Meet the Team - Frederik Egervari

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

Meet Frederik Egervari from Data School Germany. He has strong feelings for Alteryx, find the half day Friday projects challenging and has a passion for space travel. 🚀

Data,datavisualization,design,KPIs,Tableau,UX

Webinar Replay: Tableau 2021.4 – New Feature Review

Mar 4, 2022 Rowan Bradnum | interworks.com

Convenience is the focus of Tableau’s 2021.4 release, with several long-sought-after features finding their way into your hands. Here, we break down the key changes and updates included in this release. Tableau Dashboards Copy and Paste Now, Table...

Data,2021.4,maplayers,Server,Tableau,WebinarReplay

Our Favorite InterWorks KPI Designs of 2020-2021

Mar 4, 2022 Baylee Field | interworks.com

While it’s March and not January, the Experience Design team has been reflecting on some of our favorite work from the last year or so as we look ahead to the rest of 2022. Our team consistently works on a variety of Tableau and dashboarding…The p...

Data,datavisualization,design,KPIs,Tableau,UX

Using Salesforce Accelerators

Mar 3, 2022 Sam Search | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When starting off using Salesforce, the amount of raw data provided can be quitedaunting as there are often multiple tables with many fields within them.Fortunately, Accelerators are available online as templates to help provide someexamples of ty...

News,Matillion,monthlyblogroundup,onboarding,Server,SSH,Tableau

Use set, if you don't like filtering a lot!

Mar 3, 2022 Tram Nguyen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When I was creating my viz, I always wonder myself, how to see and highlight thedata pattern with tightly specific conditions which the normal filter couldnever meet. Thanks to set you can compare and ask questions about a subset ofdata. Sets are ...

News,Matillion,monthlyblogroundup,onboarding,Server,SSH,Tableau

Salesforce Standard Connection in Tableau and Prep? What are they and why?

Mar 3, 2022 Alfred Chan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog will demonstrate how to connect tableau to salesforce’s standard connection and how to replicate them in tableau prep

News,Matillion,monthlyblogroundup,onboarding,Server,SSH,Tableau

Salesforce - How to add a filter to an embedded dashboard

Mar 3, 2022 Gabriela Mitache | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For the purpose of this blog, I will be using a Mock dataset created withMockaroo (if you want to learn more about how to use Mockaroo check this[https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/kieran-lyddon/creating-mock-datasets-with-mockaroo]blog created by Ki...

News,Matillion,monthlyblogroundup,onboarding,Server,SSH,Tableau

Salesforce Data Loader

Mar 3, 2022 James Driver | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The data loader tool will provide us with a way of uploading and extracting ourSalesforce data based on specified fields. You can find a link to the dataloader here: https://www.azul.com/downloads/?os=windows&package=jdk[https://www.azul.com/d...

News,Matillion,monthlyblogroundup,onboarding,Server,SSH,Tableau

Meet the Team - Tanya Fischer

Mar 3, 2022 Andy Kriebel | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this interview Tanya Fischer, from Data Germany, has super valuable for interviewing at the Data School, and an eye opening response to what she’d love to do for one day.

News,Matillion,monthlyblogroundup,onboarding,Server,SSH,Tableau

How to connect salesforce to Tableau Prep

Mar 3, 2022 Jia Yan Ng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog explains how we can connect the salesforce account to Tableau Prep

News,Matillion,monthlyblogroundup,onboarding,Server,SSH,Tableau

Embedding Dashboards on Salesforce (The Old Way)

Mar 3, 2022 Katie Matkin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

There are a couple of different ways we can Embed a Dashboard on Salesforce. Inthis blog I’m going to talk through what Lorna refers to as ‘The Old Way’ the dothis.

News,Matillion,monthlyblogroundup,onboarding,Server,SSH,Tableau

How to Remove 'Abc' From a Worksheet in Tableau

Mar 3, 2022 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Have you ever created a worksheet in Tableau only to have the dreaded ‘Abc” text sitting there as a distracting eyesore for your users? You don’t have to live with that! Check this video out for a few methods which can help you get rid of that pes...

TableauHow-Tos,TableauGeneralKnowledge

InterWorks Blog Roundup – February 2022

Mar 3, 2022 Andrea Avey | interworks.com

And just like that, the first quarter of the year is nearly finished! We’ve been busy here at InterWorks, dreaming up new ways to expand products like Curator by InterWorks and strategizing around how to enhance the agility, efficiency and impact ...

News,Matillion,monthlyblogroundup,onboarding,Server,SSH,Tableau

How many patients were admitted every 15 minutes?

