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Week 6: Tableau Desktop Certified Associate - Exam Prep | DS23

May 14, 2021 Auguste Navickyte | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I passed my Tableau Desktop Certified Associate Exam!

Careers,DataScience,careeradvice,CareerInsights,JourneytoTessellation

Snowflake: Unique Features

May 14, 2021 Tommaso Ferri | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Lets take a look to some cool and unique Snowflake Features: let it snow!

Careers,DataScience,careeradvice,CareerInsights,JourneytoTessellation

Brain dump before Tableau Certification

May 14, 2021 Harriet Owen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog provides some key notes on geocoding, spatial and other specific data connections.

Careers,DataScience,careeradvice,CareerInsights,JourneytoTessellation

From Cocktail Shaking to Analytics Enablement: My Journey to Tessellation

May 14, 2021 Gavin Pedersen | www.tessellationtech.io

From Cocktail Shaking to Analytics Enablement: My Career Journey to Tessellation Welcome to our “Journey to Tessellation” series, in which we’re sharing the exciting, unconventional, and innovative career paths behind our entire team of consultant...

Careers,DataScience,careeradvice,CareerInsights,JourneytoTessellation

Mapbox Data Visualisation Component

May 14, 2021 datavis.blog | datavis.blog

Mapbox recently added a data visualisation component to Mapbox Studio, which enables the creation of custom spatial data visualisations using imported data directly within Mapbox. This blog walks through how to create a map of Airbnb locations in ...

Spatial,Mapbox,Tableau

A Closer Look at Tableau 2021.1: Quick LODs

May 14, 2021 Danny Steinmetz | interworks.com

TL;DR: Quick LOD calcs make LODs easier, which is slightly concerning. However, this could lead to some major time saving and teaching opportunities if the feature is built upon. Great New Feature, Great Responsibility When Tableau added Quick LOD...

Data,2021.1,levelofdetail,newfeatures,quickLODs,Tableau,TableauTraining

A breakdown of the Tableau Data Model

May 13, 2021 Harriet Owen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Ever even heard of the Tableau data model? I hadn’t. However understanding the fundamentals of what it is and how it will influence the way in which your data is queried in Tableau is essential to reaching your desired data set-up prior to analysis.

Alteryx,Tableau,UpcomingLiveStream,Webinar,DataLineage,DataManagement,LiveStream,Metadata,tableau

Live Stream – Mastering Metadata: How to Leverage Tableau Metadata API i...

May 13, 2021 Aidan Bramel | www.tessellationtech.io

Join this data analytics webinar to learn precisely how to use Alteryx to unlock the potentials of Tableau Server Metadata API with data management expert, Aidan Bramel. … Read MoreThe post Live Stream – Mastering Metadata: How to Leverage Tableau...

Alteryx,Tableau,UpcomingLiveStream,Webinar,DataLineage,DataManagement,LiveStream,Metadata,tableau

No Python? No Problem. The Secret to Living Connections on Tableau Public.

May 13, 2021 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

I’ve known for several years that Google Sheets is the only data source which Tableau Public can automatically refresh for users. Until a few weeks ago, I had never tried to set up a living connection between Tableau Public and a routinely updated...

TableauHow-Tos,Data,GoogleSheets

Tricks of the Trade: Custom Number Formatting in Tableau

May 13, 2021 David Siegel | interworks.com

Sometimes, little tricks can save you a lot of time. At InterWorks, we work with clients in industries of all shapes and sizes, so I asked around amongst our many consultants for the tips they use most in their day-to-day work. What I heard back…T...

Data,Dashboarding,formatting,specialcharacters,symbols,Tableau,TricksoftheTrade

Regional Sales Readout

May 13, 2021 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

The challenge this week from Ann Jackson was all about map layers, a feature introduced in v 2020.4. As an extra twist Ann specified that you couldn’t use table calculations or LoDs, and that the viz should all be on a single sheet. The key featur...

How to Create a Time Series Drilldown with a Set Action

May 12, 2021 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

In this video, I show you how to use a set action to drill down from a monthly view to a daily view. This technique will work with any date drill down, whether it be year to quarter, year to month, quarter to day, etc. ...

analysis,calculatedfield,chart,datavisualization,drilldown,drillup,drilldown,graph,howto,path,setaction,tablecalcfilter,tablecalculation,tableau,timeseries,tip,tutorial

Tableau Simples #5: Emphasising The Last Point On A Sparkline

May 12, 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 two ways to emphasise the last point on a sparkline.

TableauHow-Tos,Data,GoogleSheets

Threshold Analysis - Level of Detail Expressions vs. Table Calculations

May 11, 2021 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

DS22 is nearing the end of their training and today was a bit of a refresher. One of the questions I wanted them to answer was how many sub-categories in each region had sales above $40,000?We then expanded that to include (1) the sales for those ...

analysis,challenge,DataSchool,filtercalculation,gym,levelofdetail,LOD,percenttotal,runningtotal,tablecalc,tablecalculation,tableau,threshold

Lets talk about Bins ! (Tableau)

May 11, 2021 Irene Diomi | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog is an introduction to bin, Irene goes through how she uses it her visualisation.

