How to Create a Stream Graph in Tableau

Jul 24, 2024 Sayd Abdul Tawab Hussainy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Stream graphs are an excellent way to visualize the flow of data over time, allowing you to see trends and patterns within categories. A classic example of a stream graph is an energy consumption stream chart, which shows how different sources con...

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Dashboard Week Day Two

Jul 24, 2024 Kate Crawford | www.thedataschool.co.uk

On the second day of Dashboard week, we were provided the opportunity to create an informative dashboard using UNICEF data.

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Dashboard Week - Day 3 -

Jul 24, 2024 Aileen Pfleiderer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Crafting My CV Dashboard: My Guide of Personal and Professional Visualization

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Dashboard Week Day 2 - UNICEF

Jul 24, 2024 Brenda Chavez | www.thedataschool.co.uk

It’s day two of Dashboard Week at the Data School New York! In case you aren’t familiar, Dashboard Week takes place during our final week of training here at Data School. During this week Data Schoolers are tasked with creating and presenting a da...

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Dashboard Week Day 2

Jul 24, 2024 Dillon Thomas | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today we were given a task to go to the UNICEF site and find a dataset that interested us and to build a beautiful and informative dashboard on the data. For this project I chose to do a dashboard on the urbanization of specifically Africa. There ...

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Dashboard Week Day 1 - Golf Courses in Portugal

Jul 24, 2024 Brenda Chavez | www.thedataschool.co.uk

It’s day one of Dashboard Week at the Data School New York! In case you aren’t familiar, Dashboard Week takes place during our final week of training here at Data School. During this week Data Schoolers are tasked with creating and presenting a da...

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Dashboard Week 3 - A great Approach to Personal Branding

Jul 24, 2024 Leonardo Ceballos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today, I embarked on an exciting project: creating my CV as a dashboard. It was a fun and personal endeavor, quite different from the usual “corporate” CVs.

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Dynamic Start and End Date Filter in Tableau

Jul 24, 2024 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

One of my favorite and most-often used date filters in Tableau is a range of dates with dynamic start and end dates.

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Maturing Analytics User Adoption and Data Delivery

Jul 24, 2024 Ben Bausili | interworks.com

Welcome back to our journey in maturing analytics. In Part 1, we looked at our job to be done and why it wasn’t building dashboards. In Part 2, we dove into the details of how dashboards can be a mismatch to users’ needs. Now, we’ll…The post Matur...

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Templates Day Two Of Dashboard Week

Jul 23, 2024 Bruno Gasparotto Ponne | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Our second task of dashboard week was to build two templates: one for a Tableau dashboard and the other for Power BI. The idea behind this challenge is that, as data analysts, we should be able to create flexible and clean templates that save us t...

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Steal Like An Artist

Jul 23, 2024 Yan Peng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today marked the second day of Dashboard Week, a challenging and exhilarating experience. Our task was to create two business dashboard templates using Tableau and Power BI. We worked with a mock HR dataset and the well-known Superstore dataset. T...

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How to add some spice to the dashboard

Jul 23, 2024 Sayd Abdul Tawab Hussainy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

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Geistige Blockaden lsen

Jul 23, 2024 Dominik Wieser | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Heute endet Tag 2 der Dashboard Week, und es lief nicht so glatt wie ich es gewohnt bin.

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Demographic Analysis in Alteryx

Jul 23, 2024 Le Luu | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In Alteryx, users usually use the Spatial tools in the Spatial palette to work on the data related to the Spatial data. I wrote 2 blogs to share how to apply the Spatial tools in Alteryx to solve the problem (Part 1, Part 2). Besides the Spatial t...

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Dashboard Week Day One

Jul 23, 2024 Kate Crawford | www.thedataschool.co.uk

On the first day of Dashboard week, we were given data bout Golf Courses in Portugal. I’ve only ever played golf at Top Golf. So, my knowledge about the data’s topic is minimal. I decided to dive into the data and found that there were quite a few...

