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How I Went from Summer Camp Counselor to Employee Experience Specialist

Apr 23, 2021 Jade Ong | interworks.com

From a young age, my dad always said to me, “Jade, it is not what you know; it is about who you know that matters.” As I recall each interaction with a stranger that has led to a job opportunity or flourishing friendship, it is…The post How I Went...

Culture,culture,employeeexperience,hellyes,HowIWentFrom

Can you use Quick LoDs to recreate this view?

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

It was Lorna’s turn to set the challenge this week, and she took the opportunity to ask us to use a new feature in Tableau v2021.1 – Quick LoDs (you’ll obviously need v2021.1 to use the functionality, but the LoDs can be created manually in earlie...

How to Create a Dynamic Quadrant Chart Using a Parameter Action

Apr 22, 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 ...

analysis,calculatedfield,chart,color,comparison,context,levelofdetail,parameteraction,quadrantchart,referenceline,scatterplot,tableau,tip,tutorial

Week 3: Parameters in Tableau | DS23

Apr 22, 2021 Auguste Navickyte | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A detailed step-by-step tutorial on how to create some parameters and put them in action in Tableau dashboard.

Alteryx,Technical

Reducing the size of a Tableau Data Extract

Apr 22, 2021 Vivien Ho | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Extracts allow you to save and work with data locally, this generally leads to better performance and offline access. As the extract will be saved locally and could potentially come from a very large dataset, reducing the size can aid in efficiency.

Alteryx,Technical

Building a Drop Down Select Tool in Alteryx: Analytical Applications for...

Apr 22, 2021 Jacob Kahn | www.tessellationtech.io

Building a Drop Down Select Tool in Alteryx: Analytical Applications for Dynamic Data Input Often when building an analytical application in Alteryx, I have to consider that my users will be uploading information that includes different header (i....

Alteryx,Technical

Scalable Machine Learning in Snowflake: Distributed Python from Snowflak...

Apr 22, 2021 Tamas Foldi | medium.com

Enabling Scalable Machine Learning in Snowflake using SQL, Python and BodoThere is no doubt that SQL is the language of data engineering, while Python is the language of data science. For this reason, most database engines have begun to supplement...

tableau,data-engineering,bodo,snowflake,python

How to Use Emojis in Tableau

Apr 22, 2021 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

I recently saw some visuals built in a non-Tableau data visualization tool (not sure which one) that were utilizing emojis in dimension labels. I thought it was a fun way to mix up the standard labeling and text tables we usually see.

Design

The Data School Application Guide.

Apr 21, 2021 Tommaso Ferri | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A DIY anti anxiety guide to the Data School Application with some useful tips!

Design

Tableau Simples #1: Grid Lines

Apr 21, 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 turn on/off grid lines in order to aid dashboard design.

Design

How to make your Alteryx workflow run faster.

Apr 21, 2021 Penny Richmond | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A workflow will run faster when less data runs through fewer tools. Therefore the most straightforward way of reducing our run time is to minimise the volume of data and eliminate the tools we don’t need, or find more efficient ways of processing ...

Design

Advance with Assist: Uncaught Type Error in Tableau Server

Apr 21, 2021 Dustin Wyers | interworks.com

Question: We are seeing this error on Tableau Server after upgrading to 2020.4. Nothing shows in Desktop, but Server throws the below. Any insight? This question has popped up a few times on the Assist desk, so thought I would share what has resol...

Data,AdvancewithAssist,Tableau,TableauServer,Tooltip,typeerror

New Viz: The Beatles According to Adam and Kevin

Apr 21, 2021 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

Man, I love the Beatles! They are my favorite band of all time…by a long shot. My good friend, Adam Mico, also loves the Beatles. Well, one day he asked, “what’s your favorite Beatles song?”. I couldn’t give an answer. It’s a que...

Alteryx Tools: Append Fields vs. Join

Apr 20, 2021 Penny Richmond | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I was a little confused as to which of these tools to use and so I assume otherpeople may be a little confused too. But have no fear.. the difference isstraightforward and easy to understand.

How to Toggle Weekends On and Off a Calendar in Tableau

Apr 20, 2021 Ethan Lang | playfairdata.com

When analyzing any data over time, it is important to understand the seasonality or natural… Read MoreThe post How to Toggle Weekends On and Off a Calendar in Tableau appeared first on Playfair Data.

