Tableau 2022.1 New Feature Overview

Mar 31, 2022 Rowan Bradnum | interworks.com

We’re so excited to finally be able to experience the new 2022.1 release from Tableau! With each new version, Tableau continues to improve ease of use, enhance the power of data visualisation and make the platform more efficient. Notable Tableau 2...

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Can you use multiple mark layers?

Mar 31, 2022 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

Lorna Brown provided a refresher on map layers and spatial calculations for the #WOW2022 challenge this week. You’ll need Tableau Desktop v2020.4 or later to complete this due to the functionality incorporated. The data set provided contains rows ...

TIL+ wins “EMEA Data for Good” Tableau Partner Award 2021!

Mar 30, 2022 Sophie Sparkes | www.theinformationlab.co.uk

We created TIL+ in 2020 to help NGOs and nonprofits make sense of their data. TIL+ is an initiative of The Information Lab, where we strongly believe in sharing our expertise with data to help drive social change. We are honoured that TIL+ has bee...

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Die Simulation eines Pokerspiels mit Alteryx

Mar 30, 2022 Robin von Malottki | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In diesem Blogbeitrag möchte ich drei Macros vorstellen, die man für dieSimulation eines Pokerspiels benutzen kann. Die Simulation von Spielen kannverschiedene Vorteile haben. Einerseits kann man im Fall vom Pokerspieluntersuchen, ob es sich tatsä...

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Dashboard week | Seattle Cycling Data | Dashboard week -day 3

Mar 30, 2022 Gabriela Mitache | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For the third day of dashboard week (which was in fact my first after missingthe first two) we had to use Tableau Public Web Edit to visualize data about thebike counters placed along different routes in Seattle - you can find thedataset here[http...

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Dashboard week Day-3 creating a dashboard in Web Edit

Mar 30, 2022 Tulsi Majithia | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today’s objective was to create entire dashboard using tableau 7 however wecouldn’t download one. Therefore it changed to Web edit.

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Dashboard Week Day 3 - Using Tableau Public WebEdit

Mar 30, 2022 Katie Matkin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Well today was … interesting. We were given a dataset containing informationabout bicylists traffic in Seattle, but the main challenge for this was to buildin Tableau Public WebEdit - something we haven’t done before - but I guessthat’s the fun of...

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Dashboard Week Day 3 Seattle Cycling Data

Mar 30, 2022 James Driver | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For todays challenge we were provided with a dataset containing all of the timesa cyclist was flagged by Seattle’s bike tracking software. This stretched backseveral years and required a lot of cleaning so I decided to jump onto TableauPrep, havin...

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Dashboard Week Day 3 - Seattle City Bike Count

Mar 30, 2022 Alfred Chan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Dashboard day 3, an overview of the challenge we have met throughout the day. How we work around them and our dashboards.

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Dashboard Week Day 3: Seattle Bike Counters

Mar 30, 2022 Andy Kriebel | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Dashboard Week Day 3 brings a bit of a surprise to DS28. They have to use Tableau 7.

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Dashboard Week Day 3 - Bike collisions in Seattle

Mar 30, 2022 Jacob Kilroy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day 3 saw me build a dashboard based on bicycle traffic and collision data

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Dashboard Week - Day 3: Bicycle Ridership in Seattle

Mar 30, 2022 Jia Yan Ng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In the third day of dashboard week, we are tasked to analysis the bicycleridership data in Seattle. The data is taken from Seattle Open Data Portal[https://data.seattle.gov/] and we are supposed to analyse the data of 12 cycleroutes.

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Spotlight on ThoughtSpot: A New Partnership

Mar 30, 2022 Karl Riddett | interworks.com

In 2021, InterWorks officially entered into a partnership with a new analytics platform called ThoughtSpot. ThoughtSpot is an analytics platform that allows users to search their data very quickly, maximizing the use of the latest cloud data techn...

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How to Create an Alternative to a Merimekko Chart

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

A Merimekko Chart, also known as a variable width bar chart, is useful for comparing both high-level data and low-level data in the same chart. However, since we have size variables for both the width of the bars AND the height of the bars, compar...