Mar 3, 2022 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

This week, Luke set the challenge which is focussed on manipulating time. Medical admissions over many days is represented in a bar chart which spans a 24 hour period. All admissions needs to be ‘bucketed’ into 15 minute intervals over the 24 hour...

What is Tableau Server and why should we use it?

Mar 2, 2022 Nathan Purvis | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A quick rundown of Tableau Server and why organisations may consider using it.

TableauHow-Tos,TableauGeneralKnowledge

Top 3 uses of Tableau Server

Mar 2, 2022 Liusaidh Owen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

During training today we spent some time learning about Tableau Server.  Havingheard of Tableau Server before and always wondering why it exists when there isthe option of using Tableau Desktop or Public, I was interested to learn aboutwhen it mig...

TableauHow-Tos,TableauGeneralKnowledge

The easiest ways to refresh extracts in Tableau Server

Mar 2, 2022 James Charnley | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Documenting the easiest ways to refresh extracts in Tableau Server, to keep the perks of working with an extract but with up to date data.

TableauHow-Tos,TableauGeneralKnowledge

Tableau Tip: Filtering made easy

Mar 2, 2022 Patrice Tiana Grant | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A blog detailing the easy use of filtering within Tableau Desktop. Showing an improved version of my original final application Viz.

TableauHow-Tos,TableauGeneralKnowledge

Tableau Server Permissions & Capabilities Overview

Mar 2, 2022 Robson Hemans-Alexander | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tableau server employs best practice security, in which all users areautomatically denied permissions to any given content unless stated otherwise.As shown in the Tableau help page [https://www.tableau.com/support/help?] diagram below:

TableauHow-Tos,TableauGeneralKnowledge

Tableau Server Permissions

Mar 2, 2022 Giorgia Astheimer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

One important feature used in Tableau Server are the permissions that can be setto a project, workbook or data source for specific users and user groups.Uploading sensitive content to Tableau Server without setting permissions forthe users could l...

TableauHow-Tos,TableauGeneralKnowledge

Meet the Coach - Martin Pohlers

Mar 2, 2022 Andy Kriebel | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In my first “Meet the Coach” interview, I had the pleasure of talking to Martin Pohlers, Head Coach of The Data School Germany.

TableauHow-Tos,TableauGeneralKnowledge

Level of Detail Fixed Expression by a simple example

Mar 2, 2022 Tram Nguyen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In your workbook, sometimes you want to break down data into more details inorder to gain better insights as per dimension. A measure can be calculateddifferently each time you choose a different level of dimension as basis. Forexample, the averag...

TableauHow-Tos,TableauGeneralKnowledge

Downloading Midi Data and Visualizing Music

Mar 2, 2022 James Driver | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Midi data can help us understand music through the visual medium. This blog will help you to access it.

TableauHow-Tos,TableauGeneralKnowledge

Demystifying the Iterative Macro in Alteryx

Mar 2, 2022 Jia Yan Ng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Using an example from the Alteryx Refresher training, I highlighted some key points that I think are important to understanding how iteration works in an iterative macro in this blog

TableauHow-Tos,TableauGeneralKnowledge

Demystifying Iterative Macro in Alteryx

Mar 2, 2022 Jia Yan Ng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The underlying logic of how iteration for iterative macro works in Alteryx wasfuzzy to me at first. Yesterday we got the chance to revisit the topic in ourAlteryx refresher training and did some more exercises. To solidify myunderstanding of how t...

TableauHow-Tos,TableauGeneralKnowledge

Data School Roundup - March 2, 2022

Mar 2, 2022 Andy Kriebel | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This week there are 38 blog from the team covering Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep, Tableau Server, Alteryx, Snowflake and more.

TableauHow-Tos,TableauGeneralKnowledge

Create fictional data using Mockaroo

Mar 2, 2022 Sam Search | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In today’s training we discovered Mockaroo - a really handy tool for creating afictional dataset which is also free to use! I expect this will be very usefulin the not-so-distant future when the data I am using for a project is fairlylimited and s...

TableauHow-Tos,TableauGeneralKnowledge

Complex Relative Date Filters in Tableau

Mar 2, 2022 Alban Halili | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Setting a last 3 months relative date filterWhen you bring a date field into thefilters marks card, you have the option to use a relative date filter. Thisallows you to set a filter that dynamically changes the view as time passes. Forexample, in ...

