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Can I Axis You a Question

Oct 9, 2024 Vivian Ng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Can I axis you a question? How do you make an axis dynamic? We’re moving away from the Once More Unto the HIPAA Breach dashboard (HIPAA breach reviz) now, to other topics pertaining to other dashboards. The dynamic axis in particular is for this p...

Introduction to Normalized and Denormalized Data

Oct 8, 2024 Edward Hayter | www.thedataschool.co.uk

An awareness of database structures is important contextual knowledge for data engineering. One of the key principles when thinking about database design is normalization, an approach to organizing data. This blog will introduce normalization and ...

Tableau,tableau

Extracting Words and Count Their Frequency from Sentences in Tableau Prep

Oct 8, 2024 Le Luu | www.thedataschool.co.uk

As a data analyst, I usually work on the numeric data. However, the text data can also give me some insight. Specifically, most companies that sell products, want to hear feedback and reviews from the customer. The text data from the feedback and ...

Tableau,tableau

Dashboard Week Days 4-5 DataTV

Oct 8, 2024 Alfie King | www.thedataschool.co.uk

So here it is the end of our training at the DS. Our final project was the tableau #DataplusTV. We had data from IMDb about every TV show and their ratings and actors.

Tableau,tableau

Alteryx Advanced - Analytical Applications

Oct 8, 2024 Archie Boswell | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Trying to pass your Alteryx Advanced certification or just trying to improve you knowledge? This blog provides you with downloadable revision notes, links to in depth videos and additional resources to help you understand what Analytical Applicati...

Tableau,tableau

Documentation with dbt

Oct 7, 2024 Edward Hayter | www.thedataschool.co.uk

One benefit of using dbt as the tool of choice for transforming data in your data pipelines is the in-built documentation functionality. Using .yaml /.yml (YAML Ain’t Markup Language), a syntax intended to be human readable compared to things like...

Tableau,tableau

Tableau Viz in Tooltip for Totals

Oct 7, 2024 Andrew Watson | tarsolutions.co.uk

The viz in tooltip doesn’t work for totals in Tableau. Which is annoying. Apparently, this was a deliberate decision by Tableau. But still annoying. Perhaps … Read moreSource

Tableau,tableau

How to Build a Semi-Sunburst Chart in Tableau

Oct 7, 2024 Felicia Styer | playfairdata.com

A Semi-Sunburst chart in Tableau creates a visually striking effect that catches the viewer’s attention. If you need to add…The post How to Build a Semi-Sunburst Chart in Tableau appeared first on Playfair Data.

Advanced,ChartTypes,Engineering,TableauDesktop

Tableaus Hidden Functions A Deep Dive into the Undocumented Guest Post b...

Oct 7, 2024 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

We are incredibly excitedto have Yovel Deutel join us today for a guest blog. Believe me when I tell youit’s going to blow your mind!! After accidentally wandering into the world ofTableau in 2018 and deciding to stick around, Yovel Deutel has bee...

GuestPost,How-To,Tableau

Can you create a brush filter

Oct 7, 2024 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

This week’s #WOW2024 challenge was set by Yusuke, challenging us to create a filter for the line chart, using selections from the bar chart. The main aim was to make it as easy to select months with low sales as it is to select months with higher ...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2024,BarChart,Dates,deselectmarks,DualAxis,FIXEDLOD,SetActions,Sets,Week40

How to build a dynamic control chart parameters and table calcs

Oct 5, 2024 Georgia Webb | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Control charts allow us to see when a measure if within or outside a selected range. The upper and lower bands are often a number of standard deviations above or below the mean. This can highlight marks that are abnormally high or low.

Transforming Visualizations with Parameters in Tableau

Oct 4, 2024 Takhmina Pirmahmadova | www.thedataschool.co.uk

What are parameters?

Data,models,ThoughtSpot

Physical Health and Your WorkLife Balance

Oct 4, 2024 Robby White | interworks.com

We all hear about the importance of not overworking ourselves and avoiding burnout. With that in mind, it’s worth considering ways to achieve a healthy work/life balance. First: We need to understand that our work and personal lives are not in con...

Culture,Health,Wellness

Taking time

Oct 3, 2024 Tim Jeffries | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Final project of Dashboard Week , and a project that was officially assigned for two days; sadly I wasn’t in on the second day, last Friday, so I didn’t have the 4pm deadline to finish and present. With that being my last week of training and this...

