Extracting Data from API and Parse JSON in Tableau Desktop - Part 2

Nov 5, 2024 Le Luu | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In the first part, I introduced what is API and its process. I also walked through some main points about the JSON structure, extracting data from API in Python, and in Tableau Desktop with TabPy. However, the JSON structure in the first blog is s...

AuthorExperience,Engineering,Intermediate,TableauDesktop,TipsTricks

Creating Buttons in Tableau to Control Dynamic Zone Visibility

Nov 5, 2024 Salome Grasland | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Enhance your Tableau dashboards with interactive buttons to toggle between views using Dynamic Zone Visibility and custom shapes.

AuthorExperience,Engineering,Intermediate,TableauDesktop,TipsTricks

How to Mask Survey Results in Tableau

Nov 4, 2024 Felicia Styer | playfairdata.com

Anonymous survey analysis has one key challenge – how do we incorporate categorical and demographic information while protecting the participant’s…The post How to Mask Survey Results in Tableau appeared first on Playfair Data.

AuthorExperience,Engineering,Intermediate,TableauDesktop,TipsTricks

Can you join two spatial files to find the intersection

Nov 4, 2024 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

It was Kyle’s turn to set the challenge this week. Like him, I don’t have a need to use map / spatial data much, so whenever there’s a WOW challenge involving them it always makes me think a bit harder (and usually refer to some documentation). Co...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2024,Bar,DashboardActions,filteractions,Intersects,Map,MapLayers,SpatialFiles,SpatialJoin,Week44

Whats the Difference between Arrays and Structs

Nov 1, 2024 Edward Hayter | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Arrays and structs are essential for understanding data organization in BigQuery. This blog will clarify what each of these structures is, how to identify them in BigQuery, and when to use them in table structures.

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Extracting Data from API and Parse JSON in Tableau Desktop - Part 1

Nov 1, 2024 Le Luu | www.thedataschool.co.uk

API stands for Application Programming Interface. According to the Postman page, API is a set of protocols where different software components communicate and transfer data. The client will send the request when they need to get the data. Then, de...

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Tableau FIXED LODs Not Filtering Dimension and Context Filters

Oct 30, 2024 Ollie Linley | onenumber.biz

FIXED LODs are wonderful because they allow us to aggregate our measures at a chosen Dimension level, regardless of the level of detail of the worksheet. However, they aren’t affected by Dimension Filters, because they’re calculated before Dimensi...

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Enumerated and Computed Sets Whats the Difference

Oct 30, 2024 Kirsty Wall | interworks.com

This blog topic was born out of a training course I delivered which always brings new questions and observations. No matter how often I do them, I’m always learning something myself. It concerns the ability to expose sets once they been created to...

Data,dashboards,sets

Tag To Protect Keep Your Data Safe with Object Tagging in Snowflake

Oct 29, 2024 Barbara Hartmann | interworks.com

As data breaches and cyber threads continue to rise, securing your data has become a top priority for businesses and organisations across all industries. Whether you want to safeguard sensitive customer data, protect your intellectual property or ...

Data,Governance,security,Snowflake

Multi-Filtering Buttons for Tables and Lists

Oct 28, 2024 Lindsay Betzendahl | vizzendata.com

Throughout my years working in data visualization, I have experienced an intriguing evolution. When I started using Tableau 10 yearsContinue reading

Tableau,Tutorial,Buttons,Design,HowTo,Parameteractions,TablesandLists

Z Scores

Oct 28, 2024 Joe O'Connor | www.thedataschool.co.uk

An introduction to Z scores

Understanding Descriptive Statistics Mean Median Mode and the Difference...

Oct 28, 2024 Thomas Duong | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Descriptive statistics provide essential tools to summarise and describe the main features of data. When dealing with data, it is crucial to understand key concepts like mean, median, and mode. Another important aspect is knowing when to use an av...

Trendlines

Oct 28, 2024 Eden Thiede-Palmer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Trend Lines and Linear Regressions

An introduction to normal distributions

Oct 28, 2024 Kealan Daly | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Many things in nature abide by what we call a normal, or Gaussian distribution. The general trends by which normal distributions follow involve most of a population adhering to some average, or mean, and then fewer of the population fitting into g...

A Dexter Viz Curvy Radar Template

Oct 28, 2024 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

Today, I’m honored to becollaborating on a post with the inimitable Lisa Trescott. If you don’t knowLisa, then where have you been? She’s a Tableau Visionary, Tableau Ambassador,and an IronViz Global Champion. She’s also incredibly fun. For exampl...

