Zwischen den Jahren Jahresvergleiche in Tableau

May 21, 2024 Dominik Wieser | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In der DSDE 7 hatten wir letzte Woche unser zweites internes Kundenprojekt. Dieses war um einiges anspruchsvoller als das erste, aber auch um einiges lehrreicher.

The Tableau Cloud Migration Checklist

May 21, 2024 Sarah Dorfman | interworks.com

If you’ve landed here, chances are you’re a BI director, Tableau Server administrator, site administrator or developer who’s interested in or planning to migrate from Tableau Server to Tableau Cloud. You’re keen to take advantage of Tableau Cloud’...

Data,Tableau,TableauBridge,TableauCloud,TableauServer

Snowflake External Access Trigger Matillion DPC Pipelines

May 21, 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 comp...

Data,Matillion,MatillionDPC.datapipelines,python,Snowflake

Highlights From the Spring 2024 dbt Cloud Launch Showcase

May 21, 2024 Rachel Kurtz | interworks.com

dbt presented their “dbt Cloud Launch Showcase” last week. In it, the team rolled out a buffet of new features and upgrades designed to make data transformation smoother than ever. Whether you’re knee-deep in SQL or just trying to keep your data d...

Data,AI,cloud,dbt,dbtcloudlaunchshowcase

What Is Drill Down And Why It Is Important to Your Client

May 20, 2024 Bruno Gasparotto Ponne | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Definition

To The Point Understand the CALCULATE DAX Function in terms of Aggregati...

May 20, 2024 Jeffrey Brian Thompson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The CALCULATE function allows you to compute by groups, with options to filter within the function.

To The Point Model View Relationships with Multiple Join Conditions in P...

May 20, 2024 Jeffrey Brian Thompson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Power BI’s model view relationships can be viewed in terms of joins:

To The Point How to Copy and Paste Applied Steps in Power Query

May 20, 2024 Jeffrey Brian Thompson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

How to Read the Advanced Editor

Force That Text to Wrap in Tableau

May 20, 2024 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

 When you’ve used Tableau for longenough, you will inevitably run into a situation where you want some textelement to wrap but, whatever you do, you can’t get it to wrap. Let’s say, forexample, you’ve created a bar chart showing Sales by Product a...

How-To,Python,SQL,Tableau,TableauPrep

Welches Ich bin ich Kind Erwachsener oder doch Eltern-Ich

May 19, 2024 Dominik Wieser | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Heute hatten wir in der DSDE 7 einen Kommunikations-Workshop. Zuerst dachte ich, dass es ein Workshop über Rhetorik werden würde, damit wir unsere Präsentationsfähigkeiten verbessern können. Tatsächlich ging es dann nicht um die Kommunikation mit ...

DataPrep,Fundamentals,TableauPrep,TechnicalFeatures

How to Remove Duplicates in Tableau Prep

May 19, 2024 Felicia Styer | playfairdata.com

One of the most common data cleaning issues after joining or unioning data is duplicate rows. Without deduplicating rows, you…The post How to Remove Duplicates in Tableau Prep appeared first on Playfair Data.

DataPrep,Fundamentals,TableauPrep,TechnicalFeatures

Project Time

May 17, 2024 Sayd Abdul Tawab Hussainy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

One of the most challenging tasks in the data school learning process is managing a data project efficiently. This week, I was tasked with managing an internal project within a week, and my top five important aspects and my learning process are as...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2024,BarChart,ColourPalettes,GradientColour,week20

Can you combine categorical sequential colours in the same chart

May 17, 2024 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

For this week’s challenge, Kyle aimed to solve a problem that he discussed with a #TC24 attendee while waiting in line for a session. How to show solid (categorical) and graduating (sequential) colours within the same chart. For this we’re going t...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2024,BarChart,ColourPalettes,GradientColour,week20

Thoughts on Tableau Conference 2024

May 16, 2024 Dan Murray | interworks.com

I’ve attended every Tableau Conference since the first one in 2008, held at the Edgewood Hotel in Seattle. That conference included 150 people, 50 of whom were Tableau employees. At its peak, the Tableau Conference attracted over 20,000 people. It...

Data,DataGovernance,Events,Salesforce,Tableau,TableauConference,TC24

MakeoverMonday 2024 Week 20 - Exporting Freedom One Bullet at a Time

May 15, 2024 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

I struggled mightily with this week’s #MakeoverMonday. My goals was to replicate the original visualization by Bloomberg.I knew I need to create path to connect the US at the center to each country.I wanted to make the US the center of the of the ...