Data,models,ThoughtSpot

How to Create Dynamic Unit Charts in Tableau Desktop A Step-by-Step Guide

Oct 3, 2024 Thiago Santos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Unit charts, also known as Pictogram Charts, use icons to represent quantities of a total broken down by a dimension. While they might not be as clear as the industry-standard bar charts, they can effectively highlight specific information and add...

Data,models,ThoughtSpot

Build a Batch Macro to Translate a Text Column

Oct 3, 2024 Le Luu | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In some global projects, the user could come from many countries worldwide. Or the data owner must collect the data from everywhere in the world but the result should be in one consistent language. The language could be a barrier. In that case, th...

Data,models,ThoughtSpot

Introducing Models in ThoughtSpot

Oct 3, 2024 Darinka Markovic | interworks.com

ThoughtSpot is a next-generation BI tool that addresses a specific pain point that almost all data practitioners have encountered — by the time an analytics solution is ready for me and my team to use, the business needs have changed. Can’t we jus...

Data,models,ThoughtSpot

Beginners Guide to DAX Creating Calculated Columns and Measures in Power...

Oct 2, 2024 Juan Carlos Guzman | playfairdata.com

When building a report from scratch in Power BI Desktop, one of the most common questions you can ask yourself…The post Beginner’s Guide to DAX: Creating Calculated Columns and Measures in Power BI appeared first on Playfair Data.

AuthorExperience,Engineering,Intermediate,PowerBI

How to Set Up Data-Driven Alerts in Tableau

Oct 2, 2024 Ollie Linley | onenumber.biz

Want to learn how to set up alerts on Tableau Cloud/Server so that you can track certain metrics in the dashboards or sheets you’re following? All you need is a dashboard published to Tableau Cloud and a measure-based axis.

TableauServer

Succeeding with AI When 80 of Projects Fail

Oct 2, 2024 Mike Oldroyd | interworks.com

Corporate AI Projects are High Risk, High Return McKinsey report that the adoption of AI within businesses has surged in the last year, with 72% of companies now using AI in at least one business function (ref). There’s a problem though: Most inte...

Data,AI,LLM

InterWorks Blog Roundup September 2024

Oct 1, 2024 Mark Cordeiro | interworks.com

Spooky season, ladies and gentlemen, is finally upon us. Ghouls, ghosts and creepy crawlies lie in wait for us just around the corner. First, though, let’s take a look at last month’s blog posts. Then, we can play “Monster Mash” fifteen times in a...

News,BlogRoundup

Why I Quit X Twitter

Oct 1, 2024 Steve Wexler | www.datarevelations.com

Last week I saw a reprehensible and delusional post from Elon Musk on his social media platform, X. Shortly thereafter I read Robert Reich’s Guardian opinion piece on how Elon Musk has gained a concerning level of power over US national security. ...

GeneralDiscussions,Musk,Starlink,twitter,X

Optimizing SQL Performance - Part 2

Sep 30, 2024 Le Luu | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In the previous blog, I shared some tips to improve the performance in SQL following the order of execution. I stopped at the GROUP BY clause. If you haven’t read my first part, you can read it here.

Dual-View Trend Chart Guest Post from Kasia Gasiewska-Holc

Sep 30, 2024 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

We’re once again thrilled to have a guest blog post from ourregular contributor, KasiaGasiewska-Holc. Based in Poland, Kasia works remotely as a Senior BI Analystat Ecovadis, a data analytics company based in Warsaw. She is also a TableauPublic Am...

DataViz,GuestPost,How-To,Tableau

Exciting News 5 Free Tableau Courses Now Available on YouTube

Sep 28, 2024 Toan Hoang | tableau.toanhoang.com

Hello, fellow data enthusiasts! I’m thrilled to announce that 5 of my free courses on Tableau are now available on YouTube for you to watch and learn at your own pace. Whether you’re looking to push the boundaries of Tableau or dive deep into adva...

Novice,OnlineCourses

Dashboard Week Finale Data TV - Exploring Breaking Bads World

Sep 27, 2024 Thiago Santos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The final challenge of Dashboard Week brought a thrilling opportunity: diving into the world of TV series using IMDb data. Our task was to uncover stories about the TV shows we love, using the Data + TV’s dashboard template filled with a vast rang...

