DS22 | Dashboard Week Day 5 - Boy Bands

Mar 26, 2021 Simon Evans | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day 5 saw us look at boy bands!

Alteryx,Careers

DS22 Dashboard Week - Day 5

Mar 26, 2021 Pat Lucas | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Its the Final Day of Dashboard Week! Today we looked at Boyband data and I created an Infographic looking at One Direction and its members.

Alteryx,Careers

DASHBOARD WEEK | DAY 5 | MUSIC

Mar 26, 2021 Sadiya Girach | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today’s project was to prep and create a dashboard using data from GitHub

Alteryx,Careers

Webinar Replay: Essential Tips to Optimize Your Tableau Calculations

Mar 26, 2021 InterWorks | interworks.com

We don’t have to re-invent the wheel when it comes to making improvements. It’s about taking what we have done and making minor improvements to improve efficiency. With Tableau to make these minor improvements it often means doing the work in adva...

Data,Assist,calculations,Optimization,Tableau,WebinarReplay

How to Build a Compound Interest Calculator in Tableau

Mar 25, 2021 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Last week, I published a blog post about the power of compound interest and embedded related a Tableau Public dashboard (also below).

TableauDashboards,TableauHow-Tos,Design,TableauCalculations

Women in Tech: Honoring Their Work and Wisdom

Mar 25, 2021 Brandi White | interworks.com

It’s Women’s History Month, and at InterWorks, we have so much to celebrate. The women of InterWorks are some of the most brilliant, thoughtful and kick-ass colleagues I have ever had the pleasure to know. To support our team and the communities t...

Culture,careeradvice,culture,inclusion,womenintech,Women'sHistoryMonth

Can you do Comparative Quantity Analysis?

Mar 25, 2021 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

Like many, I am pretty comfortable using a straightforward FIXED LoD, but rarely get INCLUDE & EXCLUDE ‘out of my toolbox’. I usually end up using them because I’ve followed an example online to achieve a specific task. With this challenge, I ...

"Dashboard week"day 3: Api and Snowflake!

Mar 24, 2021 Tommaso Ferri | www.thedataschool.co.uk

API into Snowflake into Tableau a triple Threat Match between 3 data giants!

DS22 Dashboard Week - Day 3

Mar 24, 2021 Pat Lucas | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Dashboard Week Day 3 was a tough one - we called APIs, created a data table in Snowflake via Alteryx, connected Snowflake to Tableau and created a dashboard!

OAuth with Snowflake and Alteryx

Mar 24, 2021 Aidan Bramel | www.tessellationtech.io

Using OAuth with Snowflake in Alteryx Snowflake and Alteryx are two of my favorite tools. Many organizations choose to authenticate to their roles with Snowflake using OAuth, which isn’t always immediately straightforward when connecting via Alter...

Alteryx,Snowflake

Create a Sunburst Chart with Map Layers in Tableau

Mar 24, 2021 Sebastian Deptalla | interworks.com

It’s rare that a new Tableau feature can be used for so many other use cases beyond those intended. The Tableau community is continuing to find new ways to make the most out of Map Layers, a new feature from version 2020.4. Some are calling…The po...

Data,2020.4,datavisualization,maplayers,sunburstchart,Tableau

How to Create a Parallel Coordinates Plot Over Time

Mar 23, 2021 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

Typically a parallel coordinates plot compares multivariate, numerical data. However, you may want to create a parallel coordinates chart for a single variable over time. In this tip, I show you how to create that chart.Resources:Personal consumpt...

chart,comparison,howto,parallelcoordinates,relativechange,tablecalc,tablecalculation,tableau,timeseries,tip,variance

Data Decision Making: Reporting, Dashboarding and Beyond

Mar 23, 2021 louisa.obrien | www.theinformationlab.co.uk

One common conundrum we work with clients to resolve is how to balance the requirements of the business users who want data, with the best tool for the job. Persona analysis enables new and established data analytics departments to evaluate the re...

Blog,Agile,Data,dataliteracy,management,projectmanagement

Building a dashboard with Alteryx - learn about the Reporting Tools

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

Second day of the dashboard week is Alteryx day!

Blank Character for Navigation Buttons

Mar 22, 2021 Lindsay Betzendahl | vizzendata.com

Not terribly long ago, I wrote about how to use transparent shapes for navigation buttons to use on top ofContinue reading

MondayMinis,Tableau,Tutorial

#WorkoutWednesday 2021 Week 11 - Gapminder: Income vs. Life Expectancy

Mar 22, 2021 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

As Lorna mentions in the week 11 challenge, the key is in the data prep. Once you have that, the visualization is really simple.I did not use the new relationships model; I stuck with the traditional method of unions and a join as that’s the most ...

animation,country,gapminder,hansrosling,highlightaction,income,lifeexpectancy,pages,population,region,scatterplot,scatterplot,WorkoutWednesday

#MakeoverMonday Week 12 - How much do Americans spend on cereals?