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The secret behind this river timeline I created for tableau public easy ...

May 14, 2024 Eugenia Losada Gamst | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I came across this really interesting dataset on the life expectancy of captive animals and decided I wanted to make a dashboard out of it. I started by looking at the data and designing how I wanted the final product to look, and as I was sketchi...

Data,Dashboarding,datavisualization,design,Tableau,ThoughtSpot

How to Highlight Series in a Line Chart in Power BI

May 14, 2024 Yan Peng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this article, I will demonstrate a quick workaround for highlighting series in a line chart in Power BI. This is a common limitation in the Microsoft tool. When we try to use a bar chart to highlight the same “Category” in a line chart, as show...

DataPrep,Fundamentals,TableauPrep,TechnicalFeatures

Die Macht der Vorhersage Wie Predictive Analytics die Welt der Geschftsa...

May 14, 2024 Rui Pedro Fernandes Ramos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In der heutigen datengetriebenen Welt ist es nicht mehr ausreichend, sich auf Vergangenheitsdaten zu stützen, um fundierte Geschäftsentscheidungen zu treffen. Unternehmen müssen einen Schritt weiter gehen und Vorhersagemodelle nutzen, um zukünftig...

Data,Dashboarding,datavisualization,design,Tableau,ThoughtSpot

Calculating Engagement Rate

May 14, 2024 Aileen Pfleiderer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The importance of the engagement rate: an interesting indicator for companies

Data,Dashboarding,datavisualization,design,Tableau,ThoughtSpot

User-Focused Data Analytics Design A Three-Phase Approach

May 14, 2024 David Duncan | interworks.com

In today’s visual analytics landscape, it’s more important than ever that we are building tools (dashboards, apps, websites) that prioritize effective insights. Too often, we see clients that have all sorts of data collected, loads of dashboards, ...

Data,Dashboarding,datavisualization,design,Tableau,ThoughtSpot

Matillion DPC How to Git Going

May 14, 2024 Gavin Holzworth | interworks.com

In this blog, I will guide you through various methods to navigate the Matillion Data Productivity Cloud (DPC) GIT procedures. Within any DPC project, two crucial “branches” exist. These branches essentially represent different versions of the pro...

Data,Git,Matillion

The superpowers of Pre-Attentive Features

May 13, 2024 Leonardo Ceballos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Data visualisation can be certainly seen as a mix of art and science. It blends elements of creativity and analytical precision. One then could say that the study of data visualisation is about how quickly and effectively information can be visual...

Generating Dates with the Multi-Row Formula Tool

May 13, 2024 Salome Grasland | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The Multi-Row Formula Tool

Die Macht der Berechnungen Erstellung von Calculated Fields in Tableau

May 13, 2024 Rui Pedro Fernandes Ramos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tableau, eine der führenden Datenvisualisierungsplattformen, bietet eine Vielzahl von Funktionen, um Daten auf eine ansprechende und aussagekräftige Weise darzustellen. Eine dieser leistungsstarken Funktionen sind die “Calculated Fields” (berechne...

Catalyzing Business Insights Leveraging Alteryx Clouds Machine Learning

May 13, 2024 Calvin Gao | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Recently, I attended an Alteryx Cloud Training where Alteryx Trainers demonstrated the Machine Learning Product. Here is everything I learned:

Use a Table Calc to Calculate the Slope of a Trendline

May 13, 2024 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

     I was recently building a dashboard for a client and one data set was particularly challenging. The data looked at rates from 0 to 100% (exactly what it was measuring isn’t important). Each row in the data showed a rate for a give...

Tableau

Simple Fonts Mastering Font Essentials in Figma

May 11, 2024 Alyssa Huff | playfairdata.com

Choosing the right font or combination of fonts can significantly influence the overall style and perception of your dashboards. The…The post Simple Fonts: Mastering Font Essentials in Figma appeared first on Playfair Data.

Design,Figma,Intermediate,TipsTricks

Can you expand this segmented bar chart

May 10, 2024 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

For this week’s challenge I expanded on my challenge from week 13. So for this solution guide, I’ll be starting with the workbook I built for week 13 and adjusting as required. You can either build on your own solution if you took part, start with...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2024,DynamicAxisRange,INDEX,LayoutContainers,TableCalculations,Week19

InterWorks Blog Roundup April 2024

May 9, 2024 Mark Cordeiro | interworks.com

If you’re reading this, you (probably) survived Tableau Conference 2024. Congratulations! We had a great time at TC24, and we were incredibly happy to get to share the showroom floor with you all. Thanks to everyone who came up and chatted with us...