Alteryx,AlteryxTwoMinuteTools,Technical

A Proper Core Workout | Passing the Alteryx Core Certification

May 11, 2021 Harry Osborne | www.thedataschool.co.uk

My best advice for anyone thinking of taking the Alteryx Core Certification exam.

Alteryx,AlteryxTwoMinuteTools,Technical

8 tips for the Alteryx Core Certification exam

May 11, 2021 Henry Mak | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog post, Henry gives his eight tips for the Alteryx Core Certification exam.

Alteryx,AlteryxTwoMinuteTools,Technical

Alteryx 2-Minute Tools: How to Use The Input Data Tool

May 11, 2021 Nick Haylund | www.tessellationtech.io

Welcome to our latest data analytics video series in collaboration with Data Coach: Alteryx 2-Minute Tools. Every Tuesday, we’ll share a brief Alteryx tutorial video that will teach you step-by-step how to use one of the 200+ most powerful, essent...

Alteryx,AlteryxTwoMinuteTools,Technical

A Tableau Prep Primer: Its Ideal Use Cases

May 11, 2021 Igor Garlowski | interworks.com

Tableau Prep is a part of the Tableau stack, and many of our users can benefit from having it in their BI portfolio. However, there are a few downsides of using this product users should bear in mind. Knowing what Tableau Prep is not designed…The ...

Data,datapreparation,datatransformation,ETL,Tableau,TableauPrep

#MakeoverMonday 2021 Week 19 - The Cost of 1GB of Mobile Data in Every C...

May 10, 2021 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

This was my first time making a World Tile Map (thanks for the template to Neil Richards). Download the template here. In my version, you can view the cost overall or you can compare to a selected country. The title will update automatically depen...

analysis,animation,change,color,comparison,cost,dashboard,levelofdetail,LOD,MakeoverMonday,mobiledata,tableau,variance,WatchMeViz,worldtilemap

The Top 5 Jenkins Plugins You Should Have in 2021

May 10, 2021 Chimed Altandush | medium.com

If you’ve been working with open-source automation server Jenkins for some time or have worked with Jenkins in different organizations, then you know that, like other open-source tools, the experience can vary vastly based on how the team is maint...

jenkins,software-engineering,jenkins-pipeline

Ten Tips including "Create a Hex Map Without Adding a Data Source"

May 10, 2021 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

 It’s difficult to write tips blogs posts when Jeff Shaffer has posted a tip every day for the better part of a year.  But every now and then I run into one I haven’t seen from him, throw it into a document, then write it up when I hav...

Viz Journal | Chess

May 9, 2021 | priyapadham.com

Hi everyone! This is officially my first blog post on my new website, solet’s get this party started!I thought I would document my viz process, from why I decided to create a viz to the design choices, as well as any ups and downs along the way.I ...

tableau,alteryx,visualisation,tv

New Viz: The Law & Order Universe

May 8, 2021 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

I’ve always loved the Law & Order shows. My favorite is Special Victims Unit because it has so many great characters—Olivia Benson, Elliot Stabler, and who doesn’t love Ice T as Fin Tutuola! I recently started re-watching SVU and s...

DataViz,PopCulture,Tableau

Tableau Tips - Volume 21: Forecast Tips

May 8, 2021 | dataplusscience.com

Tableau Tip volume in 2021- Volume 21. In this short post, I will share seven tips focused on forecast function in Tableau.

Creating Custom Sort Headers

May 7, 2021 Lindsay Betzendahl | vizzendata.com

This may not come as a surprise, but I love enhancing client Tableau dashboards with simple effects that make someone’sContinue reading

DataVisualization,Tutorial,Businessdashboard,Customsorting,Headerbuttons,SamParsons,Smallmultiples,Tableausorting,UserExperience

Week 5: Alteryx Designer Core Certification - Exam Prep | DS23

May 7, 2021 Auguste Navickyte | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I passed my Alteryx Design Core Certification Exam!

Alteryx,Tableau,UpcomingLiveStream,Webinar,DataManagement,LiveStream,Metadata,tableau

Resource guide for Alteryx Designer Core certification

May 7, 2021 Harriet Owen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Need a guide to the different resources out there to prep you for the Alteryx Designer Core certification? Read this blog!

Alteryx,Tableau,UpcomingLiveStream,Webinar,DataManagement,LiveStream,Metadata,tableau

Congratulations, you've got yourself a date! | '2021-05-07' Calculations

May 7, 2021 Harry Osborne | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A brief rundown of some of the main 2021-05-07 functions available in Tableau.

Alteryx,Tableau,UpcomingLiveStream,Webinar,DataManagement,LiveStream,Metadata,tableau

A Little Label Trick

May 7, 2021 Adam Ratcliffe | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Just a quick trick today. I discovered this quite early on in my Tableau journeyand it made me feel like a wiz, despite being only a small formatting change.