Charttypes,Tips

COVID-19 Vaccine Dashboard Collaboration

Apr 19, 2021 Lindsay Betzendahl | vizzendata.com

Getting Vaccinated I recently received my first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. It was quite a momentous day actually.Continue reading

DataVisualization,Tableau,Collaboration,COVID,HealthDataViz,UrbanInstitute,Vaccine

#MakeoverMonday Week 16 - The Impact of Covid on Air Travel in America

Apr 19, 2021 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

I struggled to come up with anything interesting this week, but that’s ok. I was still able to explore the data a lot and ended up with a simple dashboard. Check out #WatchMeViz and interact with the viz below.

airlines,barchart,comparison,containers,covid,dashboard,flights,MakeoverMonday,monthovermonth,passengers,tableau,travel,tutorial,UnitedStates,WatchMeViz,yearyear

Tableau online Dashboard – How to do Auto-Refresh every 5 min?

Apr 19, 2021 Rajeev Pandey | vizartpandey.com

In this data-driven world, every business relies heavily on data to make decisions for the future.The post Tableau online Dashboard – How to do Auto-Refresh every 5 min? appeared first on Welcome to Vizartpandey.

Home,Tableau,TipsandTricks,#BusinessDashboard

DS23: Using padding to create white space and other things.

Apr 19, 2021 Joselito Bondoc | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this post, I’ll talk about the difference between inner and outer padding and how they can be used in dashboard design and other visualiations to add white space.

DS23: My journey so far… 1 week in

Apr 19, 2021 Henry Mak | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog post, Henry gives a short introduction to himself, a summary of his first week at The Data School, and some of his thoughts on the future.

A look at the Unique tool in Alteryx.

Apr 19, 2021 Penny Richmond | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The unique tool is used to remove duplicate data entries from a dataset.

Learn to Build this Sectional Radar Chart and Other Non-Traditional Charts

Apr 19, 2021 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

Although I rarely do anything like this when building business dashboards, in my personal work, I love building non-traditional charts. I know that in most cases, they are not the quickest to insight and to be perfectly honest, they ...

How-To,Tableau

Week 2: Colours in data - less is more | DS23

Apr 16, 2021 Auguste Navickyte | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Colours in data visualisation - what are the guidelines?

Alteryx,PredictiveTools,Webinar

Data School Week 2: All Things Tableau | DS23

Apr 16, 2021 Harry Osborne | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In Week 2 at the Data School, DS23 got stuck in with Tableau, learning from the ground up, culminating in a presentation on a surprise dataset.

Alteryx,PredictiveTools,Webinar

DS23: Intro to Data Viz 101 and a makeover!

Apr 16, 2021 Joselito Bondoc | www.thedataschool.co.uk

After being taught Data Viz 101, Andy tasked us with doing #MakeoverMonday for this week! Here, I talk about what I did for my own makeover of this NBA referees dataset.

Alteryx,PredictiveTools,Webinar

The Top 5 Best Alteryx Predictive Tools

Apr 16, 2021 John Emery | www.tessellationtech.io

The Top 5 Best Alteryx Predictive Tools Whether you’re combining data sets, cleaning a nasty spreadsheet, or constructing a sophisticated predictive model, Alteryx has great tools to help you out. But with so many options, new or inexperienced use...

Alteryx,PredictiveTools,Webinar

A Tableau Accessibility Journey - Part III - Color Contrast and Font Size

Apr 16, 2021 Chris DeMartini | www.datablick.com

This post is a continuation of A Tableau Accessibility Journey - Part II, which discusses how to set focus order correctly in your Tableau visualization. The first part of this series includes a number of accessibility issues that were identified ...

Accessibility,BlogPosts,Tableau

Mastering Tableau Date Calculations - Webinar Recording

Apr 15, 2021 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Tableau provides flexibility when working with dates, but sometimes getting it to do exactly what you want requires a custom touch.

TableauDates,TableauCalculations

Tableau Website Analytics

Apr 15, 2021 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

This week’s #WOW2021 challenge by Ann Jackson is focussed on dashboard design/layout, reference lines and formatting time, so that will be the focus of this blog too. I’m hoping it might be a fairly short post this week 🙂 Filtering the data Creati...

How to Calculate a Z-Score

Apr 13, 2021 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

A Z-score is a numerical measurement that describes a value’s relationship to the mean of a group of values. Z-score is measured in terms of standard deviations from the mean. If a Z-score is 0, it indicates that the data point’s score is identica...

analysis,calculatedfield,color,comparison,context,distribution,howto,standarddeviation,tablecalculation,tableau,tip,tutorial,z-score

Week 1: First Alteryx Project | DS23

Apr 13, 2021 Auguste Navickyte | www.thedataschool.co.uk

First Friday project at the end of Week 1 at Data School.

