Advanced Tableau Training Course

May 6, 2024 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

 We love to teachpeople how to use Tableau. Prior to joining Moxy Analytics,we taught people via blogs, presentations, the Community Forums, andconversations on social media for several years. One of the first things we didat Moxy Analytics was to...

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How to Make Your Cycle Plots Actionable in Tableau

May 3, 2024 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

Cycle plots are a fantastic way to identify seasonality in a data set. And you can make them even more useful by adding indicators for whether they are above or below the average.Here’s how you can do that in Tableau in only 2 minutes.Like this? Y...

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Using Google API To Get A Google Drive Directory

May 3, 2024 Salome Grasland | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Accessing a directory on Google Drive is crucial for a range of tasks, especially in collaborative and remote working environments. For example, you might need to retrieve file paths for hundreds of PDFs to incorporate them into a dashboard, or yo...

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Email Security at Its Finest

May 3, 2024 Marshall Roy | interworks.com

Today more than ever, IT is in a place where admins must be steps ahead of the bad guys. Email systems are one of the areas that is at the forefront of that battle. This is true for all companies regardless of size. Email is…The post Email Securit...

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Sleep Survey Marimekko

May 3, 2024 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

Week 18 2024, was the #Data24 TC edition, which we shared live during our session at TC. It was so wonderful to see so many people at our session, and to be able to meet one of our new coaches, Yusuke Nakanishi, in person. Sean set the challenge t...

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Two types of Dashboards

May 2, 2024 Aileen Pfleiderer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Just have a short look on my “Comparing Exploratory & Explanatory Dashboards”

Profit Ratio Why Is It Important And How To Calculate It Correctly In Ta...

May 2, 2024 Bruno Gasparotto Ponne | www.thedataschool.co.uk

What is profit ratio?

How to Highlight a Bar when Selecting

May 2, 2024 Calvin Gao | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Sometimes there is a desire to select a bar and highlight the bar selected.

Can I Change Colors by Selection in Tableau

May 2, 2024 Sayd Abdul Tawab Hussainy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The short answer is “YES.” I have implemented it with parameters. Let’s see how it works.

A Use Case for Generating New Rows in Tableau Prep

May 2, 2024 Yan Peng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

“New Rows” is a quite handy feature in Tableau Prep for filling gaps in sequential data, often used to generate dates. In this post, we will look at a fictitious use case where new rows have to be generated to make the data aggregatable.

Which chart should you use for your analysis

May 1, 2024 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

Over on Tableau Public, Judit Bekker create this fantastic directory of charts to help you pick the one that’s most appropriate for your analysis.Check it out below.

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How to Create a Cycle Plot in Tableau

May 1, 2024 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

A cycle plot is used to display cyclical patterns or trends over time, such as days of the week or months, to identify patterns, compare groups, and visualize seasonality in data.

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What did it take to get into DSNY8

May 1, 2024 Mel Niere | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Introducing the members of Cohort 8 at The Data School New York!

Paper to Pixel

May 1, 2024 Aileen Pfleiderer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Exploring the Transition: Navigating from Analog to Digital Sketching or “How I learned digital sketching using a cocktail dataset”

Data School Blog Roundup - April 2024

May 1, 2024 Mel Niere | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Check out what our Data School consultants have written about!

Butterflycharts in Tableau

May 1, 2024 Dominik Wieser | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In diesem Blog will ich Schritt für Schritt zeigen wie man mein persönliches Lieblingschart bauen kann, das sogenannte Butterfly Chart.

How I Create a Unit Histogram in Tableau

Apr 30, 2024 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

A unit histogram is a chart that shows the distribution of data points across a series of bins of a measure.Unlike a traditional histogram that uses bars, a unit histogram consists of a set of marks, each representing a member of a dimension. In t...

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How to make Drill Down Bar Charts in Tableau One Level

Apr 30, 2024 Calvin Gao | www.thedataschool.co.uk

To make a one level drill down bar chart in tableau, we can use parameters or actions.

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Formatting Dates in Alteryx

Apr 30, 2024 Alex Bernaciak | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Like most data reading tools, Alteryx is quite picky when it comes to reading Dates. When inputting data, most fields containing dates will be read in as strings unless converted manually.