GuestPost,How-To,PopCulture,Tableau,Templates

Can you show total sales and filtered sales in the same view

Oct 27, 2024 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

A guest post this week from Hannah Bartholomew asked us to show a filtered and unfiltered view of data in the same viz. Building the calculations We need to show the total sales and the total sales by Sub-Category which won’t be impacted by any fi...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2024,DualAxis,Filtering,FIXEDLOD,parameter,Week43

How to Make Sensational Spider Charts in Tableau

Oct 23, 2024 Dan Bunker | playfairdata.com

Spider charts, also known as radar charts, are an engaging and perhaps underutilized chart for visual analytics. While this advanced…The post How to Make Sensational Spider Charts in Tableau appeared first on Playfair Data.

Advanced,ChartTypes,Engineering,TableauDesktop

Remove automated highlighting in Tableau

Oct 22, 2024 Maria Maske | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Have you ever wondered whether it is possible to switch off automatic highlighting in Tableau?

Intermediate,Storytelling,Strategy

Put Good In Get Good Out How to use Tableau Prep for Tableau Pulse

Oct 22, 2024 Kate Crawford | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tableau Pulse insights are enhanced by AI. But, is your data ready for Tableau AI? In this post, I’ll share tips and Tableau Prep steps for Tableau Pulse Metrics.

Intermediate,Storytelling,Strategy

Calendar View - Nice overview

Oct 22, 2024 Marcus Oberdiek | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Everyone knows the calendar view and is familiar with reading it. Birthdays, vacations and other important dates were entered by hand. With this view, it is also very easy and clear to display data. And this is how you can create a calendar view.

Intermediate,Storytelling,Strategy

Lets play with Tableau Extensions

Oct 21, 2024 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

Hot of the press with the release of 2024.3, Sean set this challenge to focus on the ability to use table extensions. As a result you will need at least v2024.3 of Tableau Desktop or Tableau Desktop Public installed. At the point of writing, this ...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2024,DashboardActions,filteractions,Scatter,Table,TableExtension,VizExtension,Week42

Choosing between Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud

Oct 19, 2024 Takhmina Pirmahmadova | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Authorized Tableau users can use Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud to share and collaborate. The difference between the two platforms may not be so obvious to new users and organizations that consider implementing Tableau. This blog provides an ove...

Intermediate,Storytelling,Strategy

Preattentive Attributes Comparison

Oct 19, 2024 Megan Spengler | playfairdata.com

Preattentive attributes are something that you most likely encounter unintentionally every day, whether you are browsing the web, navigating an…The post Preattentive Attributes Comparison appeared first on Playfair Data.

Fundamentals,Strategy,TipsTricks,UserExperience

W2 Top Tips for Tableau

Oct 18, 2024 Priya Kondola | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This week, we began introductions to Tableau desktop. This was the topic I was most excited about learning as we had previously used Tableau in our applications. However, it was extremely useful to start from scratch and learn how I could have sav...

Intermediate,Storytelling,Strategy

My journey to The Data School London as a career changer

Oct 18, 2024 Dominic Brady | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I would say that my journey to the Data School (as a career changer from teaching and performing music) was unusual, except everyone here seems to have a different background! Still, mine had its ups and downs, so I thought it was worth sharing. I...

Intermediate,Storytelling,Strategy

Handling Quarter-Over-Quarter Calculations in Tableau

Oct 18, 2024 Salome Grasland | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Check out the dashboard here.

Intermediate,Storytelling,Strategy

Big Data - Good Data

Oct 18, 2024 Marcus Oberdiek | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Why companies need to understand their data landscape

Intermediate,Storytelling,Strategy

What is Data

Oct 17, 2024 Priya Kondola | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Our first learning session at the Data school started with a seemingly simple question however became more difficult to answer as we explored the topic.

Intermediate,Storytelling,Strategy

My Journey to The Data School

Oct 17, 2024 Dan Booth | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Having just completed my first week at The Data School I thought now would be a good time to reflect on the journey of creating my initial application dashboard. 

Intermediate,Storytelling,Strategy

How to Build a Dashboard in Tableau Cloud

Oct 16, 2024 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Do you need to build a dashboard in Tableau Cloud but you don’t know where to start? We’ve got you covered!

