How to Simultaneously Highlight Deselect with a Parameter Action in Tab...

Jun 20, 2024 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

In this video, we’ll dive into an advanced technique to enhance your Tableau visualizations: simultaneously highlighting and deselecting marks using parameter actions. This is a great skill for making your dashboards more interactive and user-frie...

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Building Data Models

Jun 20, 2024 Becky Wright | www.thedataschool.co.uk

It’s week 3! From Monday to Wednesday, we worked through calculations and functions, Intro to Power BI and Data Models & Data Source Connections. 

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So which do you prefer

Jun 19, 2024 Tim Jeffries | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This past week we’ve moved on from just using Tableau and Tableau Prep, and started using Alteryx and Power BI as well for our Calculations & Functions and Data Models sessions. Naturally, then, I’ve been asking around a bit to see if people h...

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Reflective Log from Week 2 Friday Project

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

When I first started this project it was quite daunting. But, by the end of the project I realise that this project was not as hard as I first thought, and now that I am done with it I feel like I spent a lot of time doing non-essential items. Suc...

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Tableau Prep Join Types Explained All 7

Jun 19, 2024 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

One of the primary ways we combine multiple tables of data in Tableau Prep is with joins! Joins allow us to merge multiple tables of data horizontally on a common key.

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Snowflake Security and Cost Management Health Checks

Jun 19, 2024 Chris Hastie | interworks.com

As many are already aware, there has recently been a lot of noise about security on the Snowflake platform. On June 2nd, 2024, Snowflake issued this statement regarding a targeted threat campaign against some Snowflake customer accounts. This appe...

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Getting Ready For The Tableau Certified Data Analyst

Jun 18, 2024 Bruno Gasparotto Ponne | www.thedataschool.co.uk

As part of our training at The Data School we must pass the Tableau Data Analyst certification. In order to increase my chances of passing, I am getting ready and trying to review as much content as I can.

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What Is ThoughtSpots SpotIQ

Jun 18, 2024 Kirsty Wall | interworks.com

Do you think there might be insights hidden in your data that are waiting to be uncovered, but you’ve just not found them yet? Yes? Well, ThoughtSpot can help uncover those insights using their SpotIQ feature. Sometimes when looking at data, wheth...

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Snowflake External Access Trigger Tableau Datasource Refreshes

Jun 18, 2024 Chris Hastie | interworks.com

Recently, Snowflake released external access integrations into general availability. This allows Snowflake admins to create secure tunnels for Snowflake to communicate with the outside world, and can therefore communicate with external APIs to com...

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How to Improve Security with Snowflakes Trust Center

Jun 18, 2024 Chris Hastie | interworks.com

As many are already aware, recently there has been a lot of noise about security on the Snowflake platform. On June 2, 2024 Snowflake issued this statement regarding a targeted threat campaign against some Snowflake customer accounts. This appeare...

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De-Mystifying the Data Catalog Find and Use Your Data

Jun 18, 2024 Jim Horbury | interworks.com

At InterWorks, we put an enormous amount of effort into translating complex technical concepts to make them easily understandable — and actionable — for the organisations we work with. It’s extraordinarily difficult to decide about a tool or vendo...

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Tableau Parameter

Jun 17, 2024 Rui Pedro Fernandes Ramos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

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Male wie ein Data Analyst

Jun 17, 2024 Rui Pedro Fernandes Ramos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Datenvisualisierung spielt eine entscheidende Rolle in der Datenanalyse. Sie hilft, komplexe Datenmengen verständlich und interpretierbar zu machen. Verschiedene Arten von Visualisierungen eignen sich für unterschiedliche Arten von Daten und Analy...

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Dynamic Zone Visibility Without Calculated Fields

Jun 17, 2024 Cecily Santiago | www.thedataschool.co.uk

There is a known issue in some versions of Tableau where when using calculated fields from an extract with dynamic zone visibility or dynamic axis titles, refresh extracts fail. If you come across that bug, you might want to use dynamic zone visib...

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Fundamentals of Accessibility Design Making Your Dashboards a Friendlier...