Alteryx,Tableau,UpcomingLiveStream,Webinar,DataManagement,LiveStream,Metadata,tableau

Live Stream – Mastering Metadata: How to Leverage Tableau Metadata API i...

May 7, 2021 Analytics Events | www.tessellationtech.io

Join this data analytics webinar to learn precisely how to use Alteryx to unlock the potentials of Tableau Server Metadata API with data management expert, Aidan Bramel. … Read MoreThe post Live Stream – Mastering Metadata: How to Leverage Tableau...

Alteryx,Tableau,UpcomingLiveStream,Webinar,DataManagement,LiveStream,Metadata,tableau

How to Sort Multiple Tables in Tableau

May 7, 2021 Sebastian Deptalla | interworks.com

Sorting a single table is easy in Tableau Desktop, although the degree of control varies from method to method: Click on the Sort button in your top menu. Click on the Sort button next to your column/row header. Right-click on the dimension on Row...

Data,desktop,parameter,parameteractions,sort,Tableau

New Viz: The Cicadas are Coming - a Collaboration with Jeffrey Shaffer

May 7, 2021 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

 If you don’t already know, the cicadas are coming!  Brood X is the largest of the 15 cicada broods (families) and they only emerge from underground once every 17 years!  Their goal?  Sing, mate, and die.  I’ve experienced the Brood X ...

Two ways to stop users clicking where you don't want them to

May 6, 2021 Ali Agah | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Sometimes there are items on the dashboard that you just don’t want your usersto interact. Here I teach you two tricks I learned from Andy’s channel[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTlX7UpqASrldmx5_CpG3CA].

TableauDashboards,TableauGeneralKnowledge,TableauHow-Tos

My thoughts and feelings going into the Alteryx Core Certification exam

May 6, 2021 Henry Mak | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog post, Henry gives a brief overview of his thoughts and feelings running up to his Alteryx Core Certification Exam.

Alteryx,Tableau,UpcomingLiveStream,Webinar,DataManagement,LiveStream,Metadata,tableau

How To Swap Charts In Tableau

May 6, 2021 Sadiya Girach | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Sometimes it is nice to give the user an option of how they would like to visualise the data. You can do this by using a parameter to swap between the charts.

TableauDashboards,TableauGeneralKnowledge,TableauHow-Tos

Tableau Worksheet Action Filter Not Working From Totals

May 6, 2021 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

I recently learned something crazy about Tableau. If you add a total to your worksheet and then try to filter another worksheet by selecting a total value, it doesn’t work! Maybe you’ve experienced this too and thought you were crazy. The unexpect...

TableauDashboards,TableauGeneralKnowledge,TableauHow-Tos

Can you performance tune this workbook?

May 6, 2021 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

This week’s #WOW2021 challenge was a bit different. Rather than being challenged to recreate a viz, Candra challenged us to performance tune a workbook she’d put together, with the aim for all steps to be sub 0.5s. I started by downloading the slo...

Tableau Simples #4: Commenting in Calculated Fields

May 5, 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 two ways to comment within calculated fields and some reasons why.

Careers,careeradvice,CareerInsights,Hiring

Career Insights: One of the Most Important Skills You Need to Succeed in...

May 5, 2021 Alex Christensen | www.tessellationtech.io

“Ambiguity brings out the best and worst in people.” – Luke Stanke, co-founder of Tessellation What I Look For in When I’m Hiring a Data Analytics Consultant What makes a good employee? What makes an outstanding data and analytics consultant? … Re...

Careers,careeradvice,CareerInsights,Hiring

How to Create a Layered Hex Map with a Spatial File

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

In this tip, I show you how to use a spatial file to overlap hexagons on a map. This technique is much simpler, looks better, and is easier to maintain.Typically when you want to create an overlapping hex map, you will use a template that has x/y ...

comparison,dualaxis,hexinhex,hexmap,howto,layering,layers,map,mapping,overlap,spatial,tableau,tip

Tableau Simples #3: Expand/Collapse Folders

May 4, 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 quickly expand/collapse your folders for your (calculated) fields.

Tableau,tableau

5 Neat Functions in Tableau

May 4, 2021 Harriet Owen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Last week during training Carl went through all the possible functions (there’s a lot!) that can be used in calculated fields in Tableau and so, I have summarised 5 functions I found cool and look forward to implementing in my analysis.

Tableau,tableau

What to do when stuck in Tableau

May 4, 2021 Andrew Watson | tarsolutions.co.uk

No matter how good you are with Tableau, at some point you’ll come across a problem where you need help. Whether it’s issues with Desktop, … Read moreSource

Tableau,tableau

InterWorks Blog Roundup – April 2021

May 4, 2021 Andrea Avey | interworks.com

May the fourth be with you! We blinked, and suddenly, we’re deep into 2021. It’s been a long year – I’m sure you don’t need us to tell you that – but as a new quarter begins and the seasons change, we’re feeling something in…The post InterWorks Bl...

News,culture,design,monthlyblogroundup,Tableau,UX

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