Tableau Number Formatting

Feb 18, 2022 Patrice Tiana Grant | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A quick tip on how to format numbers on a diverging bar chart

Meet the Team - Matty Sweet

Feb 18, 2022 Andy Kriebel | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this chat, we learn more about Matt Sweet from DS27. We talk about how to be successful in the DS, his biggest challenges, and more.

Fundamentals for Building a Dashboard in Tableau

Feb 18, 2022 Andy Kriebel | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Follow along with this free Tableau training session that we ran as part of our roll out of Data School New York. Learn about the Data School and following along with the training.

Adding context to your visualizations

Feb 18, 2022 Mary-Leena Tchenkoue | www.thedataschool.co.uk

It’s been just over a week since I started at the Data School and we already gotto learn a lot of interesting basic concepts about data analysis andvisualization. Last Monday, we got into more details on how to make our datavisualizations better. ...

Web Scraping with Power BI

Feb 17, 2022 Katie Matkin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

We’ve previously learnt how to web scrape in Alteryx and in all honesty it tookme a little while to get my head round.

Various filtering techniques in Tableau

Feb 17, 2022 Nathan Purvis | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Sick of having cluttered visualisations? Looking to filter your data? Here I demonstrate a few useful options for focusing in on certain individuals within your dimensions.

Tooltip Formatting

Feb 17, 2022 Oksana Kirschbaum | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The tooltip is a common graphical user interface element. It is used inconjunction with a mouse pointer. The user hovers the cursor over on one item ormore in the view, without clicking it, and a small box appears with the name ordescription of th...

Organize your table

Feb 17, 2022 Nhung Le | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In analytics in general and Tableau in particular you will work a lot withtable. Not only appearing in input & output data, tables could also be used toshow detailed values in your viz. Hence, tables should be precise and neatlyorganized, in o...

Meet the Alumni - Gheorghie Lang

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

In my first interview with Data School Alumni, I was joined by Gheorghie Lang from DS10. Gheorghie began his training with us in August 2018 and finished his last placement in December 2020.

Interactivity within Tableau

Feb 17, 2022 Frederik Egervari | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tableau lives of its interactivity. It’s one of the features which makes usingTableau fun and can generate an interactive user experience instead of justsimply displaying graphs.

Data viz 101: Color

Feb 17, 2022 Tram Nguyen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Week 2 @ TIL. After having sessions with Martin, Carl and Lorna, our lovelycoaches, we had a class with Andy, who shows me a whole new mindset of how tocommunicate effectively through data visualization. One of the most prevalenttechniques used in...

Adding more detail & context

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

This week it was Kyle’s turn to add a 3rd piece to the dashboard (see challenge here). I chose to build on my previous week’s solution, which you can download from here, so all fields referenced etc will be based on that (ie I may reference fields...

How to Approach Data Analysis

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

Exploratory data analysis in Tableau doesn’t necessary mean building fancycharts. One useful approach to get around what the dataset means is by creating6 different tabs or sheets in Tableau and renaming them using these classicresearch interrogat...

Data Viz 101: Sketching

Feb 16, 2022 Tanya Fischer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Before randomnly throwing together different visualizations on your dashboard you might want to sketch out some ideas. Here’s how.

DSDE2 Week 2 - Visualization with Andy

Feb 16, 2022 Romina Wiechern | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The second week of Data School started with a training session with Andy on topics related to visualization.

How to Create a Barbell Chart

Feb 15, 2022 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

In this tip, I show you two methods for creating a barbell chart. The first method uses two measures and the second method uses one measure split up by a dimension. var divElement = document.getElementById(‘viz...

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Weighted Average in Tableau

Feb 15, 2022 Tulsi Majithia | www.thedataschool.co.uk

What is weighted average: A weighted average is a way to calculate an averagewhere some points contribute more than others.Average vs Weighted Average – Key DifferencesThe key differences between this Average are as follows –The average is the sum...

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Using a Parameter to adjust a Reference Band

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

When comparing trends it is common to use a Reference Band in order to give awider analysis of this - particularly when trying to find outliers within adataset. The default is for Tableau to look at a Minimum and Maximum value forwhatever value is...

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Understanding p-Values

Feb 15, 2022 Jacob Kilroy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog, I go over what you need to know about p-values

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Understanding Box and Whisker Plots

Feb 15, 2022 James Driver | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Using a box and whisker can help us understand the distribution of our data, however they can be a little confusing.

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Linear Regression Analysis in Tableau & Alteryx

Feb 15, 2022 Katie Matkin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

What is Linear Regression Analysis?

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How to do Linear Regression in Alteryx

Feb 15, 2022 Jia Yan Ng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Before jumping to how to configure the linear regression tool in Alteryx, I willexplain the basic idea of the model and the assumptions we made for the data ifwe use it to model our data.

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How to build a Dynamic Control Chart in Tableau?

Feb 15, 2022 Gabriela Mitache | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A control chart can be very useful to analyze the performance of a variable overa period of time. It’s a type of chart that uses standard deviations above andbelow the mean, and allows you to spot any outliers that lie outside the bandscreated aro...