TableauDashboards,TableauServer

PYD132 InnoTech Oklahoma with Sean Lowery and Chris Scully

Oct 16, 2024 InterWorks | interworks.com

In this episode, InterWorks Content Manager Garrett Sauls sits down with Sean Lowery, Director of Events for Prospera Events, and InterWorks IT Account Executive Chris Scully. Here, they talk about InnoTech Oklahoma, the state’s leading IT confere...

IT,InnoTech,Podcast,PodcastYourData

Reset Filter Button Tableau

Oct 15, 2024 Maria Maske | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Welcome back! As I announced in my last blog post on the topic Apply Button & Tableau I would like to explain in this post how you can create the corresponding Reset Button.

Intermediate,Storytelling,Strategy

My first week at the data school

Oct 15, 2024 Bethan Donovan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Before I started my first week at the data school, I had a lot of worries about my success in the data school, but I kept telling myself, ‘I have been selected, they wouldn’t have chosen me if I wasn’t going to be good at it’, however as we all kn...

Intermediate,Storytelling,Strategy

Apply Filter Button Tableau

Oct 14, 2024 Maria Maske | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Filtering data is an essential function in Tableau. In general, the filters are transferred directly to the dashboard and the visualisations changes as soon as something is selected in the filter.

Intermediate,Storytelling,Strategy

Select or Hover Action Why Not Both

Oct 14, 2024 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

 If you didn’t already know, Steve Wexler, Amanda Makulec, Andy Cotgreave, and Jeff Shaffer are working on another book. I was lucky enough that they chose one of my dashboards to be included. As part of this process, I was included in...

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The Parallels Between Storytelling and Data Visualization

Oct 12, 2024 Ryan Sleeper | playfairdata.com

Think of the lyrics from your favorite song – or any song for that matter. I guarantee it contains the…The post The Parallels Between Storytelling and Data Visualization appeared first on Playfair Data.

Intermediate,Storytelling,Strategy

People Resource Planning

Oct 12, 2024 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

This week’s #WOW2024 challenge was a guest post from Dan Wade using an alternative custom data set focused on staff resource planning. Creating the parameters We need 3 parameters for this challenge pMeasure string parameter containing a list of 3...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2024,DualAxis,FIRST,FIXEDLOD,GanttChart,LineChart,MeasureNames,Parameters,PREVIOUS_VALUE,TableCalculations

Exploring Row-Level Security in Tableau for Client Dashboard

Oct 11, 2024 Otaro Namakwa | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This week, we tackled an exciting client project that involved designing a dashboard for their web platform. The key requirement? The dashboard needed to include row-level security features to ensure data access was restricted based on customer ne...

Intermediate,Storytelling,Strategy

What did it take to get into DS47

Oct 10, 2024 Lorna Brown | www.thedataschool.co.uk

DS47 started this week, let’s take a look at their initial application and final visualisations that got them into this cohort.

Understanding Client Needs A Guide to Insightful Recommendations

Oct 10, 2024 Otaro Namakwa | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I embarked on a project focused on deeply understanding my client. The goal? To provide thoughtful and appropriate suggestions that would yield the best insights, tailored to their roles and decision-making processes. Here’s a detailed look at the...

Tableau Thursday Tutorial Dynamic Top N Filter

Oct 10, 2024 Brenda Chavez | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This tutorial uses Tableau’s sample dataset, Superstore. For instructions on how to access this dataset, please see this guide.

Power BI Parameter Fields

Oct 10, 2024 Maria Maske | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Power BI has many great functions. Some of them are even very similar to those of Tableau. One of these functions is the use of parameters, e.g. to dynamically swap a measure in a chart. I would like to share with you how this works in this blog p...

From Frustration to Fascination My Journey with Tableau

Oct 10, 2024 Otaro Namakwa | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When I first encountered Tableau, I was less than impressed. If someone had asked me at that moment whether I could envision myself working with this tool, I would have responded with a resounding NO. To understand this stark reaction, let me take...

A Learning Experience Lessons from a Challenging Presentation

Oct 10, 2024 Otaro Namakwa | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today proved to be an enlightening day, filled with valuable lessons that I won’t soon forget. I encountered two key insights that were particularly striking: the importance of following instructions closely and the necessity of consulting with th...

How to Create a Rounded Bar Chart in Tableau

Oct 9, 2024 Takhmina Pirmahmadova | www.thedataschool.co.uk

To give a bar chart a softer, a more modern appearance, you might consider creating a rounded bar chart. In this blog, I’ll walk you through the steps to create one.