Alteryx,Careers

Sketching My Dashboards | My New Favourite Tool: Excalidraw

Apr 13, 2021 Ali Agah | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Sketching your ideas is an important step in creating a Dashboards. Excalidraw is my new favorite tool for this!

Alteryx,Careers

DS23: First project and presentation

Apr 13, 2021 Joselito Bondoc | www.thedataschool.co.uk

First friday project! The task was to improve our original application to the DS using supplementary data. Here I give an overview of my plan, Alteryx workflow, any issues encountered and what I learnt!

Alteryx,Careers

Connecting Alteryx to Snowflake

Apr 13, 2021 Pat Lucas | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog outlines the key steps to connect Alteryx to Snowflake to create data tables within your Snowflake Instance

Alteryx,Careers

Live Stream – Power BI Power Hour: Build an Amazing Report from Start to...

Apr 13, 2021 Analytics Events | www.tessellationtech.io

During this webinar, Spencer Baucke will walk you through precisely how to create a compelling business intelligence report in Power BI in under 60 minutes. … Read MoreThe post Live Stream – Power BI Power Hour: Build an Amazing Report from Start...

PowerBI,UpcomingLiveStream,Webinar,LiveStream

Live Stream – MLOps Explained: Turn Data Science Models into Sustainable...

Apr 13, 2021 Analytics Events | www.tessellationtech.io

During this one-hour webinar, learn how to future-proof your data science solutions by improving your machine learning operations (MLOps) with Data Science Lead, Elizabeth Dinevski. … Read MoreThe post Live Stream – MLOps Explained: Turn Data Scie...

DataScience,UpcomingLiveStream,Webinar,LiveStream,MLOps

Advance with Assist: Adding ALL Selection to Parameters

Apr 13, 2021 Dustin Wyers | interworks.com

Question: I have a parameter list, and I know Tableau can’t allow multi-select with them yet, but if I wanted to add an ALL selection, how would I do that? Maybe someday Tableau will have the option for multi-select parameters, but for now it does...

Data,AdvancewithAssist,parameters,Tableau,TableauTraining

#MakeoverMonday 2021 Week 15 - Fouls Called by NBA Referees

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

The original viz for this week was so good that I struggled to come up with something different. In the end, I wanted to learn by recreating the original. Check out #WatchMeViz and interact with the viz below.

basketball,bumpchart,dotplot,filter,highlight,MakeoverMonday,NBA,parallelcoordinates,parameter,random,rank,referee,smallmultiples,sports,tableau,trellischart,z-score

Makeover Monday, One Week In | DS23

Apr 12, 2021 Harry Osborne | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Having completed our first week of Alteryx-focused tasks and challenges, Week 2saw my DS23 cohort move back to the application we have grown to love - Tableau.

Alteryx,Careers

#MakeoverMonday 2021/W15: Fouls Called By NBA Referees

Apr 12, 2021 Henry Mak | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today after a day of Data Viz 101 with Coach Andy, we were tasked with applying what we learnt to this week’s Makeover Monday dataset. This week’s dataset is all about the fouls called by NBA referees over both the regular season and playoffs. Rea...

Alteryx,Careers

A Data Scientist’s Journey: From Evening Hobby to Full-Time Career

Apr 12, 2021 Zac Zinda | www.tessellationtech.io

Welcome to our “Journey to Tessellation” series, in which we’re sharing the exciting, unconventional, and innovative career paths behind our entire team of consultants. Read on to discover how Zac Zinda, one of our newest consultants, switched car...

Careers,DataScience,CareerInsights,Hiring,PowerBI

A Business Analyst’s Journey: From Evening Hobby to Full-Time Career

Apr 12, 2021 Zac Zinda | www.tessellationtech.io

Careers,DataScience,CareerInsights,Hiring,PowerBI

Date Calculation Cheat Sheet

Apr 12, 2021 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

For some time now, I’ve maintained a cheat sheet for various calculated fields that I find myself using (or sharing) regularly. I recently noticed how many of these calculations were date-related. It occurred to me that it would be nic...

How-To,Tableau,Templates

DS23: First experiences with Alteryx

Apr 10, 2021 Joselito Bondoc | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Our first week of training at the Data School was in data prep. and in this post I give a quick overview of how we built our first Alteryx workflow together!

Alteryx,Careers

Optimal Transport Problem with Python and Tableau

Apr 10, 2021 Alex | coolbluedata.com

The optimal transport problem or the Monge-Kantorovich transportation problem is a linear programming problem about the optimal transportation plan from departure points to destination points, with minimal transportation costs. Solving transport p...

English,python,tableau