Jun 17, 2024 Rafael Simancas | playfairdata.com

“What are your accessibility design standards?” It’s a question that can catch us off guard during project discussions. But when…The post Fundamentals of Accessibility Design: Making Your Dashboards a Friendlier Place appeared first on Playfair Data.

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How To Be A Confident Newcomer

Jun 16, 2024 Yan Peng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Navigating a career change can be daunting, especially when starting something new feels uncomfortable, and you fear failure. A year ago, I decided to change my career, and my life has transformed in many ways thanks to that decision and my dedica...

Fire Prevention Heatmapping Fire Risk Groups

Jun 16, 2024 Aileen Pfleiderer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

or how to analyse ‘at risk’ groups through data analysis. In the second internal client project, I was responsible for the following question: fire and rescue services need to demonstrate that they have carried out an analysis to identify the demo...

Reflecting on the Importance of SOPs Lessons from My Academic Journey

Jun 15, 2024 Aileen Pfleiderer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

or “How To Organize A One Week Client Project As Project Manager SOP”. It is now week 11 and two weeks ago I already had the opportunity to slip into the role of project manager. For my reflection log, I started to summarise my experiences during ...

Chart Swapping Without DZV in Tableau

Jun 14, 2024 Cecily Santiago | www.thedataschool.co.uk

There is a known issue in some versions of Tableau where when using calculated fields from an extract with dynamic zone visibility or dynamic axis titles, refresh extracts fail. If you come across that bug, you might want to swap charts without us...

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Can you visualise headcount distribution in multiple ways on a single sh...

Jun 14, 2024 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

This week’s challenge focuses on allowing the user flexibility in both how they want to ‘slice’ the measure being reported (actual headcount), and how they want the results displayed to meet the needs of the question they are trying to answer. Whi...

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Alteryx Auto Insights Usage Requirements Reflections

Jun 12, 2024 Cecily Santiago | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A couple months ago, I attended an Alteryx Cloud Training provided by Alteryx to Data School consultants, which covered several of their cloud products including the exciting Alteryx Auto Insights. The information I’m sharing here is based on that...

Its gonna get so much harder...

Jun 11, 2024 Tim Jeffries | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A quick reflection on the first week of training, two days into the second.

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Data School Blog Roundup - May 2024

Jun 11, 2024 Mel Niere | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Compiled by Rusha Limba, Intern

Snowflake External Access Send Alerts to Teams

Jun 11, 2024 Chris Hastie | interworks.com

Recently, Snowflake released external access integrations into general availability. This allows Snowflake admins to create secure tunnels for Snowflake to communicate with the outside world, and can therefore communicate with external APIs to com...

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Overcoming Adversity

Jun 10, 2024 Dillon Thomas | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Adversity is Normal:

How to Enable Tableau Pulse and Ensure a Successful Launch

Jun 10, 2024 Ethan Lang | playfairdata.com

Tableau Pulse has created a lot of buzz within the Tableau community. Tableau developers around the world are celebrating because…The post How to Enable Tableau Pulse and Ensure a Successful Launch appeared first on Playfair Data.

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400th Blog A Brief History of the Flerlage Twins

Jun 10, 2024 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

 This is our 400th blogpost on the Flerlage Twins website and we thought we’d celebrate by sharing abrief history of the website and our most popular and favorite posts. Ken’s HistoryI started using Tableau back in Aprilof 2016. I had worked in an...

The Profit Ratio Problem

Jun 8, 2024 Yan Peng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this post, I will address a type of KPI that requires caution when it comes to aggregation. I call it the “profit ratio” problem. In the context of the standard Superstore data set, the sum is normally calculated for KPIs like sales and profit ...

Ein Anwendungsfall fr die Kombination vom Satz und LOD-Ausdrcken in Tabl...

Jun 8, 2024 Yan Peng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In Tableau kann man Sätze verwenden, um eine Teilmenge von Daten unter einer bestimmten Bedingung zu erstellen. Man umgeht dabei nicht nur komplexe Berechnungen, sondern der erstellte Satz gestaltet sich auch dynamisch. Beispielsweise möchte man i...