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Using Parameters in Tableau

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

A quick look at parameters, and how we might use them to make our dashboards more interactive.

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How to create a Dynamic reference line

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

First of all, we start with a simple bar graph showing the SUM of Sales by OrderDate month:

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Dashboard Week - Day 2 - Glasgow Obstruction Data

Mar 29, 2022 Sam Search | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Following a morning session on Accessibility when creating visualisations, wewere handed a dataset looking at Obstructions in and around Glasgow which splitthese into two categories; potholes and pavement/footpath obstructions. The ideawas to crea...

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Dashboard Week Day 2 - Find Hot, Single Potholes in your Area!

Mar 29, 2022 Jacob Kilroy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day 2 of dashboard week had us build a dashboard based on FixMyStreet Pothole data, with a focus on keeping things accessible

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Dashboard Week -Day 2: Accessibility & Universal Design

Mar 29, 2022 Jia Yan Ng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Our task today is to design a dashboard that incorporates a universal design andmust be accessible to all. Ideally, we need to make a dashboard that can benavigated using keyboard. The dataset given is from a Glasgow City Councilreport in FixMyStr...

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Dashboard Week Day 2 - Accessibility

Mar 29, 2022 James Driver | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For todays task, we started with a 2 hour talk on Dashboard accessibility andthe considerations that should be made when thinking about your audience. Thiswas very interesting as it opened up some new discussions on how to avoidcreating problems f...

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Alteryx Designer Core Certification: My Experience

Mar 29, 2022 Mary-Leena Tchenkoue | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I finally got my Alteryx Core Designer certification after taking the exam asecond time. This was a great experience that reminded me that when we fail, itis up to us to either give up or learn from the failure and start again. Wefirst took the ce...

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Accessibility Day Dashboard

Mar 29, 2022 Tulsi Majithia | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today’s task objective was to create and design the dashboard with the broadestset of users in mind, and be usable by people with motor and/or visualdisabilities. We used potholes in Glasgow city data from ‘FixMyStreet via theUrban Big Data Centre’.

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Eine Möglichkeit deine Produktivität zu verbessern – Die Ivy-Lee-Methode

Mar 28, 2022 Robin von Malottki | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Wir schreiben das Jahr 1918. Charles M. Schwab, ein amerikanischer Stahlmagnatund Vorsitzender des zweitgrößten Stahlproduzenten in den USA, suchte eineMöglichkeit die Produktivität und Effizienz des Unternehmens zu steigern. Fürdieses Unterfangen...

Data School Roundup - March 21-27, 2022

Mar 28, 2022 Ann Jackson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I’m stepping in to bring you the weekly roundup of blogs from the Data School,broken down into Alteryx, Tableau, and more!

Data School Application Tips

Mar 28, 2022 Alfred Chan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

An overview of the tips and advice for the application process based on my experience of the application and time spent in the Data School

Dashboard Week Day 1: New Orleans Police Department Body Worn Camera Vid...

Mar 28, 2022 Andy Kriebel | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Dashboard week is here for DS28. For day 1, they will analyze 4 million related to body worn camera videos recorded by the New Orleans Police Department.

Dashboard Week Day 1- New Orleans Police Bodycam Data

Mar 28, 2022 Jacob Kilroy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For day 1 of DS28’s dashboard week, we built dashboards based on New Orleans Police Bodycam Data. My dashboard included inside

Dashboard Week Day 1 - New Orleans Police Body Worn Cameras

Mar 28, 2022 Katie Matkin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For our first day of Dashboard Week we were given a data set about New OrleansPolice Body Worn Cameras. You can view the data set here: https://data.nola.gov/Public-Safety-and-Preparedness/NOPD-Body-Worn-Camera-Metadata/qarb-kkbj

Dashboard Week Day 1 - New Orleans Police Body Worn Cam Data

Mar 28, 2022 Alfred Chan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

DS28 last week’s training is a dashboard week, where we have to create a dashboard from scratch in 1 day. This blog will describe our day of dashboard week

Dashboard Week - Day 1 - NOPD Bodycam Data

Mar 28, 2022 Sam Search | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For Day 1 of Dashboard Week we were provided with bodycam data of the NewOrleans Police Department since 2014, which included information on the locationand date it was recorded and more. I downloaded the data and sent it to everyoneas it was a hu...

