

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Day 3 - Accessibility Day

Jun 29, 2022 Fergus Smith | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day 3 of dashboard week and day 2 of the Accessibility journey. Over half way, we’re on the home straight now team.

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Dashboard week - day 3

Jun 29, 2022 Zdravka Bratuhtcheva | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For today’s challenge we had to build a Dashboard catering for people with special needs. Glasgow City Council are trying to make their city’s data more accessible to residents, and have given us a sample of road repair data from FixMyStreet to sh...

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Dashboard Week Day 3 - Accessible Road Repair Dashboards

Jun 29, 2022 Caitlin Walsh | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This was DS30’s second day working with Accessibility and Universal Design Principles. Here are some thoughts on today’s brief, and my own challenges and successes!

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Dashboard Week: Accessibility Project 2

Jun 29, 2022 Valerie Madojemu | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today we were tasked with making Glasgow City Council city data more accessible to its residents. The data for this project was obtained from FixMyStreet.

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Dashboard Week: Accessibility Design Task

Jun 29, 2022 John Power | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Using data from FixMyStreet.com, for today’s task we were required to create a Dashboard that made the data visualization experience open to as many people as possible.

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Dashboard Week - Accessibility

Jun 29, 2022 Megan Coutts | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today our task was to create a dashboard that caters to as many individuals as possible, focusing on accessibility issues such as visual impairments (e.g., colour blindness), physical impairments, or lack of keyboard/ mouse ability. I decided to f...

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Alteryx : Find Nearest Tool

Jun 29, 2022 Oksana Kirschbaum | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Alteryx is a very handy tool working with spatial data. Today I would like to show you the function of the Find Nearest tool.

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Accessibility Dashboard Considerations

Jun 29, 2022 Skomantas Tamulaitis | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today was the second day of dashboard accessibility training and here are some of the considerations that went into designing my dashboard.

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3 Things to consider when building an accessibility-friendly dashboard

Jun 29, 2022 Carlos Pacheco | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This week is dashboard week and we have been tasked with producing different types of dashboards. Today’s challenge was building a high accessibility dashboard that will accommodate and facilitate use for those with a range of disabilities.

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Tableau 2022.2: Beta Testing the Data Stories Feature

Jun 29, 2022 Chris Chang | interworks.com

We recently spent some time with the new Data Stories feature that’s part of Tableau 2022.2. In this post, I walk through that process and share the steps I took to explore the capabilities of the new Data Stories. Let’s start by taking a look…The...

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