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How to Create Z Score in Tableau

Feb 15, 2022 Alfred Chan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Calculating Z Score in Tableau in order to compare metrics in a more statistical way. This blog will show you how to create Z score in a quick way.

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Alteryx - Week 1

Feb 15, 2022 Giorgia Astheimer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Last week DS29 worked with Alteryx for the first time. In this blog I’m going towork through my thought process and the steps I used with various tools for myvery first workflow. At the beginning of the day Robbin explained how each ofthe tools wo...

Top 10 Things I Wish Tableau Would Change

Feb 15, 2022 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Tableau is a wonderful data visualization tool, but like any software, it has limitations and idiosyncrasies which make it difficult to work with at times. Thankfully, Tableau is aware of this and even created an ideas forum to crowdsource feature...

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Ten Table Tips & Techniques - Round 4

Feb 15, 2022 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

 Photo by LED Supermarket from PexelsWell, I’ve done three previous Ten Tableau Tips blog posts, how about a fourth one?  But this one will include some techniques as well, not just tips.  These are my absolute favorite blog posts to w...

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Meet the Team: Ruth Amarteifoi, Data School Coach

Feb 14, 2022 Sophie Sparkes | www.theinformationlab.co.uk

Get to know more about Data School Coach Ruth AmarteifoiThe post Meet the Team: Ruth Amarteifoi, Data School Coach appeared first on The Information Lab.

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Meet the Team - Viktoriia Slaikovskaia

Feb 14, 2022 Andy Kriebel | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this interview, I had the pleasure of speaking to Viktoriia Slaikovskaia of DS27. who recently passed the Alteryx Designed Advanced exam.

DS29 Training Blog - Week 1

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

Monday – Our first day involved setting up our laptops, learning more about TheData School and Information Lab and getting to know each other.

Being a Project Manager: My Thoughts and Learning

Feb 14, 2022 Alfred Chan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The thoughts and learnings I had as a project manager during the DS training

How to Create a Tableau Scatter Plot Drill Down?

Feb 13, 2022 Alfred Chan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Level of details drill down in scatter plot? This post will demonstrate the steps of creating a scatter plot with drill down interactivity

DS29 - Week 1 - Ups and Downs

Feb 12, 2022 Yana Arkhipenka | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day 1 was frustrated. We were bombarded with information:

DS29 - First Week in The Data School

Feb 12, 2022 Patrice Tiana Grant | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A quick breakdown of my first week in The Data School. Including the challenges, encountering imposter syndrome and what I learnt.

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InterWorks’ Onboarding and the Counterculture

Feb 12, 2022 Mark Cordeiro | interworks.com

For my first blog post, I figured I’d share something personal about myself. I have an extreme affinity—nay, even a love—for what I dub the “counterculture.” I am, by almost all definitions, a hipster. If you call me that, however, I will vehement...

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DS27 Training Blog - Week 17 | The Last Week of Training

Feb 11, 2022 Marius Nikiforovas | www.thedataschool.co.uk

It is official - DS27 are new Data School consultants! Find out what was the last week of training like for DS27, what we have learned and more.

Adding Detail & Context

Feb 11, 2022 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

The assumption is you should be able to build on the challenge solution you have built in the previous week. My solution to the Reference Box challenge is here. I adopted (and blogged about) a table calc solution. However, the published solution u...

Getting into good habits - The DateDIFF function

Feb 10, 2022 Nathan Purvis | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Here I detail how to use the DateDIFF function in order to accurately measure the difference in time between two events, using user-defined units of time.

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Data School Roundup - February 10, 2022

Feb 10, 2022 Andy Kriebel | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This week’s round up covers three Alteryx tips, an insight into the first day at The Data School, and a reflective log about being a Project Manager.

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A Beginner's Guide to Unions and Joins in Tableau Prep

Feb 10, 2022 Sam Search | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Having used Tableau Prep for the past couple of weeks on client projects, Iwanted to share how easy it is to combine multiple data sources using the Joinand Union functions - particularly the ease of configuring these tools beforeactually applying...

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Does Tableau have a PROPER() Function?

Feb 10, 2022 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Does Tableau have a PROPER() function? No! But can we convert strings to proper case anyways with some ingenuity? Probably! Check out this video to learn how you can apply proper case to single word, multiple words and even deal Irish style names ...

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Viz for Social Good: Build up Nepal

Feb 10, 2022 Igor Garlowski | interworks.com

Visualizations can serve different purposes. Whether it’s business reporting, sharing production status or providing a research summary, there are endless applications for dashboards, but they all have one thing in common: storytelling. While we c...

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A True Alteryx First Impression (Week 1 - Days 1-3)

Feb 9, 2022 James Charnley | www.thedataschool.co.uk

DS29’s training is fully underway, getting stuck into a brand new software for all of us - Alteryx!

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How to Create an Enclosed Dot Plot

Feb 8, 2022 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

In this tip, I show you how to create an enclosed dot plot, which is essentially a dot plot that is enclosed by a line. It’s very similar to a barbell chart except the line connecting the dots surrounds to dots. ...

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Tableau Prep - Wildcard Unions

Feb 8, 2022 James Driver | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A quick run through of the Wildcard Union in Tableau Prep

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