#MakeoverMonday 2021 Week 18 - Realized vs. Granted Compensation for CEOs

May 3, 2021 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

In this session I first reviewed the original visualization, then went into data discovery and analysis before finishing with a new visualization.  Watch the video and interaction with the visualization below.Charts created: Line Chart Stepped Lin...

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QGIS for Tableau Users # 1: Getting Started

May 3, 2021 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

 Kevin and I are incredibly excited to, once again, have Sarah Battersby join us for a guest blog. This post is the first in a multi-part series about QGIS, a free, open source Geographic Information System (GIS) that you can use in conjunction wi...

DataViz,How-To,Maps,QGIS,Tableau

Reflections on the #30DayChartChallenge

May 2, 2021 datavis.blog | datavis.blog

The #30DayChartChallenge ran for the first time in April 2021. This post gives a high-level overview of the challenge, my learnings and links to all the data sources I used.

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#WOW2021 Week 15 - Workout Wednesday Website Analytics

Apr 30, 2021 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

The requirements for week 15 are here. This is another super useful challenge as it helps you develop a dashboard you could easily use in your own organization.My go-to blog post for working with and formatting time is this one from Jonathan Drumm...

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Week 4: Logical Calculations in Tableau | DS23

Apr 30, 2021 Auguste Navickyte | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Overview of logical calculations in Tableau Desktop.

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The difference between standard, batch, and iterative macros

Apr 30, 2021 Henry Mak | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Since Brexit, the mackerel compan… wait, we’re not talking about fishing? Ohhhh, macros… In this blog post Henry explains the difference between standard, batch, and iterative macros.

Careers,Tableau

Nine ways to create calculated fields

Apr 30, 2021 Ali Agah | www.thedataschool.co.uk

There are many ways to create calculated fields in Tableau. Here are nine different ways; each with their own advantages and disadvantages. Which should you use?

Careers,Tableau

How I think through Nested LODs

Apr 30, 2021 Vivien Ho | www.thedataschool.co.uk

So you’re comfortable with general LODs at a particular level of granularity, but how do you feel about working at different levels within the same calculation? This blog will walk you through my particular thought process when it comes to nested ...

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Mastering Business Analytics Across Industries: A Journey to Tesselation

Apr 30, 2021 Jacob Blizzard | www.tessellationtech.io

Mastering Business Analytics Across Industries: A Journey to Tessellation Welcome to our “Journey to Tessellation” series, in which we are sharing the exciting, unconventional, and innovative career paths behind our entire team of consultants. Rea...

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#WOW2021 Week 16 - How Do Sub-Category Sales Compare to the Sub-Category...

Apr 29, 2021 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

Lorna was being very kind with Workout Wednesday Week 16. The chart was pretty simple to build and the LOD required would have been easy enough to write (though I would have used a table calc). However, Lorna wanted us to get familiar with the Qui...

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Tableau Brush Filter Extension

Apr 29, 2021 Joti Gautam | vizartpandey.com

Learn about how to use Tableau brush filter extension which is a great feature to increase the user interactivity and helps filter the dashboard easilyThe post Tableau Brush Filter Extension appeared first on Welcome to Vizartpandey.

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Making The Most of Padding

Apr 29, 2021 Adam Ratcliffe | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This week as part of my Data School training we were recreating a dashboard wefound online.

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Data Lakes vs Data Warehouses

Apr 29, 2021 Penny Richmond | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A data warehouse is a “central repository of integrated data from one or more disparate sources” *. That is to say, a storage place of data from different databases, neatly processed and stored to be used for a specific purpose or pertaining to a ...

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DS23: Macros and a bit of RegEx practise with UK Petitions data

Apr 29, 2021 Joselito Bondoc | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Friday’s project for week 3 at the DS was on UK petitions. After the feedback and realising the dataset I used wasn’t complete, I set myself a little challenge and compiled my own dataset as well as make improvements on my viz.

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A walkthrough of my initial application to The Data School

Apr 29, 2021 Henry Mak | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog post I’ll be giving you a brief walkthrough of my initial application to The Data School. I’ll be going over my thought and design process, as well as some tips. I hope you learn a few things.

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Live Stream – From Padawan to Jedi: How to Quickly Advance Your Data Ana...