Mar 22, 2021 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

Time really flew by on today’s #WatchMeViz. Before I knew it, an hour had passed, I’d built lots of things, and I hadn’t yet decided on my “final” visualization. So instead, I have three this week! Watch the video here to learn how I built these c...

America,BAN,barchart,bumpchart,consumers,consumption,economics,economy,KPI,MakeoverMonday,parallelcoordinates,spending,variance

How to Make a Curved line chart in Tableau? – Part 01

Mar 22, 2021 Rajeev Pandey | vizartpandey.com

Turn a Line chart to a curved chart by adding extra points, that generate smooth lines for a more polished look.The post How to Make a Curved line chart in Tableau? – Part 01 appeared first on Welcome to Vizartpandey.

Home,Tableau,TableauBootcamp,#AdvanceTableau

Alternative Map Projections in Tableau

Mar 22, 2021 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

  If you’ve already read the blog post and you are just looking for the files, you can download them from my Google Drive here.  Otherwise, please check out the full blog post below.******************A map projection is, in its simples...

Maps,Tableau

Tableau Hack: How to Dynamically Highlight Selections in Connected Scatt...

Mar 21, 2021 Maggy Muellner | playfairdata.com

Connected scatter plots can be an extremely powerful chart type when trying to compare relationships… Read MoreThe post Tableau Hack: How to Dynamically Highlight Selections in Connected Scatter Plots appeared first on Playfair Data.

Charttypes,Tips

UK House Affordability Calculator

Mar 20, 2021 Andrew Watson | tarsolutions.co.uk

With house prices in some areas at all time highs, we have built a simple calculator to see where in the UK you can afford … Read moreUK House Affordability CalculatorSource

Tableau,housing,tableau

#WorkoutWednesday 2021 - Week 2: Customer Lifetime Value (CLTV) Matrix

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

If you like a table calc challenge, this Workout Wednesday is for you. Get Ann’s requirements here. On the surface it seems pretty simple:Get the first order date for each customer.Determine the number of quarters that elapsed since then.Calculate...

CLTV,cohortanalysis,customerlifetimevalue,firstorderdate,levelofdetail,LOD,matrix,runningtotal,tablecalc,tablecalcfilter,tablecalculation,tableau,WorkoutWednesday

TIL+ wins “EMEA Data for Good” Tableau Partner Award 2020!

Mar 19, 2021 Andre De Vries | www.theinformationlab.co.uk

It is inspiring when data is used for good! We created TIL+ in 2020 to help NGOs and nonprofits make sense of their data. TIL+ is an initiative of The Information Lab, where we strongly believe in sharing our expertise with data to help drive soci...

News,award

An Introduction to Tableau Sets

Mar 19, 2021 Katrina Johnson | www.tessellationtech.io

A tableau tutorial introduction on how to create three common list scenarios with Sets in Tableau: Top, Bottom, and Other. … Read MoreThe post An Introduction to Tableau Sets appeared first on Tessellation.

Tableau,Tutorial,Uncategorized,tablecalculations,tableau

Advance with Assist: Tableau Server Migrations

Mar 19, 2021 Mitchell Scott | interworks.com

Question: I need to migrate Tableau Server; what are my options? Should I be using something like Azure Site Recovery or AWS AMIs to move my cluster? The Challenges There are a few challenges to using any sort of snapshot-based technology to migra...

Data,AdvancewithAssist,Azure,Migration,Server,Tableau

Compound Interest, The Eighth Wonder of the World

Mar 18, 2021 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

According to a number of questionable sources, Albert Einstein once said “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn’t, pays it.”

Design,ThoughtLeadership

Can you recreate the work of Hans Rosling?

Mar 18, 2021 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

The challenge involves the following key components modelling the data building the scatter chart displaying the year in the chart highlighting the regions Modelling the Data The data provided consisted of 4 files Life Expectancy Population Income...

Mastering Containers in Tableau (Part 2) - Sales Performance Dashboard

Mar 16, 2021 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

Containers…you either love them or hate them. And I want you to learn to love them. In part one of this series, I showed you how to build a simple KPI dashboard with three cards. In the video below, I show you how to build a more complex dashboard...

barchart,containers,context,dashboarddesign,design,filters,floating,formatting,howto,KPI,layout,padding,sparkline,tableau,tiled,tip,tutorial

Letter #1: Analytic PenPals featuring Alteryx and Tableau developers. Wh...

Mar 16, 2021 Jacob Kahn | 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...

