HOW TO: WEB PAGE OBJECT auf einem Dashboard nutzen

May 27, 2022 Romina Wiechern | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Für manche Inhalte ist es cool, wenn die Anwender*innen eines Dashboards übereinen Link direkt auf Inhalte zugreifen können, um mehr Informationen zubekommen. Hierfür eignet sich eine Verlinkung auf eine spezifische Website.

HOW TO: USE AN https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/romina-wiechern/how-to-us...

May 27, 2022 Romina Wiechern | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Sometimes it is nice to have a direct link to get some additional informationabout the topic your dashboard is about. Therefore, you can use an URL linkAction. With this type of Dashboard Action you can send the viewer to anexternal web page.

Become a Certified Data Analyst

May 27, 2022 Tanya Fischer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In the last weeks we - DSDE2 -  prepared for taking Tableau’s Data AnalystCertification exam. Yesterday was the day I took the exam and luckily I passed.But because there were several ups and down during the preparation phase inregard to my optimi...

Working with Tableau Extracts

May 26, 2022 Frederik Egervari | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tableau enables you to use data extracts as a data source in a workbook.Extracts offer a few options that might be helpful.

Design

Tableau's Moving Calculations

May 26, 2022 Frederik Egervari | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A Moving Calculation is a table calculation that can be performed withinTableau. It aggregates values within the past or future to smooth a curve toneglect short time fluctuations from, most of the time, a line chart. This canhelp to detect intere...

TC22 from Afar - My Experience of a Virtual Tableau Conference

May 26, 2022 Ross Easton | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The following blog post was written by David Yang (DSNY1) recounting hisexperience of virtually attending Tableau Conference 2022, including keylearnings that he took on board as he prepares to start life as a Data Schooler.

My Takeaway After Attending the Tableau Conference for the First Time

May 26, 2022 Ross Easton | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The following blog post was written by Islande Derazin (DSNY1) recounting herexperience of virtually attending Tableau Conference 2022, including keylearnings that she took on board as she prepares to start life as a DataSchooler.

Impressions from my First Tableau Conference

May 26, 2022 Ross Easton | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The following blog post was written by Karen D Hamilton (DSNY1) recounting herexperience of virtually attending Tableau Conference 2022, including keylearnings that she took on board as she prepares to start life as a DataSchooler.

Date based Functions in Tableau

May 26, 2022 Frederik Egervari | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tableau offers a variety of functions based on dates. Understanding thedifferences is important for working with dates.

How to Highlight a Single Column in Tableau

May 26, 2022 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

“Can Tableau do conditional formatting?”

Design

Let’s build a trellis chart!

May 26, 2022 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

It only seems like yesterday I was writing a solution guide, and I’m back at it again. This week Sean asked us to recreate this challenge to build a small multiple / trellis chart using table calculations only. A note on the data After downloading...

#WOW2022 Week 20 - Monthly Sales vs. Target

May 25, 2022 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

Today I ran a live #WatchMeViz session to show how I completed Workout Wednesday 2022 week 20. I messed up a bit, even though I had done the challenge before, but that’s part of the learning process! I hope you find the session useful. If you have...

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What is an RSS feed and why use it?

May 25, 2022 Liusaidh Owen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

An RSS feed is a web feed that contains a summary of updates from a website andoffers an easy way of staying up to date on new content from a website.

Design

Set Tableau Server Permissions When Publishing A Workbook

May 25, 2022 Skomantas Tamulaitis | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tableau permissions specify what you can and cannot do on the Tableau Server. Itallows you to select who is able to interact with the workbook or download acopy of a data source. There are two ways to set permissions on Tableau Server: When publi...

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Lessons Learned: last client project

May 25, 2022 Patrice Tiana Grant | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The lesson’s I’ve learnt during client projects and the differences I’ve seen as of my last project.

Design

Inoreader & Zapier

May 25, 2022 Giorgia Astheimer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Two weeks ago, DS29 had the pleasure of working with Sophie Sparkes as ourclient for an internal project. Our project brief was to summarise some of thebest creator content that the TIL team put out externally on the web. Thiscontent included a mo...