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

During this hour-long webinar, join Jedi Master and Alteryx ACE, Nick Haylund, as he imparts his wisdom on how to start a career in data analytics and rapidly accelerate your career path. May the 4th be with you! … Read MoreThe post Live Stream – ...

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All the Sorting Options in Tableau

Apr 29, 2021 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Does sorting in Tableau ever tick you off? Do your users have trouble finding the sort icon on the axis of a worksheet? Are your end users messing up your custom sorts and blaming it on you?

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Adding Percentage Lines to Bars

Apr 29, 2021 datavis.blog | datavis.blog

This post walks through a method to quickly add lines over bars to show segments, which could be used at specific values or percentages.

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Advance with Assist: Site Roles Changing on Tableau Server

Apr 29, 2021 Dustin Wyers | interworks.com

Question: We have a user whose role changed from a Creator to a Viewer overnight, but no one thinks they did it accidentally. Any way to tell who did this? Fun times for server administrators here… I’ve seen this question come across Assist a coup...

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Generation Population

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

For week 17 of #WOW2021, Sean Miller decided to challenge us with recreating a chart by Nathan Yau (see here for the original). The aim was to recreate within 1 sheet, which I managed to do. So how did I do it? Read on 🙂 The groundwork Colouring t...

Using Parameter Actions to Highlight a Segment of a Waterfall Chart

Apr 28, 2021 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

This viz is based on a tutorial from Ryan Sleep, which you can find here. Feel free to download the workbook to see how it’s built.A few techniques covered:Parameter actionsTable calculationsGantt chart to build the waterfall chartHighlightingForm...

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Using Alteryx Macros to Revive My Company Social Life

Apr 28, 2021 Ali Agah | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I used Alteryx to randomly allocate my cohort into groups so we can socialise in smaller groups.

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Tips and Shortcuts: Adding a Ranking and Totals within Tableau

Apr 28, 2021 Irene Diomi | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog post, Irene shares some tips and shortcuts in Tableau.

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Tableau Tips and Tricks

Apr 28, 2021 Harry Osborne | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Here are a few tricks and shortcuts I have learned in Tableau so far.

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Tableau Desktop: Relationships vs. Joins

Apr 28, 2021 Penny Richmond | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Relationships are the initial go-to when connecting data sources in Tableau. They describe how two, independent, logical tables are related to each other (the tables are not merged). Unlike a relationship, a join will combine two tables into one.

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Letter #2: Analytic PenPals featuring Alteryx and Tableau Developers. Wh...

Apr 28, 2021 Autumn Battani | www.tessellationtech.io

Join Autumn Battani, Tableau Expert, and Jacob Kahn, Alteryx Expert, on their pen pal adventure exploring the tools of the others expertise. Autumn and Jacob are ready to share their letters with the public in hopes that the exploration of data pr...

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Deploying multiple AWS Amplify environments on Vercel

Apr 28, 2021 | andredevries.dev

I am working on a large Next.js project that uses Vercel for hosting and some of the backend is provided by AWS Amplify. I had to find a way to link specific Amplify environments to different Git branches and deployment branches on Vercel. This di...

How to Create a Dynamic Quadrant Chart Using a Set Action

Apr 27, 2021 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

A quadrant chart, by definition, is a scatter plot with a background split into four equal sections. Typically, though, the sections are divided up as to how they compare to the average of both axes. In this video, I show you how to make the axes ...

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Dynamically Colouring Negative/Positive BANs

Apr 27, 2021 Harry Beardon | www.thedataschool.co.uk

You’ve created your Big Numbers for a dashboard, but you want the client toeasily identify whether the category is meeting its target. We could set thecolours manually to indicate this, but this isn’t a very good long-term solutionas if you are wo...

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Webinar Replay: What’s New in Tableau 2021.1 (and 2020.4)

Apr 27, 2021 InterWorks | interworks.com

In this recent webinar, we talk Tableau releases, past, present and future. This blog is a thorough recap of that webinar, but if you’re looking to just catch the replay, skip down to the bottom of the post! To frame the discussion, here’s a quote...

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#MakeoverMonday 2021 Week 17 - Price Parity in America

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

In this week’s Watch Me Viz, I covered the following charts: Line chartTrellis chartSlope graphConnected scatter plotBar charts with comparisonsDiverging bar chartsHeatmapHex mapTile mapBarbell chartPeas in a pod chartBump ChartComet chartIn the e...