Alteryx,journey,PowerBI,Tableau,Tableau360,TableauPrep,TableauServer,TeamChat,analyticpenpals

From Worksheets to Workflows: My Career Change into Data Analytics

Mar 16, 2021 Jacob Kahn | www.tessellationtech.io

From Worksheets to Workflows: My Career Change into Data Analytics 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 ...

Alteryx,Careers

Exploring the New Map Layers Feature in Tableau 2020.4

Mar 16, 2021 Sebastian Deptalla | interworks.com

It took a few years, but Tableau finally made a wish come true that had been long held by a large part of the Tableau community: the ability to visualize more than one layer in a map. With Tableau Desktop version 2020.4, we can do…The post Explori...

Data,2020.4,maplayers,mapping,newfeature,Tableau

#MakeoverMonday Week 11: The World's Largest Cash Crops

Mar 15, 2021 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

What a fun dataset! Thank you for your ideas during #WatchMeViz. Here are the video and final visualization.

cashcrops,containers,filteraction,food,formatting,highlightaction,MakeoverMonday,parameteraction,products,region,timeseries

So what is Data Quality Anyway?

Mar 15, 2021 ryan.lowers | www.theinformationlab.co.uk

Data quality is a very broad term and while it affects us all to some degree on a day-to-day basis we may not necessarily have a concrete understanding of what it means and why it’s important. Even though I work with data on a daily basis I would ...

Blog,dataliteracy

Introducing the Tableau Public Stats Service

Mar 15, 2021 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

If you’ve already read all about the service and just want to access the various links, here is the sign-up form and here is the starter workbook. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, then please read on!   In 2017, I built a vi...

DataViz,How-To,Python,Tableau,Templates

Tableau Null functions: IFNULL, ISNULL and ZN

Mar 14, 2021 Andrew Watson | tarsolutions.co.uk

This post describes the Tableau functions designed to identify and change null values. These functions either identify if a value is null or they are … Read moreTableau Null functions: IFNULL, ISNULL and ZNSource

Tableau,null,tableau

Null Functions in Tableau

Mar 14, 2021 Andrew Watson | tarsolutions.co.uk

This post is to describe the Tableau functions designed to identify and change null values. These functions either identify if a value is null or … Read moreNull Functions in TableauSource

Tableau,null,tableau

GOVERNED SELF-SERVICE ANALYTICS: PUBLISHING (6/10)

Mar 14, 2021 markwu2000@gmail.com | enterprisetableau.com

The publishing process & policy covers the followings areas:  Engagement Process; Publisher Roles; Publishing Process and Dashboard Permissions. First step is to get a  space on the shared enterprise self-service server for your group’s data a...

TableauEnterprise

Alteryx Certification Progression: Core, Advanced, Expert

Mar 12, 2021 Hanna Nykowska | www.theinformationlab.co.uk

Interested in progressing with Alteryx certification? This blog compares all three levels and provides some thoughts on approaching them.The post Alteryx Certification Progression: Core, Advanced, Expert appeared first on The Information Lab.

Blog,AlteryxDesigner

Turning a Tableau Public API into a Dashboard

Mar 12, 2021 Pat Lucas | www.thedataschool.co.uk

My task for our DS project this week was to use the Tableau Public API to create a dashboard of content for as many people that have been through the DS as possible (coaches included if possible).

"The Dog API" Friday Project

Mar 12, 2021 Tommaso Ferri | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Alteryx , flat limitations, Pets and Tableau. What Else?

Live Stream: Transform Your Business Intelligence with Tableau Map Layers

Mar 12, 2021 Analytics Events | www.tessellationtech.io

Join this one-hour data analytics webinar to learn time series forecasting in Alteryx. In this step-by-step Alteryx tutorial, you’ll explore the possibilities of forecasting in Alteryx with John Emery. … Read MoreThe post Live Stream: Transform Yo...

UpcomingLiveStream,Webinar

Testing SQL Pool Performance in Azure Synapse Analytics

Mar 12, 2021 Andras Kovacs | medium.com

Azure Synapse Analytics (SA) went GA (general availability) last December, introducing a remarkable range of functionality that provides a PaaS database and a complete platform for data engineers, data scientists and business users with SQL or Spa...

synapse,azure,sql,data-engineering

Mar 12, 2021 Adam McCann (noreply@blogger.com) | duelingdata.blogspot.com

How to Generate Tableau Extracts Faster

Mar 11, 2021 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

I’ve been working on a project with a client for several months where we are reporting against a sizable data source. Initially that data source took about 1-3 hours to extract locally which was okay. The faster the better, but I could live with it.

Design,ThoughtLeadership

Can you build a “must include” filter?

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

Ann Jackson set this week’s challenge inspired by a business requirement she’d encountered, which was to be able to filter the data based on a user selection, and then additionally apply another filter to narrow down the required data. The task ‘s...