Dashboard Week Day 1

Mar 28, 2022 James Driver | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today is our first day of dashboard week, and as such we were tasked withbuilding a dashboard around New Orleans police body cam data. The data wasfairly interesting, however it was quite messy and didn’t provide much use interms of a data guide. ...

Dashboard Week1 (DS28): NOPD Body Worn Camera

Mar 28, 2022 Tulsi Majithia | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today Morning we were given the Nopd Body Worn Camera dataset to carryout theanalysis.

Webinar Replay: Dashboards Reconstructed

Mar 28, 2022 David Duncan | interworks.com

Video replays for this webinar are available at the bottom of the blog. Scroll down to access them for each region: APAC, EMEA, USA. In this webinar, the Experience Design team shared insights into the thinking, processes and principles behind wha...

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Single Sheet Trellis Chart Zoom

Mar 28, 2022 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

 I recently created a visualization looking at Job Openings in the US.  This data is public data from BLS.gov and the final workbook is available for viewing here on our company Tableau Public page.One particular view broke down the jo...

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Showing changes in Ranking over time: try bump chart

Mar 27, 2022 Nhung Le | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Background:

Meet the Team: Iwona Fredouelle, Tableau Server Specialist

Mar 25, 2022 Sophie Sparkes | www.theinformationlab.co.uk

Get to know a bit more about the team working at The Information Lab! Iwona Fredouelle specialises in Tableau server administration and management. She has over 10 years experience and has lived and worked around the world honing her technical ski...

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Cross tab and Transpose in Alteryx explained

Mar 25, 2022 Carlos Pacheco | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Cross tab and transpose are extremely powerful tools in Alteryx for managing andorganising our data. Whilst both have their own use cases they are easilyconfused with one another and can be somewhat difficult to distinguish at first.

Calculated fields: aggregate level vs row level

Mar 24, 2022 John Power | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Calculated fields allow us to create new data from the data that pre-existed inour data source. They can be aggregate level, or row level, but never bothtogether in the same calculated field. By what do we mean when we talk aboutaggregate level an...

Tableau Action Filter Opens in New Tab

Mar 24, 2022 Fabricia | tarsolutions.co.uk

This article explains how to get a Tableau filter action to open in the same tab. The default behaviour of Tableau Server is to open … Read moreSource

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Can you create a jittered box plot?

Mar 24, 2022 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

It was Kyle’s turn to set this jittered box plot challenge this week. While it may sound complicated, this is quite a straightforward challenge this week, made more so as Kyle very kindly provides references to other blogs which help you. So let’s...

Alteryx web scraping & API calls made easy

Mar 23, 2022 Nathan Purvis | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Take a read through this blog if you’re looking for a quick way to generate multiple URLs of a similar nature that you’re looking to pull data from.

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Build a Selected vs. Comparison Date Period Filter in Tableau

Mar 23, 2022 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

This video covers how you can create a parameter which is used in a Tableau dashboard to control two date ranges at once, a “selected period” (e.g. month to date) and a “comparison period” (e.g. previous month to date).

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Visualizing PGA Tour Data in Tableau: Drive for Show, Putt for Dough

Mar 23, 2022 Ben Calder | interworks.com

It is a great time of the year. The sun stays out longer, the weather starts to warm up, and the 2022 PGA Tour season is in full swing. Netflix recently announced they are working on an all-access docuseries following the PGA Tour’s best. The…The ...

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Meet InterWorks’ First Neuron: Rachel Kurtz

Mar 23, 2022 Mark Cordeiro | interworks.com

Recently, Dataiku announced their 2022 class of Neurons—the highest performing and most passionate members of the Dataiku community. Beginning in 2020, those nominated to be Neurons are the movers and shakers in the Dataiku sphere, providing new u...

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Two Methods for Labeling the Top N Values in a Chart

Mar 22, 2022 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

In this tip I show you how to use the INDEX and RANK functions to label the top N values in a chart. I also explain the difference in how they work, and how the RANK function is simpler to configure. var divEl...

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