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Auf Deutsch Gesagt Analysing Data In German

Apr 30, 2024 Bruno Gasparotto Ponne | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In The Data School in Hamburg, our training happens both in German and in English. Therefore, consultants who are not native German speakers learn data analysis and, at the same time, improve their German language skills, especially technical expr...

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Snowflake Cortex Time Series Forecasting Introduction

Apr 30, 2024 Roger Garcia | interworks.com

In today’s data-driven landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) has permeated every corner of industry and technology. From personalized recommendations on streaming platforms to optimizing supply chains in manufacturing, AI algorithms are revoluti...

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How to Create a Comet Chart in Tableau

Apr 29, 2024 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

A comet chart is a type of visualization used to display the trajectory of data points over time. They’re often used to compare one time period to another to see the direction of the change.The tail starts at the first time period and grows like a...

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Power BI Query Week

Apr 29, 2024 Sayd Abdul Tawab Hussainy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

First Impression:After working with Tableau for almost three months and learning from various resources and functions, transitioning to the Power BI environment and functions proved challenging. Unlike Tableau, Power BI doesn’t have separate works...

Creating Personal Access Tokens in Tableau ServerCloud

Apr 29, 2024 Erlina Cahyadi | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In writing the documentation for some of my workflows using the Tableau Server REST API, I realized that there’s not really any good instructions on how to create a Personal Access Tokens (PATs). The Tableau website does provides a lot of good inf...

So Youve Decided to Use a Visual Analytics ToolWhat Now

Apr 29, 2024 Matt Snively | playfairdata.com

Why do we use visual analytics tools? Everyone may have different goals with their visualizations, but I think the overall…The post So You’ve Decided to Use a Visual Analytics Tool–What Now? appeared first on Playfair Data.

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Normalisierung absoluter Zahlen

Apr 28, 2024 Yan Peng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In diesem Beitrag zeige ich, wie man durch Datenzusammenführung und Berechnung absolute Werte in Bezug auf eine Größe normiert, um die Zahlen in einen Kontext zu setzen und sie vergleichbar zu machen. Die Pro-Kopf-Berechnung ist ein typischer Anwe...

PYD131 InterWorks San Diego with Kate An and Brandon Nelson

Apr 27, 2024 InterWorks | interworks.com

In this episode, Content Manager Garrett Sauls sits down with Curator Engineer Kate An and Support Engineer Brandon Nelson to talk about their respective services, Curator by InterWorks and Assist by InterWorks, and share some insider tips on the ...

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Jumpy Curvy Things in Tableau

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

I received a request to teach how to build a jump plot during Next-Level Tableau office hours. The idea was to recreate this visualization that I created for Makeover Monday back in 2018.The problem, though, was that the data preparation was done ...

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How-To Set Up a Trellis Chart in Tableau

Apr 26, 2024 Cecily Santiago | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A trellis chart is a grid where each cell in the grid is the same chart type with the same x- and y-axes but filtered to a different value for some dimension. For example, you could have a grid where each cell is a line chart of sales over time wi...

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How-To Build a Trellis of Line Charts in Tableau

Apr 26, 2024 Cecily Santiago | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A trellis chart is a grid where each cell in the grid is the same chart type with the same x- and y-axes but filtered to a different value for some dimension. These can be a useful way to view and compare many values at once.

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2024,Buffer,DynamicZoneVisibility,MAKEPOINT,MapLayers,ParameterActions,Spatial,VizinTooltip,Week17

How-To Build a Trellis of Donut Charts in Tableau

Apr 26, 2024 Cecily Santiago | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A trellis chart is a grid where each cell in the grid is the same chart type with the same x- and y-axes but filtered to a different value for some dimension. These can be a useful way to view and compare many values at once.

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2024,Buffer,DynamicZoneVisibility,MAKEPOINT,MapLayers,ParameterActions,Spatial,VizinTooltip,Week17

How-To Build a Trellis of Bar Charts in Tableau

Apr 26, 2024 Cecily Santiago | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A trellis chart is a grid where each cell in the grid is the same chart type with the same x- and y-axes but filtered to a different value for some dimension. These can be a useful way to view and compare many values at once.

