Detailed Guide to Regular Expressions

Mar 22, 2022 Ombir Rathee | vizartpandey.com

Quick reference to regular expression The post Detailed Guide to Regular Expressions appeared first on Welcome to Vizartpandey.

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Meet the Team: Louisa O’Brien, Tableau and Alteryx Consultant

Mar 22, 2022 Sophie Sparkes | www.theinformationlab.co.uk

Get to know a bit more about the team working at The Information Lab! Pragmatic and thoughtful, Louisa centres people and meaning in her work with data. In her own words: I like helping people understand things – while my career can look non-linea...

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Sheet Swapping On Steroid in Tableau - using a Parameter Action

Mar 22, 2022 Jia Yan Ng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog explains how to swap sheets without using the parameter interface, but by clicking on another chart to trigger the swap action.

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How to lose your V(lookup) plates

Mar 22, 2022 Fergus Smith | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Well not quite, but a neat alternative in Alteryx to the Vlookup function used in Microsoft Excel

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Week 1 - DS30 | A beginner’s look into Alteryx and Tableau Prep

Mar 21, 2022 Megan Coutts | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The first week in the Data School has definitely been fun, with lots of newfaces to meet, places to see, and pieces of software to learn. However, as withany new job, it has also been a daunting process too, with a plethora ofinformation to take i...

Titles under values

Mar 21, 2022 Zdravka Bratuhtcheva | www.thedataschool.co.uk

How to get the title in capital leters under the number or measure values overmeasure name?

Introduction To Calculated Fields: Custom & Table Calculations

Mar 21, 2022 Valerie Madojemu | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Calculated fields can be formed from custom calculations, using the calculatedfield editor with your data source. Calculations can be formed as an aggregatedcalculation or non-aggregated (row-level). Calculated fields are particularlyuseful when y...

Data School Roundup - March 14-20, 2022

Mar 21, 2022 Andy Kriebel | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Here’s your weekly recap of learnings from Data School Australia, Data School UK and Data School Germany. They have tips for using Tableau and Alteryx, plus advice for future DSers and running projects.

Tableau Data Sources Part 1: Data Source Types

Mar 21, 2022 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

 There is so much you can do with a Tableau data source. You can extract it or maintain a live connection. You can publish it to Server/Online so that it can be reused by yourself and others. You can save it with a packaged workbook so...

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Using Set Actions to create a dynamic Reference Band – a step-by-step tu...

Mar 20, 2022 Nhung Le | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today’s blog is a tutorial on how to create a reference band using set actions.We are using the Superstore data sample from Tableau 2021.4. Using set actionswe can make the reference lines dynamic that the borders update automaticallyaccording to ...

Increasing User Control by using Parameters in Tableau

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

Parameter actions are a good way to allow a dashboard user additional options tochoose a parameter. By including a dropdown to select a specific dimension theuser has the option to take a look at what she/he is interested in.

How I tackle a mini project!

Mar 20, 2022 Tram Nguyen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

These are a few lines I jot down about Friday’s presentation, a trial projectwhich prepares us very well for our first client’s project next week. Keeping inmind all the lessons about project management, request gathering and a bunch ofTableau adv...

Tableau IF Functions

Mar 20, 2022 Fabricia | tarsolutions.co.uk

This post explains the different options to write IF statements in Tableau. This includes IF, IIF, and CASE, with a brief mention of IFNULL. The … Read moreSource

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Updated Blog Post: How to Create a Custom Mapbox Map with Zoom in to Sat...

Mar 19, 2022 | dataplusscience.com

One popular requests when creating maps in Tableau is the ability to be able to swap between a regular map view and a satellite view. Tableau offers six different map layers; Light, Normal, Dark, Street, Outdoors and Satellite. In this blog post I...