Design

Default Field Properties in Tableau

May 25, 2022 Frederik Egervari | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Each field can be formatted in many different ways in Tableau. Coloring, textsize, shape, etc. can be manually defined for a field. This can be done in twodifferent ways. The regular way is to drag a field into the view and then changethe settings...

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Data Preparation within Tableau Desktop

May 25, 2022 Frederik Egervari | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Often data needs to be transformed before it can be loaded into Tableau Desktop,in the Tableau world, Prep is the tool to do that task. But Tableau Desktop alsoallows you to do some basic data preparation itself and this might be enough todo the t...

Design

The Tableau Data Interpreter

May 24, 2022 Frederik Egervari | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Excel spreadsheets are often formatted so humans can understand them quickly.But Tableau needs a more structured approach to work with the data. The DataInterpreter is a tool within Tableau that allows reading in such files, even ifthey are not in...

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Dynamic Top N with Sets and Parameters

May 24, 2022 Tanya Fischer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tableau is all about interactivity and giving the user of a dashboard the optionto choose a view. Let’s say we want to give the user the possibility to see theTop N states by profit. N in this case is the number he or she can choose, soeither Top ...

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From the Showroom Floor: Back in Person at TC22

May 24, 2022 Ben Calder | interworks.com

After a few years of attending tech conferences from our living rooms, in-person conferences ARE BACK! Tableau Conference 2022 in Las Vegas certainly lived up to the hype. A group of about 20 InterWorkers recently returned from the first in-person...

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DataSchool/TIL UK Office Tour

May 23, 2022 Robson Hemans-Alexander | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Ever wondered what the TIL UK office looks like? Wonder no more… Come inside!

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Alteryx: Calculate Distance Between Two Points

May 23, 2022 Skomantas Tamulaitis | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Alteryx name originates from the phrase “Alter Y and X”. That is not surprisingsince the software was originally created to do spatial analysis. In this blog Iwill show you how to calculate the distance between two points on a map.

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The Biggest Takeaways from Tableau Conference 2022

May 23, 2022 Ben Bausili | interworks.com

Christmas Tableau Conference came early this year! That’s right, the 2022 Tableau Conference has already come and gone, but we’re here with a recap of all the updates and announcements you crave. Don’t worry if you missed anything! Sessions will b...

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5 Things You Can Do in Web Edit, But NOT Tableau Desktop

May 23, 2022 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

I tend to use Web Edit for finishing touches.  But I’ve begun to use Web Edit more and more as we’ve continued to see more parity between Desktop and Web Edit.  Although Tableau has made great strides toward parity, Desktop still has m...

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Monthly Sales vs Targets – the #data22 Vegas Edition

May 23, 2022 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

This week the whole #WOW2022 crew and myself were lucky enough to be able to attend #data22 – the Tableau Conference in Las Vegas. In the 10 years I’ve been involved in the Tableau Community, this was my very first US conference, and my first oppo...

Modifying List Items in Filter

May 21, 2022 Kristine Wiesner | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This week I learned a new trick from Coach Martin on how to modify a long listof Filter into showing only the items need to view and visualize.  UnlikeExclude options in filter,  this method simply hides all the other items onlist, as shown in the...

Consultant’s notes pt. 1: Consulting basics

May 20, 2022 Iwona Fredouelle | www.theinformationlab.co.uk

I have 5 years of previous experience in consulting and 3 years of experience in consulting at The Information Lab, so I decided to write a short article to help new consultants with their journey. This is from my perspective, people can see thing...

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How to apply User Filter for Tableau

May 20, 2022 Fergus Smith | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this tutorial I will be showing you how to apply a User Filter to a Tableaudashboard when signed into a Tableau Server. This is very useful when you aresharing a dashboard where there is sensitive or confidential data involved.Using User filter...

Different Number Formats in a single Field

May 20, 2022 Frederik Egervari | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Normally Tableau allows the use of one number format per field. But withpositive values, it is possible to use two different formats within one field.This can be useful when you display numbers over highly different ranges. Fig.1,taken from a Work...

