Alteryx Macros Getting Started

Nov 1, 2023 Numa Begum | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A macro is described as a workflow that is packaged up into a single Alteryx tool, this means it can be saved, reused, shared and inserted into other workflows!

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Alteryx Macros

Nov 1, 2023 Jules Claeys | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A macro is a workflow, or a group of tools built into a single tool to be inserted into another workflow. This permits to re-use a process and not rebuild it every time. Permits normalisation of data, solve problems, offers functionality that alte...

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Advice for the Next Cohort

Nov 1, 2023 Ali Fawwaz | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Dear new Data Schoolers,

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UpSet Plot

Nov 1, 2023 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

Luke Stanke tells us that in November, #WOW2023 will feature guest coaches, selected for their valuable and interesting contributions to the Tableau Community. As the first guest, Venkatesh Iyer presents us with a challenging exercise that involve...

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Grfico UpSet

Nov 1, 2023 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

Luke Stanke nos indica que en noviembre, #WOW2023 contará con coaches invitados, seleccionados por sus valiosas e interesantes contribuciones en la Comunidad de Tableau. Como primer invitado, Venkatesh Iyer nos presenta un desafiante ejercicio que...

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3 Reasons to Learn Figma as a Data Analyst

Nov 1, 2023 Zoya Zafar | playfairdata.com

Figma isn’t just for designers. If you’re a data engineer, analyst, Tableau / PowerBI user who has been curious about…The post 3 Reasons to Learn Figma as a Data Analyst appeared first on Playfair Data.

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How to Hide Data with a Filter in Tableau LOOKUP LAST FIRST

Nov 1, 2023 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

If you want to reference data that isn’t visible in your Tableau worksheet, you’re going to need a trick to ‘hide’ that data rather than filter it out of the worksheet entirely. For example, if you want to calculate year over year growth but only ...

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How to Create a YearQuarterMonthDay Drilldown in Tableau

Oct 31, 2023 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

Are you looking to take your Tableau skills to the next level? Do you want to create dashboards that offer a dynamic and interactive experience? Look no further! This comprehensive tutorial will walk you through the process of creating a Year→Quar...

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To filter or to highlight that is the question

Oct 31, 2023 Myles Stevenson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When visualizing data its a tricky choice whether to highlight or filter, this blog should help you choose an answer

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Spatial in tableau

Oct 31, 2023 Jules Claeys | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Spatial data can be used in tableau, alteryx and power BI. Using latitude and longitude locations can be placed on a map. They can also be linked to one another in order to see paths, line, tableau also allow the ability to create buffer zones.  

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Spatial Analytics in Tableau Alteryx

Oct 31, 2023 Numa Begum | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Spatial analytics is important for data that represents location or geographical points. Tableau and Alteryx have spatial tools within the software to allow for analytical preparation and visualisation of spatial data.

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Spatial

Oct 31, 2023 Abby Poon | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Spatial functionality in both Tableau and Alteryx refers to the ability to work with geographical or location-based data within these data analytics and visualization tools.In this blog, we are going to use Airline Routes dataset to create a map c...

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Data School Application How to Stand Out

Oct 31, 2023 Numa Begum | www.thedataschool.co.uk

If you’re reading this, you’re probably starting your application for the Data School. If so, I have got 5 tips you need to know to get started!

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Calculated Columns vs Measures in Power BI

Oct 31, 2023 Faith Rotich | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Calculated columns and measures are both created on Power BI using DAX (Data Analysis EXpressions).

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Demystifying Variables in Matillion ETL

Oct 31, 2023 Barbara Hartmann | interworks.com

What Are Variables? If you have ever done any programming, and since you are reading this blog post you most likely have, you will be familiar with the concept of variables. They are these little helpers in which you can store almost anything, exc...

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How to compare Year over Year values in Tableau

Oct 31, 2023 Sean Miller | www.hipstervizninja.com

The challenge that started it all The Alpha #WOW challenge Remember your roots I’m on a mission to complete and record or livestream all solutions to every #WOW challenge since 2017. And it all starts right here with this challenge. This is the ch...

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Stats 101 in Alteryx

Oct 30, 2023 Jules Claeys | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Statistics are extremely useful to any analysis as they can help us make sense of and quantify trends in our data. In tableau statistics are mostly found in the analytics pane. A variety of tools can be used in alteryx for statistics:

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Row number functions.

Oct 30, 2023 Jules Claeys | www.thedataschool.co.uk

As part of my tableau certification I am going through tableau calc functions. What a great opportunity to write a blog about them!

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Linear regression plot with Deneb

Oct 30, 2023 Maddalena Mariano | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog is inspired by the following Workout Wednesday challenge (dataset in the link):

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ALT W O The answer to all tool tips

Oct 30, 2023 Myles Stevenson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tooltips in visualizations serve as crucial navigational aids that enhance user comprehension and interactivity. They act as bridges, filling in the gaps between what is immediately perceivable and the underlying details of a dataset.

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Corporate and Private Tableau Training

Oct 30, 2023 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Do you need private Tableau training for your team? Whether you want to learn about calculations, dashboarding, dashboard design, the fundamentals of Tableau Desktop or get comfortable with Tableau Prep, we’re here for you! We have 5 courses which...

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Preview Tableau Dashboards in Google Docs

Oct 30, 2023 Marc Reid | datavis.blog

One of the new features in version 2023.3 of Tableau is the ability to use Google smart chips within Google Docs to show a preview of a Tableau Cloud visualisation. What are Google smart chips? Google smart chips are a way to provide a preview to ...

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How to sort decades chronologically on Power BI

Oct 29, 2023 Faith Rotich | www.thedataschool.co.uk

How to use a separate date field to sort a chart chronologically by decade.