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It’s SNOWing at The Information Lab ❄️

Apr 26, 2021 Jonathan MacDonald | www.theinformationlab.co.uk

Announcing our new partnership with Snowflake If you’re in any way familiar with The Information Lab, you’ll know that we’ve only partnered with a small handful of data and analytics technology vendors over the years. We started with Tableau in 20...

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Why Would You Want To?: The Circular Sankey Diagram

Apr 26, 2021 Harry Beardon | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Sankey Diagrams are often demonized. Validly so most of the time- they’redifficult to understand and often take too much time to create in terms of whatyou want to demonstrate. I’ve just received news that a Viz of mine[https://public.tableau.com/...

Data

What did it take to get into DS23?

Apr 26, 2021 Andy Kriebel | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The quality of applications for DS23 was astounding! See what is took the team to get into The Data School.

Data

Tableau Simples #2: Creating Folders for Fields

Apr 26, 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 explains how to create folders for fields which can help neaten your workspace.

Data

Makeover Monday Time Trial

Apr 26, 2021 Adam Ratcliffe | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today I will be setting myself a #MakeoverMonday challenge:(up to) 30 minutes to plan, read up on the topic and data and then 1 hour to complete my dashboard. I will document what transpires below.

Data

Macro Magic | DS23 Alteryx Macro Project

Apr 26, 2021 Harry Osborne | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog post I outline the basic definition and uses of Macros in Alteryx, as well as walking through parsing JSON data from a webpage using a Macro.

Data

Wiederholung des Webinars – Deep Dive in die Tableau Leistungsaufzeichnung

Apr 26, 2021 InterWorks | interworks.com

Komm’ zu InterWorks und wir zeigen Dir dieses Mal eine der nützlichsten, etwas verborgenen Tableau Funktionen – die Leistungsaufzeichnung. Lass uns etwas tiefer eintauchen, und Du wirst sehen, wie Du dieses Tableau Desktop Tool einsetzen kannst, u...

Data

Tableau Public APIs Plus a VOTD Data Set

Apr 26, 2021 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

I recently shared details on my new Tableau Public Stats Service, which allows you to sign up to receive a personalized Google Sheet containing your Tableau Public stats, updated daily. The service leverages the Tableau Public API and ...

DataViz,How-To,Python,Tableau

Project (3/10) : Project Leader/owner and their site role

Apr 26, 2021 markwu2000@gmail.com | enterprisetableau.com

My previous blog PROJECT (2/10) : Project Leader’s permission details out all activities can be done by project leader or owner assuming that project leader/owner have the creator or explorer (can publish) site roles. Site role is another very con...

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Embedding Tableau Dashboard within an iFrame

Apr 25, 2021 Pallavi Naik | vizartpandey.com

Learn how to build a single Business dashboard with 360 degree view by embedding multiple dashboards within an iFrameThe post Embedding Tableau Dashboard within an iFrame appeared first on Welcome to Vizartpandey.

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Project (1/10) : Differences between Project Leader and owner

Apr 24, 2021 markwu2000@gmail.com | enterprisetableau.com

Tableau’s project leaders and owner have super powerful built-in privileges. The intent of this project serial is to help project leaders/owner/admins understand and leverage Tableau features better. Everything discussed here applies to both Table...

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PROJECT (2/10) : Project Leader’s permission

Apr 24, 2021 markwu2000@gmail.com | enterprisetableau.com

My previous blog Project (1/10) : Differences between Project Leader and owner talked about differences between project leader and project owner. This blog details out the permission details that project leader has. Before dive into details what p...

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Interact with Tableau Server with tabcmd - export workbooks/views

Apr 23, 2021 Gaia Fantini | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Yesterday, as part of the training at the Data School, I have been introduced tothe Tableau Server command line utility, tabcmd[https://help.tableau.com/current/server/en-us/tabcmd.htm]. It allows tointeract with the server from your local machine...

DataScience,UpcomingLiveStream,Webinar,LiveStream,MLOps

MLOps Explained: What Is Machine Learning Operations?

Apr 23, 2021 Elizabeth Dinevski | www.tessellationtech.io

Uncover the power and potentials of Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) and its importance in the creation of sustainable, scalable data science products. … Read MoreThe post MLOps Explained: What Is Machine Learning Operations? appeared first on ...

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