Data,BlogRoundup

Is Your Data Lifting You Up or Letting You Down

May 9, 2024 Elliott Stam | medium.com

Understanding and avoiding negative returns on dataContinue reading on TDS Archive »

data-strategy,analytics,notes-from-industry,engineering-mangement,product-management

Tableau Dashboard Filter Actions Explained

May 8, 2024 Ollie Linley | onenumber.biz

Tableau’s Dashboard Actions are powerful tools that we can use to add significantly increased levels of interactivity to our dashboards. Interactive dashboards are part of what makes Tableau such an engaging product for our data analysis.

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An Introduction to Parameters in Power BI

May 7, 2024 Juan Carlos Guzman | playfairdata.com

Parameters are user-generated values that define how a system can operate. We can use parameters in Power BI to grant…The post An Introduction to Parameters in Power BI appeared first on Playfair Data.

Engineering,Intermediate,PowerBI,TechnicalFeatures

3 Innovative Ways to Use Tableau Scaffolding

May 7, 2024 Megan Spengler | playfairdata.com

If you have been working with Tableau for any length of time, you have probably come across tutorials utilizing the…The post 3 Innovative Ways to Use Tableau Scaffolding appeared first on Playfair Data.

Advanced,Engineering,TableauDesktop,TipsTricks

Snowflake Network Rules Restrict Access to Specific Private Endpoints

May 7, 2024 Chris Hastie | interworks.com

In previous articles, we have discussed how to set up private connectivity with Snowflake for both Azure and AWS: Configure Azure Private Link Connectivity with Snowflake Configure AWS PrivateLink with Snowflake On its own, private connectivity is...

Data,Azure,endpoints,Governance,networks,security,Snowflake

Wort Analyse in Power BI

May 6, 2024 Rui Pedro Fernandes Ramos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Aufgabe

Was sind LODs und Ihre Vorteile

May 6, 2024 Dominik Wieser | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Letzte Woche sind zum ersten mal in Berührung mit Fixed LOD gekommen und hier wollte ich niederschreiben was Sie sind, welche Funktionen dazu gehören und welche Vorteile Sie bieten.

Understanding Fixed LODs 1

May 6, 2024 Aileen Pfleiderer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Part 1: “Order of Operations”

The Three Level Of Details In Tableau

May 6, 2024 Bruno Gasparotto Ponne | www.thedataschool.co.uk

As a Tableau Consultant, perhaps one of the most important concepts to grasp is the notion of level of detail (LOD). In this post, I will explain what LOD is and what are the three level of details that allow powerful analyses in Tableau.

Storytelling with Tableau Storyboard

May 6, 2024 Yan Peng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Storyboard in Tableau is a powerful tool for storytelling. In the blog post, I’m going to guide you through a personal story of mine based on my Spotify streaming history (storyboard available here). Some of story types I used are explained in thi...

How to add a fixed reference line in Tableau

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

What’s the scenario:

First contact - when Tableau meets Power BI

May 6, 2024 Aileen Pfleiderer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

“In 90 Minutes to Power BI: Racing Against the Clock to Replicate a Tableau Dashboard”

Erweiterung der Funktionalitt mit Parametern

May 6, 2024 Dominik Wieser | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Heute will ich anhand eines Butterfly charts zeigen wie man mit Parametern die Funktionalität noch erweitern kann. Wenn man Parameter benutzt kann man in diesem Fall mehr als nur zwei Kennzahlen miteinander vergleichen, mit dieser nützlichen Funkt...

Erfolgreiches Projektmanagement Die Kunst der Planung

May 6, 2024 Rui Pedro Fernandes Ramos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Projektmanagement ist wie das Jonglieren mit einer Vielzahl von Aufgaben, Ressourcen und Zielen. Doch wie können wir sicherstellen, dass wir nicht nur alle Bälle in der Luft halten, sondern sie auch gezielt in die richtige Richtung werfen? Die Ant...

Embrace Every Tool A Lesson from Power BI

May 6, 2024 Leonardo Ceballos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When I first encountered Power BI during a training session, my initial reaction was far from enthusiastic. “I hate Power BI,” I thought, comparing it to Tableau, a tool I am more familiar with. I found myself frustrated, struggling to recreate a ...

Creating a Global Reset Button in Tableau

May 6, 2024 Salome Grasland | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tableau simplifies the implementation of filters and parameters, making it easy to create dynamic dashboards. However, resetting these views to their original state can be surprisingly complex. While tableau does have a built in reset on filters, ...