TableauHow-Tos,TableauGeneralKnowledge

API's & Alteryx: Fetching Historical Bitcoin Prices

Mar 2, 2022 Jacob Kilroy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog I walk you through how to use API’s to pull historical Bitcoin prices

TableauHow-Tos,TableauGeneralKnowledge

Inside InterWorks: IT Lead

Mar 2, 2022 Amy Finley | interworks.com

I recently caught up with Amy Finley, InterWorks IT Lead, to talk about her role and why her team is one of the best around. As the ServerCare Operations Lead, she oversees and supports her team in their work managing and monitoring client servers...

Culture,culture,InsideInterWorks,IT,recruiting,ServerCare

How to Create a Dual Axis Chart with One Dimension and One Measure

Mar 1, 2022 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

This tip comes from a comment from a viewer. They wanted to know how they could build a dual-axis chart based on a single dimension (e.g., Order Date) and a single measure (e.g., Sales). In this tip I show you how to compare the monthly sales for ...

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An Introduction to Alteryx Macros

Mar 1, 2022 James Charnley | www.thedataschool.co.uk

After taking our Alteryx core cert last week, DS29 have moved on to Macros. This blog should hopefully cover the basics of the difference between types of macro in Alteryx.

How-To,Tableau

5 things about container I wish I had known when I first learnt Tableau

Mar 1, 2022 Jia Yan Ng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

5 tips about Container in Tableau I wish I had known on day 1 when I used Tableau

How-To,Tableau

Tackling the Alteryx Designer Core certification

Feb 28, 2022 Nathan Purvis | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A brief overview of the Alteryx Designer Core certification, my thoughts on the process and a small handful of tips to help with the exam!

More Than One Way to Skin a Cat...in Tableau (Part 1)

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

 Disclaimer: this is part 1 of a two-part series.  When both parts have been shared, a link to part 2 will be shared here.  No cats (or any other animal) were harmed in the development of this blog post.  Please note that some of these...

How-To,Tableau

NEW FEATURE FRIDAY | TRIFACTA

Feb 25, 2022 joe.stokes | www.theinformationlab.co.uk

New Feature Friday was an awesome initiative started internally by our CTO to ensure we are, as a company, across any new tools and features released within our field. Last week on our call we explored Trifacta. What is Trifacta? Trifacta advertis...

Blog,Alteryx,Cloud,ETL,NewFeatureFriday,Trifacta

What did it take to get into DS28?

Feb 25, 2022 Andy Kriebel | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The final interview dashboards for DS28 were nothing short of spectacular. Check out what it took to get into DS28.

Tableau Prep: Stock market, crypto and gold historical prices

Feb 25, 2022 Tulsi Majithia | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Historical price data can be used by investors and analysts to back-test pricingmodels or investment strategies, to mine data for patterns that have occurred inthe past, or to detect technical indicators for day traders, among other uses.

Tableau Prep Project - Business Opportunity Dashboard

Feb 25, 2022 Sam Search | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Our project for this week was to create a workflow in Tableau Prep which couldbe used by the public to analyse some data should they be interested in doingso. The idea for my workflow was to enable anyone who is interested in findingout financial ...

Tableau Prep Flow Guide - The World Bank

Feb 25, 2022 James Driver | www.thedataschool.co.uk

GOALS - As an NGO, you would want to explore global health information toanalyse where you should focus your actions for the biggest impact. We wouldwant to see an overview at a top level, and also some interesting insights intothe biggest problem...

Tableau Prep - Cleaning World Trade Data

Feb 25, 2022 Alfred Chan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Using Tableau Prep to clean up world trade data, this blog will demonstrate data cleansing using Tableau Prep in a few steps

Rankings in Alteryx

Feb 25, 2022 Alban Halili | www.thedataschool.co.uk

If you have used Tableau, you will have noticed that there are four differenttypes of rankings you can assign to a table. Here I will explain one way ofachieving each of these in Alteryx. We will use one simple sales data setthroughout, shown below.

Meet the Team - Kristine Wiesner

Feb 25, 2022 Andy Kriebel | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this chat with Kristine Wiesner from Data School Germany cohort 2, we learn about how a career in energy and financial management led her to The Data School, her strengths, challenges and her hobbies.

How to Clean Public Data with Tableau Prep Builder: UK Crime, Population...

Feb 25, 2022 Jacob Kilroy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

There is plenty of public data provided by various governing bodies that you canaccess yourself. One such dataset is Crime reporting data, provided by https://data.police.uk/.

Global Education & Employment - Tableau Prep Project

Feb 25, 2022 Katie Matkin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The access to education is something that many of us take for granted at a youngage. There are many, many countries globally that don’t have the access toschools or education like we do.