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2024,Buffer,DynamicZoneVisibility,MAKEPOINT,MapLayers,ParameterActions,Spatial,VizinTooltip,Week17

The ULTIMATE Guide to Custom Visualizations in Tableau

Apr 25, 2024 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

Here’s the ultimate guide to custom visualizations in Tableau. Each chart contains a link to a tutorial so you can build it too.I rarely use these charts on a day-to-day basis, but they are a fantastic way to build your technical skills.Have you u...

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Simon Sineks Golden Circle The Information Lab

Apr 25, 2024 Jeffrey Brian Thompson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In today’s discussion, DS44 delved into Simon Sinek’s influential concept, the “Golden Circle.” This framework helps explain why some organisations and leaders manage to inspire and achieve more effective outcomes than others. It’s structured into...

Data,PodcastYourData,Tableau,TableauConference

Exporting Yearly Variance Data to Excel with Tableau Crosstabs

Apr 25, 2024 Salome Grasland | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tableau has the great ability to crosstab to excel. This can be a really helpful tool for using tableau to do certain calculations that Excel may not be able to handle. This blog will cover how to create an excel sheet that contains years on colum...

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Bcher und Daten Mit Tableau zur Dendrogramm-Visualisierung

Apr 25, 2024 Dominik Wieser | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Und am Anfang stand der Datensatz

Data,PodcastYourData,Tableau,TableauConference

PYD130 InterWorks LA and Tableau Cloud Migration with Sarah Dorfman

Apr 25, 2024 InterWorks | interworks.com

  In this episode, Content Manager Garrett Sauls sits down with Analytics Architect Sarah Dorfman to talk about living in Los Angeles, Tableau Cloud Migration and the upcoming Tableau Conference 2024.The post PYD130 – InterWorks LA and Tableau Clo...

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How far would total steps from TC23 respondents take you

Apr 25, 2024 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

As community month draws to a close, long term participant Deborah Simmonds set us a map based challenge based on TC23 data. I chose to use the data that was associated to the solution workbook, rather than take the direct source, so bear that in ...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2024,Buffer,DynamicZoneVisibility,MAKEPOINT,MapLayers,ParameterActions,Spatial,VizinTooltip,Week17

20 Dashboard Design Best Practices

Apr 24, 2024 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

Understanding best practices when designing dashboards is critical for ensuring they are used, useful, and help drive the business forward.

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The Monkey in Your Head

Apr 24, 2024 Rui Pedro Fernandes Ramos | www.thedataschool.co.uk

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TableauPrep

Label First and Last Points Only in a Tableau Graph

Apr 24, 2024 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Do you want to label just the first and last point in a graph in Tableau? For a line graph, that’s simply a couple clicks away. But for a bar chart or any other type of graph, it might be a bit more involved.

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How to Create Rounded Bar Charts in Tableau

Apr 23, 2024 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

A rounded bar chart is a type of bar chart where the ends of the bars are rounded instead of being straight. They create a more visually appealing and softer look to the chart.

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How to Create a Schema on SQL

Apr 23, 2024 Saampave Sanmuhanathan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Before we learn how to create a schema on SQL we must understand what a schema is. A schema defines the structure of data including: the tables that contain the data, the columns and their corresponding data type in each table and the relationship...

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PYD129 Tableau Conference History with Dan Murray

Apr 23, 2024 InterWorks | interworks.com

  In this episode, Content Manager Garrett Sauls sits down with InterWorks Director of Strategic Innovations and Tableau community legend Dan Murray to discuss the history of Tableau Conference ahead of TC24.The post PYD129 – Tableau Conference Hi...

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Diagnosing Issues in Matillion ETL Using Component Level Logging

Apr 23, 2024 Mike Oldroyd | interworks.com

Sometimes when you’re developing a data pipeline in Matillion ETL, you may find that a component that you’re working on just isn’t behaving as you expect. It might be producing unexpected output, or it might just be behaving in an odd way but with...

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