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Dashboard Week - Day 2 -

Jul 23, 2024 Aileen Pfleiderer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Colourful Grey: Why Custom Templates and Personal Branding Are the True Colors of Tableau and Power BI

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Dashboard Week Day 1

Jul 23, 2024 Dillon Thomas | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today we were given a dataset that was completely in Portuguese. The dataset was on golf courses in portugal. It contained various different fields pertaining to indivdual golf courses such as the name of the course, where it is located, who was t...

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Dashboard Week - 2. Dashboard

Jul 23, 2024 Leonardo Ceballos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today tasks was some kind of a “Template Challenge”. The idea was to build some resources for future work, as having a collection of templates under the sleeve can be useful when working on tight deadlines, require inspiration or when asked to sho...

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Introduction to Snowflake File Formats

Jul 23, 2024 Steve Taylor | interworks.com

File formats are database objects used by snowflake to ingest flat files. Consider file formats as your way of giving snowflake information about the file so it knows how to ingest those flat files in an optimal fashion. You specify the type of fi...

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How do you explain what data visualization is

Jul 23, 2024 Steve Wexler | www.datarevelations.com

How do you explain what data visualization is and how helpful it can be? Join the discussion here. Background I recently had to address some serious health issues that required a lengthy hospital stay followed by a long in-patient rehab. I won’t g...

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How to build a dashboard from a big dataset in a few hours

Jul 22, 2024 Sayd Abdul Tawab Hussainy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

One of the toughest tasks during the 4-month data school training is Dashboard Week. You are supposed to build a dashboard in 5 to 6 hours and then present it to all attendees. But the question is, how do you find your niche from a big dataset in ...

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How I Created an Informative Dashboard in Just 5 Hours

Jul 22, 2024 Yan Peng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today was the first day of our dashboard week. We got a dataset we’ve never seen before in the morning and were asked to choose a story, make a sketch, and build a dashboard in Tableau within five and half hours.

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Horror vs Thriller Day One Of Dashboard Week

Jul 22, 2024 Bruno Gasparotto Ponne | www.thedataschool.co.uk

As we approach the end of our training at The Data School in Hamburg, we still have one mission: to overcome the dashboard week. This is a week when cohorts develop one dashboard per day, from 9 am to 3.30 pm. We are provided with a dataset and so...

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Dashboard Week - In a Galaxy far far away

Jul 22, 2024 Dominik Wieser | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today marked the end of our training phase with day 1 of Dashboard Week.

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Dashboard Week - Day 1 -

Jul 22, 2024 Aileen Pfleiderer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Dashboard Duel: Will Smith vs. Kevin James – A Figma Design Journey

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Dashboard Week - 1. Dashboard

Jul 22, 2024 Leonardo Ceballos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

As a tribute to Johnny Depp’s remarkable film career, I created a Tableau dashboard that digs into the various aspects of his movies. This project aims to provide insights into his filmography, highlight key statistics, and explore trends over tim...

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Calculations in SQL and Tableau - Part 1

Jul 22, 2024 Le Luu | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I wrote a blog about comparing the calculations between Power BI and Tableau. In 2 blogs, I shared how to write DAX in Power BI and compare it with the calculations in Tableau through some use cases (Part 1, Part 2). In this blog, I will share som...

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Are You Choosing the Right Chart

Jul 22, 2024 Dillon Thomas | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When figuring out which charts to use on a Tableau viz there’s definitely different ways to achieve the same goal, but there is also a right vs wrong we have learned. You can make the viz look beautiful, but every chart has a time and a place. For...

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Exploring Random Number Generation in Alteryx Techniques and Applications

Jul 22, 2024 Sophia Kohn | playfairdata.com

Random Number Generation (RNG) as the name suggests, is a useful tool that generates a random number, and can provide…The post Exploring Random Number Generation in Alteryx: Techniques and Applications appeared first on Playfair Data.

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Collaborative Communication Tips for Visual Analytics Architects Designers

Jul 22, 2024 Conor Caldwell | playfairdata.com

Working in team settings can be challenging. Coordinating schedules, balancing multiple opinions, and ensuring clear communication are already demanding. Managing…The post Collaborative Communication Tips for Visual Analytics Architects (Designers...

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A Guide to Power BI Desktop for Tableau Developers

Jul 22, 2024 Wesley Cannatti | interworks.com

You may have the job title of data analyst, or you may work in HR or sales. Regardless, the versatility of modern data visualization tools allows everyone access to self-serve analytics. If you already have Tableau experience but are interested in...