Data,dates,PowerBI,Videos

Dashboard Days 45 - DataTV

Sep 27, 2024 Becky Wright | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The Challenge

Data,dates,PowerBI,Videos

Dynamic Dates in Power BI Video Tutorial

Sep 27, 2024 Paul Vincent | interworks.com

In the video below, I go over how to implement a dynamic date axis in Power BI, giving the user the ability to show daily, monthly and yearly views of their data. This is especially useful for trends and timelines for seeing how your data…The post...

Data,dates,PowerBI,Videos

Can you use the Sankey Viz Extension

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

For this week’s challenge, Lorna set the relatively straightforward task of creating a Sankey using Tableau’s Viz Extension. The challenge may not have the complexity/nuances you might sometimes find, but at #WOW HQ, giving you the opportunity to ...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2024,Sankey,VizExtension,Week39

Stop Chart Disasters NOW With This Crucial Method

Sep 26, 2024 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

How many times have you seen a chart with so many colors that you can’t see one from the others? In this tip, I show you a simple technique for ensuring your users don’t make a mess of the charts you design. I call them spaghetti charts. ———-I’m A...

cluttered,color,count,filter,LOD,tableau,tip

What it took to get into DS46

Sep 26, 2024 Georgia Webb | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Hi there, I am halfway through training in DS46 and wanted to share my story of how I got into the data school.

Data,BookReview,ThoughtLeadership

Fast Filter with Power BI Bookmark

Sep 26, 2024 Marcus Oberdiek | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Power BI is a powerful tool for data visualization and analysis. One of the most useful features that Power BI offers is bookmarks. Bookmarks allow users to save specific views of their reports and retrieve them later. In this blog post, I will ex...

Data,BookReview,ThoughtLeadership

Dynamic Zone Visibility

Sep 26, 2024 Liz Boika | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Pre- and Post- V 2022.3

Data,BookReview,ThoughtLeadership

DS45 Dashboard Week Day 45 - Data TV

Sep 26, 2024 Jenny Martin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For the final 2 days, we’d like DS45 to take on a challenge set by Tableau themselves! Data + TV invites you to find data stories about the TV series you love, from IMDb data. When DS45 make a submission they’ll even get a free DataFam Discovery K...

The Art and Science of Product Management

Sep 26, 2024 Ben Bausili | interworks.com

In the realm of product management, two seminal works stand as contrasting pillars of wisdom: “Build” by Tony Fadell and “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. These books represent the balance of product management: the art of visionary design and long...

Data,BookReview,ThoughtLeadership

Actions in Tableau vs. Power BI

Sep 26, 2024 Kirsty Wall | interworks.com

Great dashboards engage users and encourage exploration and discovery. A great way to do this is using interactivity. Let’s look into how to achieve this with different BI tools. Interactivity in Tableau    In Tableau this can be achieved with d...

Data,Actions,PowerBI,Tableau

Game on

Sep 25, 2024 Thiago Santos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day 3 of Dashboard Week arrived, and the task at hand was diving into the #GamesNightViz community project, focusing on Street Fighter V. Like any project, it all starts with data discovery, and that’s exactly where I began.

Functions here or maybe not.

Sep 25, 2024 Tim Jeffries | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day 3, and I’ve got a collection of scatter plots, all checking for correlations between pairs of five variables. Ideally, I’ll click on a point on one of them, and it’ll highlight the relevant point in the others as well, maybe fading out the res...

Dashboard Week - Day 3 - Street Fighter V

Sep 25, 2024 Becky Wright | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For day 3 of Dashboard week we were focussing on Street Fighter V character stats and usage. We needed to use Alteryx and Power BI.

Dashboard Week Day 3 - Street Fighter

Sep 25, 2024 Alfie King | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day 3 was all about Street Fighter, but more specifically PowerBI and Alteryx Web Scraping.

DS45 Dashboard Week Day 3 - Street Fighter V Characters

Sep 25, 2024 Jenny Martin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today DS45 will be taking inspiration from Community Project #GamesNightViz. They’ll be focusing on Street Fighter V character stats and usage. This may be an unfamiliar subject for some, so doing research is encouraged!