How To Ask ChatGPT For Color Assistance

Jan 24, 2024 Franziska Schwade | www.thedataschool.co.uk

ChatGPT is not only excellent for coding but also for generating color codes! If you ever find yourself stuck on color combinations or need assistance exploring various shades of a single color, ChatGPT has got your back.

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Day 3 in SQL How much data is too much data

Jan 24, 2024 Hannah Bartholomew | www.thedataschool.co.uk

#DS42’s Day 3 of Dashboard Week!

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Dashboard Week Day 3 SQL

Jan 24, 2024 Aurora Malinauskaite | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day 3 of Dashboard Week brought some SQL trouble!

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DS42 Dashboard Week Day 3

Jan 24, 2024 Robbin Vernooij | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I quote DS42: “Can we have more content on SQL please?”

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Applying Gestalt Principles to Dashboard Design

Jan 24, 2024 Alyssa Huff | playfairdata.com

Have you ever heard the Gestalt Principles referenced when people are talking about data visualization or design? The Gestalt Principles…The post Applying Gestalt Principles to Dashboard Design appeared first on Playfair Data.

Design,Intermediate,Storytelling

Filter Selected and Comparison Periods at the Same Time in Tableau

Jan 24, 2024 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Filtering on a date range in Tableau is pretty straightforward, right? But how about if you want to filter on that date range AND you want a comparison date range filtered at the same time? That’s trickier.

TableauDashboards,TableauDates

Why And How to Document Your Work as a Data Consultant

Jan 23, 2024 Lisa Hitch | www.thedataschool.co.uk

As a Data Consultant, documenting your work is an extremely crucial part of your work. This article will break down why we need to document our work, best practices how to do that, and show you plenty of examples in Alteryx, Tableau, and Tableau P...

Data,AWS,DataProductivityCloud,Matillion,SecretsManager

What is the Data Ink Ratio

Jan 23, 2024 Calvin Gao | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Data Ink Ratio, defined by Edward Tufte, would be the amount of ink used to represent the data over the amount of ink on the dashboard

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Tableau TIL and Alteryx

Jan 23, 2024 Calvin Gao | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Within the data community are the Tableau and Alteryx Community. Let’s dive in one by one:

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Tableau Hack Add a Custom Color Palette to Tableau

Jan 23, 2024 Cecily Santiago | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tableau has many built-in color palettes that you can select from, but sometimes you might want to create a custom palette. Perhaps you’re following brand guidelines, creating your own aesthetic, or theming your dashboard to go with the topic. Ins...

Data,AWS,DataProductivityCloud,Matillion,SecretsManager

SQL Advanced Queries

Jan 23, 2024 Alan Grunberg | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog post I will walk through some advanced SQL queries. Here’s the entity relationship diagram for the database I’ll be using:

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LODs Fundamentals

Jan 23, 2024 Alex Briody | www.thedataschool.co.uk

What is an LOD?

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For the love of templates

Jan 23, 2024 Hannah Bartholomew | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day 2 of #DS42 Dashboard Week

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Dot Strip Plots Jitter Plots

Jan 23, 2024 Alex Briody | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Creating Dot Strip Plots

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Dashboard week Day 2 Templates

Jan 23, 2024 Aurora Malinauskaite | www.thedataschool.co.uk

An overview of day 2 of dashboard week.

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Dashboard Week Day 2- Templating in Power BI Tableau

Jan 23, 2024 Yoan Caboste | www.thedataschool.co.uk

On the second day of dashboard week we were tasked to design and create two templates across two different software’s: Tableau & PowerBI, e.g. one template for each software.

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Dashboard Week Day 2 - Templates

Jan 23, 2024 Faith Rotich | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today’s dashboard week task was a fun one: creating dashboard templates for Tableau and Power BI.

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Dashboard Week Day 2 - Template design

Jan 23, 2024 Thomas Smith | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For the second day of dashboard week we were set the challenge of creating two dashboard templates. One was to be produced in Tableau using the Sample superstore dataset, a sample sales information dataset, and sample HR data in Power BI. This blo...

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Dashboard Week- Day 2

Jan 23, 2024 Harvey Joyce | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In Day 2 of Dashboard Week, we were working with both Tableau and Power BI to create Dashboard Templates!

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DS42 Dashboard Week Day 2

Jan 23, 2024 Robbin Vernooij | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day 2 of dashboard week consists of a template challenge. Having templates in your back pocket can be super useful when you are working on tight deadlines, require inspiration or when you’re asked to showcase examples. They save you time and ultim...

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A Practical Guide to Lesson Planning

Jan 23, 2024 Salome Grasland | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In the dynamic landscape of education designing a lesson plan that engages students, enhances critical thinking, and achieves learning objectives is crucial. This blog post aims to provide a practical guide for educators facing the challenge of st...

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Using AWS Secrets Manager in Matillion Data Productivity Cloud

Jan 23, 2024 Fadi Al Rayes | interworks.com

Last month, Matillion launched the Data Productivity Cloud (DPC). In our introductory blog post, we highlighted how this new SaaS product simplifies managing multiple data sources and performing transformations — all from a single pipeline and rig...

Data,AWS,DataProductivityCloud,Matillion,SecretsManager

Let Dashboard Week Commence Day 1 Accessibility

Jan 22, 2024 Hannah Bartholomew | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day 1 of dashboard week! #DS42

Import and Run Saved Python Functions in Tableau

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

In the previous blog, I shared how to install the TabPy server and run Python code in Tableau with 4 SCRIPT functions. If you have to work with many calculations but those calculations repeat many times, it could cause a bad performance. Finding a...

