DS 28 - Tableau Prep Project

Feb 25, 2022 Gabriela Mitache | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog serves as documentation for DS28’s Tableau Prep project.

Week 2 Project: England x Germany

Feb 24, 2022 Nathan Purvis | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A recap of our week 2 project, which saw us collaborate with a member of DSDE2 in order to build and present a dashboard about UK COVID data!

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Week 2 Project - DS29 & DSDE2 Collaboration

Feb 24, 2022 Liusaidh Owen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For our Friday project this week we were partnered up with a member of the DataSchool Germany team and were given the challenge of analysing a Covid relateddataset and presenting our dashboard of findings together over zoom.  This was ahuge challe...

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The challenges of "The Challenges"

Feb 24, 2022 Patrice Tiana Grant | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tips for approaching Alteryx Challenges and make solving them easier. Including gif examples for step by step.

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The best way to tackle an Alteryx Weekly Challenge

Feb 24, 2022 James Charnley | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Alteryx Challenges can be a beast - so give yourself the best chance possible to finish!

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Snowflake Task creation(Scheduler)

Feb 24, 2022 Tulsi Majithia | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A task can execute a single SQL statement or a call to a stored procedure.Taskscan be combined with table streams[https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/streams.html] for continuous ELTworkflows to process recently changed table rows. Streams en...

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Meet the Team - Nhung Le

Feb 24, 2022 Andy Kriebel | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this video, I chat with Nhung Le from our second Data School cohort in Germany. Nhung is one of seven women in DSDE2.

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Alteryx Inputs

Feb 24, 2022 Giorgia Astheimer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Two fundamentals when it comes to inputting data efficiently into your workfloware evident when you have multiple text files (csv) to import that have similarnames or when you need to import multiple sheets from one excel file (xlsxetc.).

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Adding custom colour palettes to Tableau in 3 easy steps

Feb 24, 2022 Robson Hemans-Alexander | www.thedataschool.co.uk

On demand palettes are extremely useful when creating your viz, you can easily access your favourite colours to inject a own personal touch to your design.

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How to Add Leading Zeros to a Field in Tableau

Feb 24, 2022 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Do you have a field that needs leading zeros added? Maybe a postal code or ID that got formatted as a number and as a result dropped the leading zeros? If that’s the case, check out this video for a couple alternatives to get those leading zeros a...

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Upgrading Ruckus Unleashed AP with SSH

Feb 24, 2022 Warren Sinor | interworks.com

Sometimes, things don’t work the way you want them to. Sometimes, things break. It can be frustrating when the GUI for a process is not responding, and you have to find a way to get around it using the backend. This blog post will show…The post Up...

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Let’s switch those measures!

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

It was time for Lorna to add her iteration to the dashboard challenge that’s been set over the last few weeks. The challenge this week was to incorporate a measure swap control which allows the user to select which measures they want to compare. L...

Top Tipps für eine erfolgreiche Zeit in der Data School

Feb 23, 2022 Robin von Malottki | www.thedataschool.co.uk

   Nutze die Community

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The Alteryx Designer Core Certification

Feb 23, 2022 Tanya Fischer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today I passed the Alteryx Core Certification exam and would like to share my experience, so that you know what to expect and how to prepare.

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Tableau - Discovering Case, When and Then

Feb 23, 2022 Sam Search | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I recently created and uploaded a dashboard to my Tableau Public accountcomparing 8 different Quarterbacks in the NFL and their performance during thefirst 17 games of the season (which can be found here: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/sam...

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Meet the Alumni - Christopher Marland

Feb 23, 2022 Andy Kriebel | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this interview, I chat with Christopher Marland from DS17. Christopher recently finished his training and placements at The Data School and is now working at CBRE in London.

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Data School Roundup - February 23, 2022

Feb 23, 2022 Andy Kriebel | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This roundup covers best practices for data visualization from Data School Germany.

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Real Life Dashboards - Actuals vs Projections

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

 In 2022, my intention is to share a bunch of “real life” dashboards that I created for and use at work.  These dashboards were built for my specific business and for very specific use cases, but my intention will be to mock up data th...

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How to Displays Multiple Measures on Multiple Rows

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

In this tip, I show you how to create a chart with multiple rows, one row has three measures and the other row has two measures. AND all of the measures are on a single worksheet. var divElement = document.getE...

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User Activity in Tableau Server

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

In today training, we look into the Tableau Server Repository (AKA the Workgroups Database[https://tableau.github.io/tableau-data-dictionary/2019.4/data_dictionary.htm]).Essentially, it is the place where Tableau stores information about TableauSe...

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Tableau Server Analysis - Comments

Feb 22, 2022 Alfred Chan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A quick walk through of our day of doing analysis in our company’s Tableau server and a bit of insight we found.

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Schedule and Task on Tableau server repository

Feb 22, 2022 Tulsi Majithia | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Task and Schedule can be defined below:

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PostgreSQL - Looking under the hood of Tableau Server

Feb 22, 2022 Jacob Kilroy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog, we have a quick look at PostgreSQL

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PostgreSQL

Feb 22, 2022 Katie Matkin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

“The PostgreSQL repository database that powers Server is a maze of confusingtables and cryptic, often incomplete, data” (https://github.com/tableau/community-tableau-server-insights)

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My Iron Viz Journey - NFTs: Art in the Metaverse and Digital Future

Feb 22, 2022 Alisha Dhillon | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog looks at my process in submitting an entry for Iron Viz and the importance of asking for help.

