My Iron Viz 2021 Entry - The History of Iron Viz

Jun 14, 2021 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

 Well, Iron Viz season is once again upon us.  To be perfectly honest, before the announcement, I would have told anyone and everyone that the chances of me competing were 0.0%.  It’s not that I don’t absolutely love Iron Viz, it’s bec...

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DS24 Training Blog - Week 1

Jun 13, 2021 Liu Zhang | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Weekly blog on Data School Training and Notes

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Flow Chart Template

Jun 12, 2021 Toan Hoang | tableau.toanhoang.com

As a Tableau Zen Master, I volunteered time to support non-profit organisations. One of the organisations had an interesting requirement, and as this was static one-off data visualisation, I decided to rapidly put together an Excel Template and a ...

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Return to Where You Came From: How to drill down to one report from two ...

Jun 11, 2021 Lindsay Betzendahl | vizzendata.com

This may be a very specific use case, but I actually have needed this technique twice in the past year.Continue reading

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My first week in DS24

Jun 11, 2021 George Pattinson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

My first week in DS24 has been a blast! This blog shares my first week’s experience with Alteryx which culminated in a presentation of my work on Friday afternoon.

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My Application Process - Get stuck in

Jun 11, 2021 Garth Turner | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A walk through of my application process and why it was so unique.

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Walk This May: A Tableau Data Viz

Jun 11, 2021 Scott Matlock | interworks.com

Throughout the month of May 2021, InterWorks and members of the Stillwater, OK, public were challenged to create teams of two-five amblers to compete in a daily steps challenge. Affectionately titled the Walk This May challenge, the competition en...

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Sales Goal Selection Tool

Jun 11, 2021 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

Ann Jackson set this week’s #WOW2021 challenge, based on a recent ‘real world’ situation she had encountered. Analysing Ann’s solution (by interacting with her published solution), I deduced we’d need to use set actions to add and remove the selec...

How To Create a Reference Box in Tableau

Jun 10, 2021 Henry Mak | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog post, Henry shows you how to create a reference box using distribution bands and fill.

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How to Compare the Last Complete Week to the Previous Complete Week in T...

Jun 10, 2021 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

I was recently working on a project where we wanted to compare weekly performance, but it only made sense to compare weeks once they were complete. As a result, we routinely came across situations where we wanted to compare the last full week to t...

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Webinar Replay: Transform Tableau with Machine Learning

Jun 10, 2021 InterWorks | interworks.com

Visual analytics have emerged as a crucial business activity. Tableau is the best-in-class platform for this and has unlocked the ways businesses can see and understand their data. As a result, organizations are eager to do more and more with the ...

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PYD109 – Learning About Tableau 2021.1

Jun 10, 2021 InterWorks | interworks.com

Today on Podcast Your Data: Learning, InterWorks Communications Manager, Garrett Sauls, hosts InterWorks Analytics Consultant Danny Steinmetz. They talk through the highlights of Tableau’s latest release, version 2021.1, including the impact of so...

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Parameter actions and Highlight calculations

Jun 9, 2021 Hannah Murphy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For my first blog as part of the Data School, I decided to look back at some of the elements I included in my original application. I thought this was a really nice technique to add an interactive layer to my dashboard without compromising space a...

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Colouring Above or Below an Average Line

Jun 9, 2021 Harriet Owen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Adding context to graphs can help the user understand more about what the data points mean faster. One method is to add colour to show whether a data point sits above or below a specific reference value. This blog highlights two options to achieve...

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Inside InterWorks: Platforms Architect

Jun 9, 2021 Andrea Avey | interworks.com

At InterWorks, we really love our jobs – not just because we do cutting-edge work that keeps us creative and our skills in tip-top shape, but also because we’re a part of a sensational data and tech community that includes our clients, partners an...

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Date Comparisons in Tableau, Part 1: Creation

Jun 9, 2021 Beth Kairys | interworks.com

Date comparisons are one of the most common queries to hit our InterWorks Assist team. Whether you’re in finance, sales or a call centre, you’ve no doubt been asked to compare results in a current period to those in another period. This two-part b...

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How to Create a Dot Strip Plot

Jun 8, 2021 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

Dot strip plots are a space-efficient method of laying out ranks across multiple categories. They are useful for showing the distribution of small data sets. For larger data sets, a histogram would be a more effective visualization.In a dot strip ...

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Why are populated Date & Time fields Null on Tableau?

Jun 8, 2021 Ali Agah | www.thedataschool.co.uk

These values are clearly not Null as String but return as Null when converted toDate & TimeTableau is normally clever with Date fields and Date & Time fieldsbut it’s not perfect.

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Mastering the Network Analysis Tool in Alteryx

Jun 8, 2021 John Emery | www.tessellationtech.io

Mastering the Network Analysis Tool in Alteryx Alteryx comes packaged with lots of tools. Although there are over 200 tools to choose from, most users will never need to wander far from the standards: Select, Formula, Join, Summarize, and friends....

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Quick Q&A: Why We Like RUCKUS / CommScope for Enterprise Wireless Networ...

Jun 8, 2021 Garrett Sauls | interworks.com

Over the past few months, we’ve talked with technology champions and partner managers from across InterWorks to see what makes our technology partnerships so great. As a full-spectrum IT and data solutions company, we partner with all sorts of dif...

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#MakeoverMonday 2021 Week 23: The Percentage of Never Married is on the ...

Jun 7, 2021 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

This week I iterated through 12 charts and a dashboard in 50 minutes. Once again, I ended up with a bar chart. They’re rarely going to let you down. The only other bit I added was the thinner bar showing the change from 2006 to 2016.Resources:Fina...

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A Reflective Log of My First Client Project

Jun 7, 2021 Henry Mak | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog post, Henry writes about his first client project as part of his training at The Data School. This includes what happened and his thoughts and feelings, overall.

