#MakeoverMonday Week 31 - Bicycle Collisions in London

Aug 4, 2021 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

This week’s data set was pretty straightforward. During #WatchMeViz I iterated through some maps, including joining to spatial files for London, and also lots of time series charts. Below are links to the resources, the video, and the final viz.Re...

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Spatial Analysis in Alteryx Part 1: The Basics - Points, Lines, and Poly...

Aug 4, 2021 Simon Evans | www.thedataschool.co.uk

There are some nifty tools and features to play around with spatial data inAlteryx. But what is spatial data?

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Alteryx Spatial Tools - Part 1 - Create Point & Find Nearest

Aug 4, 2021 Liu Zhang | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Introduction to Alteryx tools for spatial analysis.

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From Urban Planner to Data Analyst: Lynda Chao’s Journey to Tessellation

Aug 4, 2021 Lynda Chao | www.tessellationtech.io

From Urban Planner to Data Analyst: Lynda Chao’s Journey to Tessellation The Early Signs Growing up, I have always enjoyed creative activities; from doodling to ceramics or graphic design, this part of me persisted well into college. I knew I … Re...

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What did it take to make it to DS25? - Final Interview Tips

Aug 3, 2021 Jesus Esquivel Roman | www.thedataschool.co.uk

First blogpost describing my journey during the application process. How I heard about The Information Lab and what I did to learn more about it and ensure a place at the DS25 cohort.

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A short introduction to the Modulo Operator

Aug 3, 2021 Henry Mak | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog post, Henry gives you a short introduction to what the Modulo operator does, some use cases, and the syntax in Tableau / Alteryx.

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Growing Data Analytics Technologies: Getting Started with Snowflake

Aug 3, 2021 Katrina Johnson | www.tessellationtech.io

Growing Data Analytics Technologies: Getting Started with Snowflake If you’ve been around the data or database world for a minute, you’ve probably heard of Snowflake before. It is one of the fastest growing technologies disrupting and improving th...

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Week 17: Finishing the Data School - Reflections | DS23

Aug 2, 2021 Auguste Navickyte | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This post is a reflection after having completed the Data School training.

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Week 16: Getting Data Using API - Alteryx | DS23

Aug 2, 2021 Auguste Navickyte | www.thedataschool.co.uk

An overview of retrieving data via API on Alteryx.

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Using a parameter to calculate percentage change from a chosen year

Aug 2, 2021 Hannah Murphy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A step by step account of how use parameters to compare values from different years on a line chart and how to incorporate them into your dashboards.

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Power BI Beginner Basics: How to Create Toggle Switches and When to Use ...

Aug 2, 2021 Hayley Hadges | www.tessellationtech.io

Power BI Beginner Basics: How to Create Toggle Switches and When to Use Them From the airplane mode switch in phone settings to the switch on your blender, both physically and digitally we use toggle switches everywhere. We interact with … Read Mo...

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InterWorks Blog Roundup – July 2021

Aug 2, 2021 Andrea Avey | interworks.com

We made it another month and are excited to present the July roundup! Last month on the blog, we featured 20 different InterWorkers – including TWO new posts from our fearless leader, Behfar – and published 17 new content pieces aimed at empowerin...

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3 Creative Uses for Relationships/Joins in Tableau

Aug 2, 2021 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

Whether you’re specifying physical joins or leveraging relationships and letting Tableau’s new data model determine which joins to create, joins are a powerful and vital tool in Tableau. They allow you to bring together data from multi...

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Learn what the Data School Learns: An Introduction to Parameters

Aug 1, 2021 Hannah Murphy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The purpose of this blog is to go over the very basics of what I covered in my session, looking at setting up basic parameters and using calculations to dynamically update your visualisations.

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Tableau Row Level Security

Aug 1, 2021 markwu2000@gmail.com | enterprisetableau.com

Data security has been the top concern for Tableau deployment. This is summary of Row Level Security webinar by Zen Master, Mark Wu: What is Tableau Row Level Security (RLS)? What are the implementation options? How to decide which option to use? ...