Alteryx formula tool: interface and basic use

May 20, 2022 Skomantas Tamulaitis | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The formula tool in Alteryx is very powerful and can execute a variety ofdifferent functions including, but not limited to, cleaning data, mergingcolumns, changing data types, and working with stings. Today I will provide abasic overview of the to...

Show/Hide Button

May 19, 2022 Tram Nguyen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Hellooooo!, it’s me again 😊 Today’s topic is pretty cool just like any othertopic in this series of blog. Sometimes, when creating a dashboard I wish Icould pack all bits of visual’s component together into one single Dashboard.Some Dashboards are...

Adding items to the visual filter!

May 19, 2022 Tram Nguyen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

It’s going to be so much practical if you can add some items to the visual thatalready contains a number of fixed items; say, top 10 cities by Sales or Profit. It can not be done with either filter or parameter. First, parameter preventsmultiple s...

How to Repeat Row Labels in Tableau

May 19, 2022 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

So let’s say you built a worksheet in Tableau and the row labels aren’t repeating for every row in the table. For example, maybe a year or quarter field is only showing up once instead of repeating.

Design

Submitting Alteryx Weekly Challenge

May 18, 2022 Skomantas Tamulaitis | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Once you solve an Alteryx Weekly Challenge you may want to submit the solutionso that you are added to the index and can keep track of your submissions.Submitting a challenge simply means commenting under the original challenge postwith your packa...

Design

Spatial Alteryx: Buffer Tool

May 17, 2022 Fergus Smith | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Trying to find an Alteryx spatial tool that hadn’t been blogged by my colleague Robson was enough of a challenge in itself but we did it.

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Lessons from Client Project Week 1

May 17, 2022 John Power | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Work as a team

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Tips on being a good Trainer

May 16, 2022 Mary-Leena Tchenkoue | www.thedataschool.co.uk

As a data schooler, we get to be on the receiving end most of the time duringthe training. However, early in the training phase, we got a feeling of whatit’s like to be on the giving side as the trainer. It was a challengingexperience as we had to...

'There and Back Again': navigation buttons

May 16, 2022 Caitlin Walsh | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When one dashboard on its own is not enough, we can instead tell a data story across a series of dashboards and add navigation. This blog gives a short summary of how to include navigation features in your Tableau workbook.

Sparklines KPI

May 16, 2022 Mary-Leena Tchenkoue | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Sometimes we may want to have more than just a BAN for KPIs but also atrendline/sparkline of the KPI. As an example, I show how to create a sparklineKPI for Sales using sample Superstore data.

Re-create Tableau's Average line using LOD and Table Calculation

May 16, 2022 Mary-Leena Tchenkoue | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The analytics pane in Tableau allows to quickly create an average line by simpledrag and drop. However, it is not possible to make calculations with thisaverage line because Tableau does not allow it to be saved in the data pane. Forexample if you...

Packaging Alteryx Workflow

May 16, 2022 Skomantas Tamulaitis | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Alteryx runs weekly challenges and if you want to submit your solutions to thosechallenges you need to provide your workflow. Here is a link to the challengepage: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Weekly-Challenge/Weekly-Challenge-Index-amp-Welcome...

Using LOD to calculate different reference lines in Tableau for beginner...

May 15, 2022 Nhung Le | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Reference lines, especially average line, are often used in analysis withTableau. It could be easily done using Analytics Pane, where you can drag theAverage Line for the whole Table, each Pane or each Cell.

Swap sheets in Tableau. Logarithmic vs. standard linear scale.

May 15, 2022 Oksana Kirschbaum | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Sometimes it is difficult to decide which scale is more appropriate. The resultvaries depending on the setting, for example, a logarithmic scale would be moresuitablefor our graph. Aslider for switching scales like this on our dashboardwould be qu...

Re-creating any average lines in Tableau by using LOD

May 15, 2022 Nhung Le | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I know LOD is not the favorite topic for everyone. In the last Blog post Iexplained my approach, which helped me the last time to figure out how to buildLOD calculation in general and to recalculate the average line in particular.