Splitting in Tableau

Mar 18, 2022 Carlos Pacheco | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Data splitting is a handy tool that allows users to partition one column and itsdata into multiple columns. These columns may contain a string or numerical datawith delimiters (e.g. ‘-‘, ‘,’ , ‘/’)

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Creating an easy Parameter in Tableau

Mar 18, 2022 Tanya Fischer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Parameters are a great feature of Tableau to help making your visualization moreinteractive. Here’s a simple example: A customer asks you to visualize differentmeasurements regarding her sales team over time, let’s say profit and quantity.You coul...

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Webinar Replay: Cloud Analytics for the NHS

Mar 18, 2022 InterWorks | interworks.com

In this webinar replay, Graham Beales, Head of Business Intelligence at Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, guided us through the challenges they faced when devolving from the NHS and the development of their tech stack. Graham ...

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Webinar Replay

Mar 18, 2022 InterWorks | interworks.com

In this webinar replay, Graham Beales, Head of Business Intelligence at Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership guided us through the challenges they faced when devolving from the NHS and the development of their tech stack. Graham d...

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Table calculations – LOCK IT IN

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

In the below screenshot we can see a simple table showing the sales of chairs,blinders, fasteners, accessories and machines broken down by segment:

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Project Manager Diary - Days 2 and 3

Mar 17, 2022 Sam Search | www.thedataschool.co.uk

After a morning of studying, the team cracked on with their specific areas ofthe project as appropriate. Fortunately by this point, we’ve all had a fairamount of experience of how to approach the client work and as such I have fullconfidence in th...

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Meet the Team - Mary Leena Tchenkoue

Mar 17, 2022 Andy Kriebel | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this interview, we get to know Mary-Leena Tchenkoue from Data School Germany. Before joining the Data School, Mary-Leena completed her PhD in Theoretical Physics.

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How to create a chained App in Alteryx?

Mar 17, 2022 Jia Yan Ng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Did you know that we can also switch multiple apps in a row? If not, I’ll showyou how in this blog! As you can see in the GIF above, three apps (seen in thetitle of the window) are created and run one after the other. The idea is thatthe output of...

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Blue and Green things in Tableau. Dimensions and Measures.

Mar 17, 2022 Skomantas Tamulaitis | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Generally speaking everything we use in Tableau can be categorized as either ablue thing or a green thing. But what are these things and what makes them goblue or green?

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How to Remove Unwanted Values (e.g. Nulls) from Tableau Filters

Mar 17, 2022 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Let me guess, you have a value (maybe a null) displaying in a Tableau filter and you want it to go away? You don’t want to leave it just sitting there because it’s ugly and your users are insatiably curious. You know if you leave it they are going...

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InterWorks Receives Three 2021 Tableau Partner of the Year Awards

Mar 17, 2022 Andrea Avey | interworks.com

Every year with Tableau is a good one for us here at InterWorks. We love partnering with them to serve clients and reimagine what the best analytics experiences and solutions can look like. This year, though, we’re especially grateful for this lon...

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Can you navigate a hierarchy?

Mar 17, 2022 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

Sean Miller set this week’s #WOW2022 challenge based on a common requirement – how to allow users to navigate a hierarchy of data while capitalising on the the real estate available to display the data. The charts required for this challenge are v...

Simple Guide to create a Tableau Landing Page

Mar 16, 2022 Jia Yan Ng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog explains how you can use the navigation and URL action in Tableau to create a nice looking landing page for your project.

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Scatterplots, Regression and Correlations

Mar 16, 2022 Carlos Pacheco | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Scatterplots are a great way to visualise data and identify trends andrelationships between variables easily. It also allows us to identify anomaliesand inconsistencies more easily.

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Parameters vs Filters in Tableau

Mar 16, 2022 Kristine Wiesner | www.thedataschool.co.uk

How are parameters different from filters?  This table summarizes the maindifference.

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Meet the Alumni - Nai Louza

Mar 16, 2022 Andy Kriebel | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Nai Louza was a member of DS2, way back in 2015. She is now a Senior Associate at PwC. Nai has tips for applying to the Data School, how to make the most of the training, overcoming imposter syndrome, and career advice.