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DS24 Training Blog - Week 8

Jul 31, 2021 Liu Zhang | www.thedataschool.co.uk

PM project this week for an internal project, trying out different skills.

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Sizing Marks on a Dashboard

Jul 31, 2021 datavis.blog | datavis.blog

Needing to switch back to a sheet to use the size slider is not always ideal for making fine grained size adjustments on dashboards. This tip shows how you can use a parameter directly on a dashboard instead.

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Project Manager - Reflective Blog

Jul 30, 2021 Liu Zhang | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Photo by Jo Szczepanska[https://unsplash.com/@joszczepanska?utm_source=ghost&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=api-credit] / Unsplash[https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=ghost&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=api-credit]Introduction:Jo...

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Forecasting Inventory in Tableau Using Relationships

Jul 30, 2021 Spencer Baucke | www.tessellationtech.io

Forecasting Inventory in Tableau Using Relationships One of my favorite features introduced to Tableau in the past couple of years has the ability to use relationships in data models. If you aren’t familiar with data modeling using relationships, ...

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Live Stream – How Kraft Heinz Saved 5,500 Hours with Analytics Automation

Jul 29, 2021 Analytics Events | www.tessellationtech.io

What to Consider When Selecting Your Business Intelligence Platform Join this one-hour webinar hosted by Alteryx in partnership with Tessellation and the Kraft Heinz Company. We’ll discuss how analytics automation can save thousands of hours in su...

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How to Create a Power BI App

Jul 29, 2021 Gavin Pedersen | www.tessellationtech.io

How to Create a Power BI App We all know that Microsoft Power BI is a robust tool. But did you know that you can create your own Power BI App either for your own use or your end-users? And … Read MoreThe post How to Create a Power BI App appeared ...

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How to Move Axes to the Top of a Worksheet in Tableau

Jul 29, 2021 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Have you ever noticed how axes in Tableau worksheets are always at the bottom? That can feel counterintuitive to end users. They have to go all the way to the bottom of the worksheet and read the axes to determine what the worksheet is trying to c...

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Webinar Replay: Interactive Dashboard Tips & Tricks

Jul 29, 2021 Beth Kairys | interworks.com

Interactive dashboards are where Tableau really comes into its own. As a Creator, you can build something that lets your users explore and answer questions you didn’t even think to design for. But while we know that interactive dashboards are valu...

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Let’s go streaking!

Jul 29, 2021 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

This was a table calculations based challenge, and I always tackle these by building out the data required in a tabular format. The challenge was also reminiscent of a previous challenge Sean has set, which I’ve blogged about here, and admit I use...

Meet and Greet: The Application

Jul 28, 2021 Hannah Murphy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I write up of my presentation for this week’s Meet and Greet. The application process is different for everyone so this is just from my own personal experience. WARNING: This could be a long one!

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Advance with Assist: Highlighting Points of Interest

Jul 28, 2021 Jack Hulbert | interworks.com

Question: I want to allow my user to easily see a custom value that is connected to a highlighted point on my time series chart. How can I do this in a way that can also interact with a dashboard action to give these values…The post Advance with A...

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Four time-saving Windows shortcuts that I've learnt during training

Jul 27, 2021 Henry Mak | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog post, Henry writes about the Windows shortcuts that have cumulatively saved him a lot of time.

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Facebook Prophet Tutorial: How to Use Time Series Forecasting

Jul 27, 2021 Elizabeth Dinevski | www.tessellationtech.io

Facebook Prophet Tutorial: How to Use Time Series Forecasting Dealing with uncertainty is difficult. If we knew exactly what would happen, planning for events and outcomes would be a lot easier. In the case of a business, knowing what is … Read Mo...

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#MakeoverMonday 2021 Week 30 - America's Racial Breakdown by State

Jul 26, 2021 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

Makeover Monday week 30 looked at this viz from Visual Capitalist showing the percentage of each race in each State in America.In the video below, you’ll see my recreate the tiled treemap before creating a tiled bar chart. Thanks for watching!Clic...

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How to Create a Drill Down using Set Actions, in Tableau

Jul 26, 2021 Henry Mak | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog post, Henry explains how to create a drill down functionality in your charts. This is demonstrated using the Superstore data set.