How to add a background image in Power BI

Oct 29, 2023 Faith Rotich | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This week, we had a fun but challenging project - rebuilding our application vizzes on Power BI. My application viz was set on a background image, which it turns out is pretty straightforward to add on Power BI.

Dashboard Week Day 4

Oct 29, 2023 Ali Fawwaz | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The fourth day of dashboard week was quite similar to the third, with less than a full day available to us. Many of us had important commitments, which is why we only started close to midday.

Dashboard Week 5th Day

Oct 29, 2023 Ali Fawwaz | www.thedataschool.co.uk

We’ve reached the end. It’s the last day of dashboard week and also our final training day. The task for this day was quite enjoyable. We were required to design our own resumes using a Tableau Dashboard! This task had two parts. The first part in...

The Joys of Pre-Attentive Attributes

Oct 27, 2023 Michael Imbriale | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The idea of a dashboard, especially in Tableau, is to help the user visualize the data. It is designed to assist the human eye in comprehending the information and making observations and decisions based on it. The most effective way to display de...

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My Road to Getting into the Data School

Oct 27, 2023 Michael Imbriale | www.thedataschool.co.uk

After graduating from college with my Business Analytics degree, I found myself in a minimum-wage job as a clubhouse assistant with little direction regarding my career in analytics. I knew I wanted to pursue a career in analytics, but I didn’t kn...

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Dashboard Week Third Day

Oct 27, 2023 Ali Fawwaz | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Yes, we are already here, it’s the third day. Today we had only half a day (3 hours) to build the dashboard because we had a training session.

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Dashboard Week Second Day

Oct 27, 2023 Ali Fawwaz | www.thedataschool.co.uk

KPI Dashboard in Power BI:

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Colour with Power BI

Oct 27, 2023 Aurora Malinauskaite | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Give your power BI dashboard that colour injection! In this blog, I describe two methods for conditional formatting of colour.

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Agile vs Waterfall Workflow

Oct 27, 2023 Hannah Bartholomew | www.thedataschool.co.uk

How to cross the finish line, from plan to final product. It is all about your workflow.

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Tableau Bridge The Serverless Space Odyssey

Oct 27, 2023 John Saunders | interworks.com

Launching Your Serverless Expedition If you are utilising or planning to migrate to Tableau Cloud and have your data or corporate infrastructure hosted on AWS and are seeking to deploy a containerised cluster of Tableau Bridge clients on a CentOS ...

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A Spooktacular Evening at the Singapore Tableau User Group Halloween Event

Oct 27, 2023 Kelionel Mak | interworks.com

The Singapore Tableau User Group (TUG) conjured up an unforgettable Halloween-themed extravaganza on 23 October 2023. Not only did they summon the presence of two esteemed Tableau Visionaries and Iron Viz Champions – Will Sutton and Tristan Guille...

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Web scraping with Alteryx

Oct 26, 2023 Myles Stevenson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Web scraping can be a really useful tool in order to get public information and enrich your own data to provide more context! Lets do an example together

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Valorant API in Alteryx

Oct 26, 2023 Numa Begum | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Valorant is a first-person shooter game by Riot Games, for this blog I will show you how I used a publicly available API to retrieve the game data, which I can transform and clean to potentially create a dashboard

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Snowflake SQL Creating a Table

Oct 26, 2023 Numa Begum | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog will cover creating a table and inputting your data using SQL code within Snowflake.

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Shadowing at IAG Cargo

Oct 26, 2023 Numa Begum | www.thedataschool.co.uk

As a part of our training at the Data School, we were given the opportunity to shadow another DS-er who is currently on placement. Today, I’ve been shadowing Dorinna Pentchev at IAG Cargo which handles the cargo division of international airlines....

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SQL Subqueries and CTEs

Oct 26, 2023 Numa Begum | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Within SQL users can use the result of one query within another query (query-ception), this can also be described as a nested or inner query. This is similar to using a Level of Detail (LOD) calculation.

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How to setup drill through filtering in Power BI with buttons

Oct 26, 2023 Dan Wade | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Drill through filtering is a feature in Power BI that allows users to explore and navigate through their data between charts. Learn what drill through filtering is, When drill through filtering is used and How to step up drill through filtering.

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Going Further Cleaning Up Your Measures Through Calculated Fields

Oct 26, 2023 Aaron Potts | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When your swappable metrics have different units, getting those units to display right is hard. Learn how to use calculated fields to display units properly in labels and tooltips.

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Dashboardwoche Tag 3

Oct 26, 2023 Tobias Fitschen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Die Sonne Ende Oktober scheint in einem sehr unangenehmen Winkel durch das Fenster, aber immerhin Sonne. Der Tag beginnt also gut und nach einem Training am Morgen begann auch der dritte Tag der Dashboardwoche. Ziel ist es eine Infografik zu erste...

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Creating Custom Graph Tooltips in Power BI

Oct 26, 2023 Beza Taye | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Creating a graph within a tooltip in Power BI can be a valuable way to provide users with additional insights and data visualizations without cluttering your main report. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to achieve this:

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Drill Down in Sales Analysis

Oct 26, 2023 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

Recently, it just so happened that some members of the community asked me about an exercise I shared on Tableau Public some time ago, so I thought it was the right time to prepare a post detailing the step-by-step required for its construction. Th...

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Drill Down en Anlisis de Ventas

Oct 26, 2023 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

Recientemente, coincidió que algunos miembros de la comunidad me preguntaron acerca de un ejercicio que compartí en Tableau Public hace algún tiempo, así que pensé que era el momento adecuado para preparar un post detallando el paso a paso requeri...

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