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Data School Roundup - March 7-13, 2022

Mar 16, 2022 Andy Kriebel | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tableau, Alteryx, project management, how to be successful at the Data School and much, much more in this week’s Data School blog roundup.

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Blue and green pills in Tableau. WHAT DO THEY MEAN?!

Mar 16, 2022 Carlos Pacheco | www.thedataschool.co.uk

One of the first things we notice in tableau when handling our imported data isthat they are colour coded blue and green. If you mess up then you’ll encounterthe colour red, letting you know something wrong.The green and blue, however, what are th...

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Connect to Athena from Tableau

Mar 16, 2022 Fabricia | tarsolutions.co.uk

This is an idiots guide to connect to AWS Athena from Tableau. If you’re struggling, like I was, hopefully this will help! Athena is one … Read moreSource

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Working with DateTime in Alteryx

Mar 15, 2022 Kristine Wiesner | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Alteryx, how many days has it been since I started in Data School that is, fromFebruary 7 until today, March 15? “36 days”.  And how many days old is DataSchool as of today?”2,457 days”.

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Tasty Tableau: Lollipop Charts

Mar 15, 2022 Fergus Smith | www.thedataschool.co.uk

How to create lollipop charts in Tableau

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Project Manager Diary - Day 1

Mar 15, 2022 Sam Search | www.thedataschool.co.uk

And finally after 7 weeks of watching my cohort members take up the role ofProject Manager, it is now my turn. After a short call last week to introducemyself to some of the client’s team, and some initial research over the weekend,we started the ...

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Pie charts 101: making simple pie charts in Tableau

Mar 15, 2022 Caitlin Walsh | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A very quick breakdown of how to make a simple pie chart and donut chart.

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Pie & Donut Charts in Tableau

Mar 15, 2022 Kristine Wiesner | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Pie charts can be an effective visualization when showing part-to-wholerelationships.  Often we see data as 100 percent and we want to know how acertain portion is relative to the total. Pie chart can be useful when we thinkof proportion in relati...

MapLayers,Spatial,makeline,makepoint,Maps,Tableau

How to create your first app in Alteryx

Mar 15, 2022 Robson Hemans-Alexander | www.thedataschool.co.uk

An Alteryx app creates a user interface which allows the user to input custom values or filter out the data to their specific needs. In this example we will be creating a very basic app as an introduction to interface tools within Alteryx.

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First WOW - Workout Wednesday

Mar 15, 2022 Romina Wiechern | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Through last week’s session with Ruth, which introduced us to the world of drilldowns and tableau actions, I got to work on my first Workout Wednesday tasktoday. I picked the task from week 30 “Can you create a drill down using setactions?” (https...

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Title Case in Tableau | Workaround

Mar 15, 2022 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

It is very likely that in the past, when building a Viz, you have found yourself needing to apply some sort of capitalization style or formatting to some of the text fields in a data source. Currently Tableau offers the functions of converting tex...

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Title Case en Tableau | Solución Alternativa

Mar 15, 2022 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

Es muy probable que en el pasado, al construir una Viz, te hayas encontrado con la necesidad de aplicar algún tipo de estilo o formato de capitalización a alguno de los campos de texto de una fuente de datos.  Actualmente Tableau ofrece las funcio...

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Storing SHOW/LIST/DESCRIBE Command Results in Snowflake Tables

Mar 15, 2022 Chris Hastie | interworks.com

In Snowflake, there are several commands you can use to retrieve metadata from the Snowflake environment without using a virtual warehouse. The following are all examples that fit this approach: SHOW – List all objects of a certain type within the...

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Tableau Top Tip: Planning your Dashboard

Mar 14, 2022 Liusaidh Owen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Over my time at the Data School so far, one of the key lessons I have learnt isthat planning and preparation are vital for a successful analysis.  These threesimple steps will ensure your analysis is clear, concise and well presented.

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Saving Workbook in Tableau: TWB vs TWBX - What's the difference?

Mar 14, 2022 Jia Yan Ng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog, I explore what’s at play behind the packaged workbook and the default workbook format in Tableau

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