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Ten Tips Techniques Round 8

Jul 22, 2024 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

      Alright, I am back with 10 more Tableau Tips and Techniques. Be sure to check out the entire series on our website. Many of our tips in this blog post will focus on speed…just some quicker ways of doing things in Tableau.1. Quick...

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Normalizing Values in PBI

Jul 19, 2024 Alfie King | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When working on a project, I had the Idea that a Radar Chart would be extremely beneficial to the story I wanted to tell. To create a radar chart with all of the points representing different categories all with different scales, I had to normaliz...

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Tips from Assist Tableau Map Layers Disappearing

Jul 19, 2024 Lindsey Ison | interworks.com

Customer Question: “When I’m using filters on my map visualization, if the filter returns null values for any state, that state disappears from the map. How can I make a map that will show state outlines even when there’s no data?” There are, as w...

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Creating a Data Governance Framework That Drives User Adoption

Jul 19, 2024 Dan Murray | interworks.com

In this six-part series, we’ve discussed the adoption history, planning a BI Rollout, decentralizing ownership of data workflows and operational definitions of key terms like data governance, data lineage and data provenance. We discussed change m...

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Formatting Intermediate Tableau Charts

Jul 19, 2024 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

Erica set this challenge primarily aimed at building a beautifully presented dashboard, with the requirement to consider the use of layout containers and padding. She threw in creating some very specific chart types too. The easiest way to blog th...

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Harnessing Power BI Buttons for Interactive Insights

Jul 18, 2024 Troy Schuh | interworks.com

In the following example, users can switch between a line chart displaying Sales by Month and a bar chart for Sales by Region by clicking a button:  This interactive feature was developed in Power BI. The same functionality can be accomplished in ...

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Business Intelligence System Maintenance

Jul 18, 2024 Dan Murray | interworks.com

An issue and an opportunity for nearly every existing business intelligence system is keeping it running well and minimizing costs.   Cloud-based software makes it easy to spin up a data warehouse or a data lake, use data transformation tools, cre...

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Change Management for Improved Profits

Jul 17, 2024 Dan Murray | interworks.com

Business intelligence software which includes databases, data transformation tools and software for searching and presenting interactive reports, as dashboards have been around for 25 years. In the last ten years, these tools have become easier to...

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What is Data Governance

Jul 16, 2024 Dan Murray | interworks.com

Often, discussions about data governance begin and end with security. Preventing unauthorized access or the loss of proprietary data is crucial. Data governance also ensures that your data systems comply with regulatory requirements and protect pr...

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An Introduction to Snowflakes Marketplace

Jul 16, 2024 Sripriya Vemula | interworks.com

This article intends to provide a brief overview of what all the talk about Snowflake Native Apps Marketplace is about, how organizations can utilize the space to monetize their offerings, and how consumers can benefit from these third-party off-t...

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Using the Tableau Output Tool and Resolving Common Errors

Jul 15, 2024 Luke Bennett | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Whether you’re trying to get familiar with the Tableau Output tool or trying to troubleshoot an error that’s come up, this blog provides an overview of the tool’s settings and recommendations for resolving errors. The first section goes over the t...

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How to create a Plum Pudding Chart in Tableau

Jul 15, 2024 Lorraine Ferrusi | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A plum pudding is a traditional British dessert usually served on Christmas dinner. It’s a dome shaped cake-like sweet desert with fruit pieces on the inside. In the early 1900 the plum pudding made its way into science when it was proposed as a m...

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Bayesian Statistics The Fun Way - Book Review

Jul 15, 2024 Bruno Gasparotto Ponne | www.thedataschool.co.uk

With the new acquisitions for the library at The Data School in Hamburg, I was lucky to be able to choose one of the new books. For a long time, I have heard about the term “Bayesian statistics” but never fully understood what it means and how we ...

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Planning a Business Intelligence System

Jul 15, 2024 Dan Murray | interworks.com

Selecting business intelligence software and planning a rollout is a significant undertaking. The real work should begin well before you start selecting software. You must comprehensively assess your entire organization’s information needs, wants ...

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