Dashboard Week- Day 1 Accessibility

Jan 22, 2024 Harvey Joyce | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day 1 of Dashboard Week is here! Today we were learning about accessibility and inclusive design.

Dashboard Week Day 1

Jan 22, 2024 Aurora Malinauskaite | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Dashboard Week Day 1 saw us tackling challenging around the topic of accessibility. I created a dashboard with the aim of catering to as wide of an audience of possible.

Dashboard Design for the Visually Impaired

Jan 22, 2024 Yoan Caboste | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For the first day of the infamous dashboard week, we were tasked with designing a dashboard for a visually impaired stakeholder.

Dashboard Day 1 Accessibility

Jan 22, 2024 Beza Taye | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today we we’re introduced to accessibility and how it impacts our design choices to ensure that nobody feels excluded from being able to interpret a visualization.

Accessibility - Dashboard Week Day 1

Jan 22, 2024 Dan Wade | www.thedataschool.co.uk

DS42: Dashboard Week - Day 1: Todays challenge was all about accessibility. In this blog, I talk through how we went about rebuilding a dashboard tailored towards a keyboard-only user.

How to Hire a Tableau Developer in 2024

Jan 22, 2024 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Need to hire a Tableau Developer? We can help!

A Journey Through The Design Process Guest Blog Post by Damola Ladipo

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

   This is a guest blog post is from Damola Ladipo. Based in Washington DC, Damola works as a Senior Data Visualization Specialist for DevTech Systems at USAID Data Services. Damola is a Tableau Public Ambassador, a 7x Viz of the Day w...

Tableau

How to Expand Yor Analysis by Generating Your Own Fake Data

Jan 21, 2024 Nuki Susanti | www.thedataschool.co.uk

On the Week 11 Training, we have a task to do another business-like dashboard using Real World Fake Data (#RWFD). I selected the supply chain one (found here). My first intention was to explore network visualization as supply chain has very busy n...

First Experience with Alteryx

Jan 21, 2024 Nuki Susanti | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Note - This post is published bit too late than it was written. I had it ready right after Aletryx training, but somehow forgot to publish.

Install TabPy and Run Python Script in Tableau

Jan 18, 2024 Le Luu | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Python is applied in AI development, Data Science, Machine Learning and other applications. Tableau integrated Python script in Tableau Desktop from Tableau version 2019 and later. According to the Tableau page, TabPy allows Tableau users to remot...

Uncategorized,blogging,Tableau

Can you dynamically zoom into a clustered area

Jan 18, 2024 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

For this week’s #WOW2024 challenge, Lorna revisited an old #WOW2021 challenge based on Hans Rosling’s chart used in his famous TED talk. Modelling the data The first part of the challenge involves modelling the data. Since I’d blogged a solution g...

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Using set actions to allow user to click on a bar chart in a different c...

Jan 17, 2024 Alex Briody | www.thedataschool.co.uk

We begin with a bar chart…

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Keeping special French Characters when inputing a file in Alteryx

Jan 17, 2024 Adrien Sourdille | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Introduction:Alteryx, a powerful data analytics and preparation tool, has proven to be indispensable for users seeking to transform raw data into valuable insights. However, users often encounter challenges when dealing with special French charact...

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Sheet Swapping in Tableau with Dynamic Zone Visibility

Jan 17, 2024 Andrew Watson | tarsolutions.co.uk

Dynamic Zone Visibility entered the Tableau toolkit with Tableau 2022, and it’s a game changer for sheet swapping. Prior to the existence of Dynamic Zone … Read moreSource

Tableau,sheetswapping,tableau

How to Upload a Private Dashboard to Tableau Public

Jan 17, 2024 Ollie Linley | onenumber.biz

Can you make a Tableau Public dashboard private? Kind of!

TableauPublic

Reflecting on Five Years of Blogging

Jan 17, 2024 Marc Reid | datavis.blog

I’ve been writing monthly blog posts on this site for the last five years. This post looks back on why I started, what I’ve learnt, and why I’m stopping.

Uncategorized,blogging,Tableau

Optimizing Tableau Relational Models With Row-Level Security Filters

Jan 17, 2024 Jubail Caballero | interworks.com

In Part two of this series, we covered a method of distillation to reduce data volume and size. However, we need to translate our distilled records into their non-distilled forms. In addition, we’ll cover the concept of global and local filters an...

Data,filters,RLS,security,Tableau

Tools to help you improve your dashboard design

Jan 16, 2024 Volha Fiadotava | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In the field of data visualization, attractive design plays a critical role in effectively communicating information and engaging the audience. Here we’ll look at a set of tools that can help you improve your data visualization design.

Tableau,sheetswapping,tableau

Spatial Analytics in Alteryx Part 3

Jan 16, 2024 Le Luu | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Continue to the first and second parts of the Spatial Analytics in Alteryx series, I am going to write the last part about Spatial tools. In the first part, I introduced 3 main Spatial Objects, and how to create each type of Spatial Object in Alte...

Tableau,sheetswapping,tableau

Fake Highlights in Tableau

Jan 16, 2024 Finn Kappus | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tableau has the built-in feature that when you select a data point in a graph it becomes highlighted and other data points are blurred out (see example). However, there is a way to avoid this highlight by adding a fake highlight.

Tableau,sheetswapping,tableau

Tableau Prep Builder and Tableau Prep Conductor for Data Automation

Jan 16, 2024 Nick Cassara | playfairdata.com

With the ever growing emphasis on data visualization and analysis, it is easy to overlook the backend processes and tools.…The post Tableau Prep Builder and Tableau Prep Conductor for Data Automation appeared first on Playfair Data.

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