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DS24 Training Blog - Week 7

Jul 26, 2021 Liu Zhang | www.thedataschool.co.uk

First time client project week, some confused and busy times. All hands on deck for the first time.

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Snowflake, Matillion and InterWorks Accelerating Success in Asia-Pacific

Jul 26, 2021 Garrett Sauls | interworks.com

Call it kismet or just plain-old great collaboration, but the relationship between Snowflake, Matillion and InterWorks continues to produce some real data magic. We’ve worked together for a few years now, but 2020 was a particularly notable year (...

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A Little Design Makes a World of Difference

Jul 26, 2021 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

 In late 2019, I started compiling a list of simple design techniques to improve both chart and dashboard aesthetics.  That list grew to 26 in total, but it became more about clarity of charts, how to properly use color, layout…it beca...

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Tableau - Naming Conversion

Jul 25, 2021 Liu Zhang | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Personal tip for naming new calculated fields for easier management and more efficient work flow.

Building a basic timeline in Tableau

Jul 24, 2021 Hannah Murphy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Timelines are a great tool to show the distribution of events in your dashboards and can be tailored to suit almost any purpose! Here are some step-by-step instructions for building them.

Live Stream – How to Use Data Science for Marketing Analytics

Jul 23, 2021 Analytics Events | www.tessellationtech.io

Learn how to use data science for marketing analytics to optimize your future marketing spend and promotions, all using Python. … Read MoreThe post Live Stream – How to Use Data Science for Marketing Analytics appeared first on Tessellation.

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Live Stream – How to Use Data Science for Digital Marketing

Jul 23, 2021 Analytics Events | www.tessellationtech.io

Learn how to use data science for digital marketing to optimize your future marketing spend and promotions, all using Python. … Read MoreThe post Live Stream – How to Use Data Science for Digital Marketing appeared first on Tessellation.

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Dashboard Design Best Practices: The Secrets to Good Prototyping

Jul 23, 2021 Jacob Blizzard | www.tessellationtech.io

Dashboard Design Best Practices: The Secrets to Good Prototyping This blog is the third in a series on prototyping. In this series, our first post walked you through why prototyping will benefit your development process. Our second post lists out ...

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Can you rebuild the Olympic Schedule?

Jul 23, 2021 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

This week’s #WOW challenge was a joint one with the #PreppinData crew, with the intention to use the #PreppinData challenge to create the data set needed for the Tableau challenge. I completed the Prep challenge, but decided to use the output prov...

Tableau Simples #10: Show Empty Rows/Columns

Jul 22, 2021 Henry Mak | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this new blog series, Henry shows you small tips and techniques in Tableau… in a short and simple way. This blog post shows you how to show the empty rows and columns in your charts.

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How to Use Spatial Analysis Tools: Making Custom Shapefiles in Alteryx

Jul 22, 2021 John Emery | www.tessellationtech.io

Making Custom Shapefiles in Alteryx Last night I received a message from my colleague here at Tessellation, Alteryx ACE Nick Haylund. The message was a screenshot from a tweet that displayed an interesting map of the United States. Disregarding th...

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Bringing the Olympics to Tableau!

Jul 22, 2021 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

I was recently reading the book Principles by Ray Dalio (who founded one of the largest hedge funds in the world). He has an interesting mind and displayed a chart for visualizing data over time series, ranking values against each other. He mentio...

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Google Sheets as a Backend with Next.js

Jul 22, 2021 | andredevries.dev

With the data fetching strategies in Next.js you can turn almost any database into your own backend. In this blog post you will learn how I quickly and securely used Google Sheets as a CMS for a static site built with Next.js.

How to find the maximum value in each row across all columns, in Tableau

Jul 21, 2021 Henry Mak | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog post, Henry shows you how to find the maximum value per row across all columns.

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How to Create Network Visualizations in Tableau

Jul 21, 2021 Alex Johnson | www.tessellationtech.io

How to Create Network Visualizations in Tableau Network visualizations display relationships between elements by linking nodes with common characteristics. This allows the user to visualize clusters quickly and determine relationships. Unfortunate...

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