Datafam Colors: A Color Palette Crowdsourcing Project

Jun 7, 2021 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

A couple of weeks ago, I saw the following tweet from Rodrigo Calloni:  Should @tableau open a contest asking the #datafam to share their favorite color pallets? And then include those in the out of the box pallets (naming them after t...

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Week 10 (almost): Snowflake & SQL Challenges | DS23

Jun 4, 2021 Auguste Navickyte | www.thedataschool.co.uk

SQL code examples for beginners.

Snowflake (SQL): Inputting Tables from Prep, REGEXP_REPLACE, COLLATE(), ...

Jun 4, 2021 Henry Mak | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog post, Henry writes about his experience of using Snowflake (SQL) to solve a Preppin’ Data challenge. This blog post covers: Inputting Tables from Prep, REGEXP_REPLACE, COLLATE(), and Exporting as CSV/TSV.

SQL meets Preppin' Data | The Ultimate Data Crossover Event

Jun 4, 2021 Harry Osborne | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A snowflake is the perfect analogy for this exercise: deceptively intriguing, but belies the inhospitable and unrelenting environment of SQL. This blog post details my progress through several Preppin’ Data challenges, entirely in Snowflake and SQL.

Regex in Snowflake: escaping character \

Jun 4, 2021 Ali Agah | www.thedataschool.co.uk

If you’re using backslash sequences (e.g. \d) on Snowflake’s Regex functions, you may have wondered why it doesn’t work as expected. Here’s the fix!

Prepping Data with Snowflake

Jun 4, 2021 Irene Diomi | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Using Snowflake to prep your data. Irene will take through how she tackle #PreppinData challenge week 1 of 2021 with Snowflake.

Preppin' Data on Snowflake

Jun 4, 2021 Ali Agah | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This is how I solved Preppin’ Data Challenge 2021 week using SQL on Snowflake.

Preppin' Data in Snowflake: Week 2, 2021

Jun 4, 2021 Harry Beardon | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog aims as a walkthrough of how to complete the Preppin’ Data Week 2,2021 [https://preppindata.blogspot.com/2021/01/2021-week-1.html] challenge usingSQL queries in Snowflake.

Preppin' Data in Snowflake: Week 1, 2021

Jun 4, 2021 Harry Beardon | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog aims as a walkthrough of how to complete the Preppin’ Data Week 1,2021 [https://preppindata.blogspot.com/2021/01/2021-week-1.html] challenge usingSQL queries in Snowflake.

Preppin Data in SQL?!?

Jun 4, 2021 Adam Ratcliffe | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For this week’s Friday Project DS23 were tasked with attempting 2021 weeks 1-4 of the Preppin Data Challenges.This was just one day after our first SQL training and despite Coach Carl being impressed at our ability to pick it up, this project was ...

Preppin' Data Challenges Using SQL/Snowflake

Jun 4, 2021 Joselito Bondoc | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For this week’s Friday project (week 9 of DS training), Coach Carl tasked uswith using SQL to complete Preppin’ Data challenges! So in this post, I will bedocumenting the steps I take to solve (or not solve) these challenges!

How to Force a Category in an Area Chart to the Bottom, in Tableau

Jun 4, 2021 Henry Mak | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this post, Henry shows you how to force a category within a field to the bottom of an area chart. This will make an area chart easier to understand for the end-user.

Tableau Simples #7: Hiding Sheets

Jun 3, 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 post shows you how to hide and unhide sheets in your dashboard.

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Making Spatial Grids in Alteryx

Jun 3, 2021 Harriet Owen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

If you are looking to create a grid-like style map this blog will help you by demonstrating how to use the Make Grid tool in Alteryx all the way to what this looks like in Tableau.

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Grouping values in Tableau Prep Builder

Jun 3, 2021 Joselito Bondoc | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A quick introduction of grouping values by fuzzy match in Tableau Prep Builder!

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Generating a Heat Map in Alteryx and Visualising in Tableau

Jun 3, 2021 Joselito Bondoc | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Creating heat map pologyons using the Heat Map tool in Alteryx and then using Tableau to visualise it.

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Month to Date vs. Previous Month to Date in Tableau (Video)

Jun 3, 2021 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Sometimes, when analyzing your business, you want to know how values month to date compare to this same point last month. We wrote a post about how to write these calculations in Tableau a while ago, but we’ve updated our methods and have some sim...

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DataWomen Event Recap: Work After COVID

Jun 3, 2021 Beth Kairys | interworks.com

Earlier this month, we ran the second-ever panel for DataWomen. DataWomen is a data network that hosts regular webinars, runs a mentoring program, hosts a LinkedIn group and shares valuable content and resources to bolster the broader data communi...

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Can you structure the unstructured?

Jun 3, 2021 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

As soon as I saw that Candra’s challenge for this week was going to involve Regular Expressions (RegEx), I gave a little groan. RegEx just isn’t my thing 😦 I only ever seem to use them for these challenges, and not in my working life, so have mini...

Week 9: Density Map with Hexbins - Tableau | DS23

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

How to create an interactive density map using hexbins?

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Update an Alteryx file without losing your Tableau progress

Jun 2, 2021 Harry Osborne | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog post, I will explain a simple workaround to avoid losing your progress if you need to update your Alteryx output file.

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Tableau Simples #6: Different Decimal Places in the Axis and Tooltip

Jun 2, 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 post shows you how to have a different amount of decimal places in the axis and the tooltip.

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Mapping in Tableau - User Adjustable Hexbins

Jun 2, 2021 Harry Beardon | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today I will show you how to create a user adjustable hexbin when mapping inTableau. Essentially it will group points on your map within a specified radius.This technique can be useful when you have a lot of points on your map and youwant to reduc...

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