Power BI Service vs. Power BI Desktop

Jun 7, 2024 Juan Carlos Guzman | playfairdata.com

What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the words, “Power BI”? Is it Power BI Desktop or…The post Power BI Service vs. Power BI Desktop appeared first on Playfair Data.

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IT Sales Simplified Where To Start

Jun 7, 2024 InterWorks | interworks.com

Starting off this limited run mini-series in the Podcast Your Data lineup, Content Manager Garrett Sauls and Sales Intern Genna Callahan sit down to talk through Genna’s experience starting her journey into IT Sales and how others can follow her p...

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Can you manually overwrite a value in a table

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

For this week’s challenge, Erica wanted us to be able to set a discount value for a Sub-Category which once set, overwrote the value displayed in the table and applied the discount to the other visuals. She added an additional complexity to displa...

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Top 5 dashboard design tools

Jun 6, 2024 Eugenia Losada Gamst | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Its great to have a useful dashboard but its even better to have a useful and cool looking dashboard, so I will be sharing the top 5 tools I use to either remove some of the decision fatigue from dashboard designing or that I use to elevate design...

How to Avoid Scroll Bar in Tableau

Jun 6, 2024 Sayd Abdul Tawab Hussainy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

To improve the user experience in Tableau by avoiding a scroll bar, you can implement a solution where users can select the number of bars to display, and the rest are grouped into an “Others” category. Here’s a step-by-step guide to achieve this:

Data is a piece of cake

Jun 6, 2024 Thiago Santos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

On the first day at The Data School London, the team was asked: What is data? The formal answer is: “According to The Oxford Learner’s Dictionary (2021), data are facts or information, especially when examined and used to find out things or to mak...

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To The Point Make a Custom Parameter Select with a Search Bar in Tableau...

Jun 5, 2024 Jeffrey Brian Thompson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Here is a link to a dashboard which uses this technique.

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How to Create a Monthly Timesheet in Tableau

Jun 5, 2024 Sayd Abdul Tawab Hussainy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Objective:

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How to Publish a Tableau Dashboard

Jun 5, 2024 Ollie Linley | onenumber.biz

Publishing a Tableau dashboard is crucial part of the dashboard-building process. This is often a step that comes with a sense of accomplishment as we begin sharing our work with others.

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Find Red Flags in Your Data in ONLY 5 MINUTES with Control Charts

Jun 4, 2024 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

If you like this video, you’ll love learning from me 4 hours per week in Next-Level Tableau. Join here.Control charts are one of the best charts you can use for identifying outliers in a series of measurement. So what are they?Control charts are u...

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What is data

Jun 4, 2024 Tim Jeffries | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A question that seems like it should be easy to answer, but isn’t necessarily, is just what is data? ‘Numbers’ may be the first thing that leaps to mind, and that’s often true, but there’s plenty out there that isn’t, as there are a lot of other t...

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To The Point Jitter Box Plots in Tableau Desktop

Jun 4, 2024 Jeffrey Brian Thompson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Jitter plots are useful to visualise lots of points in one chart. A jitter box plot, however, can be tough to align properly.

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Sometimes toddlers do know best.

Jun 4, 2024 Alfie King | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When learning about how to be a consultant on our second day at the Data school, we learned that sometimes toddlers do know best when it comes to getting the real answer to a question. Toddlers are also at the forefront of understanding the relati...

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MoM Comparison in Tableau with Parameters

Jun 4, 2024 Sayd Abdul Tawab Hussainy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Step 1: Create a duplicate of your date field. To prepare it for parameters, extract the exact month and year using the following syntax:

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How to Create Reasonable Mock Data in Alteryx

Jun 4, 2024 Jeffrey Brian Thompson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

It is useful to be able to create mock data. I wanted to create mock data so that I can share techniques that I learnt during client work, without using their data. The mock data will be for 2000m rowing.

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DS45 - The beginning of my TIL journey and reflecting on Day 2

Jun 4, 2024 Becky Wright | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Following a busy day of introductions and setting up on our first day, it was time to start our first day of training.

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