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Exploring Tableau Server Repository - PostgreSQL

Feb 22, 2022 Gabriela Mitache | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The Tableau Server repository is  a PostgreSQL database that holds informationabout all user interactions, extract refreshes, domain details and more.Accessing the repository and using the data in it helps better understandTableau Server Performan...

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Connecting to Postgres Tables in Tableau Desktop

Feb 22, 2022 James Driver | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Manually connect up to your Tableau server data within Tableau Desktop

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Analysis of my Dashboard - Workbook Creation in our Tableau Server

Feb 22, 2022 Sam Search | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today’s project was to have a look into the Tableau Server data for TIL and finda certain aspect of the Server to analyse and visualise. For mine, I’ve had alook at the data recorded on workbook creation and to see if there are any timetrends asso...

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Use Cases with KPIs: New Possibilities with Tableau Map Layers

Feb 22, 2022 Igor Garlowski | interworks.com

Layers have brought many new possibilities to Tableau. Previously, my colleague Rowan described in detail how to use layers with maps, which was the main intention behind this feature. However, I recently discovered some other helpful uses for the...

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Tableau Desktop Specialist

Feb 21, 2022 Lukas Halim | vizartpandey.com

Tableau Desktop Specialist certificationThe post Tableau Desktop Specialist appeared first on Welcome to Vizartpandey.

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Web Scrapping with Alteryx

Feb 21, 2022 Jia Yan Ng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog, I explain how I scrapped the Alteryx Weekly Challenges Webpage to get the data for my viz in Tableau

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WTF is Alteryx?

Feb 21, 2022 Alban Halili | www.thedataschool.co.uk

If you’re like me, you hadn’t heard of Alteryx before the data school. So what exactly is it? Here’s a good analogy: if Tableau is a shiny flat screen TV, then Alteryx is the bundle of cables hidden behind stand. Alright… maybe that doesn’t give A...

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Using the Multi-Field Formula tool in Alteryx

Feb 21, 2022 Nathan Purvis | www.thedataschool.co.uk

If you’re looking to apply an expression to multiple columns at the same time then you can utilise the Multi-Field Formula in Alteryx to do just that!

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Using the Cross Tab and Transpose tools

Feb 21, 2022 Liusaidh Owen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog post will give information on how to use two very important tools:cross tab and transpose.  They are each used to pivot the data, meaning it iseasy to get their functions confused.

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Transpose VS Cross Tab

Feb 21, 2022 Yana Arkhipenka | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Both layout tools which is pivoting orientation of data but in opposite way toeach other

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Transform Your Data

Feb 21, 2022 Giorgia Astheimer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog covers how to transform your data in Alteryx using the Transpose andCrosstab tools.

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Simplifying the Transpose Tool

Feb 21, 2022 Patrice Tiana Grant | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A quick run through of an Alteryx challenge DS29 worked through using the transpose tool.

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Project Management

Feb 21, 2022 James Driver | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A guide through the challenges of project management.

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Multi-Field Formula vs Multi-Row Formula in Alteryx

Feb 21, 2022 Robson Hemans-Alexander | www.thedataschool.co.uk

These are two essential tools for any Alteryx user. The ‘Multi-Field Formula’ is used when applying calculations across different fields (or columns) and the ‘Multi-Row Formula’ for rows.

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How Transpose and Cross Tab make Tableau life easier

Feb 21, 2022 James Charnley | www.thedataschool.co.uk

DS29 jumped right back into where they left off with Alteryx, and learned some great tools that help to make Tableau life easier!

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Fundamentals for Building a Dashboard in Tableau with Ann Jackson

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

Follow along with this free Tableau training session with Data School New York Head Coach Ann Jackson.

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Row Level Security in Tableau

Feb 21, 2022 Fabricia | tarsolutions.co.uk

Use row level security in Tableau to control who is able to see what data within a Tableau dashboard and Tableau data source. I tend … Read moreSource

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Travel/Drive-Time Maps in Tableau by Marc Schønwandt

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

 Today I’m honored to be hosting a guest post by Marc Schonwandt. Marc has been doing some really cool work in Tableau recently, so if you haven’t already done so, go follow him right away. Marc is a Tableau and Alteryx Lead consultant and Tableau...

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How to Create a Date Drill Down Action Dashboard in Tableau?

Feb 20, 2022 Alfred Chan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog will demonstrate how to create a date drill down dashboard using the Superstore dataset

Week 2 Friday Project: A DSDE2 & DS29 Collaboration

Feb 19, 2022 Kristine Wiesner | www.thedataschool.co.uk

What’s gonna work? Zoomwork…I mean Teamwork!  I had the pleasure to virtuallymeet James Charnley today, the Biologist and aspiring author from DS29. Weworked on the UK Covid-Deaths database, compared our Tableau work and prepared apresentation wit...