Navbar
  • Home (current)
  • About

Dashboard Week Day 5

May 30, 2025 Zaman Bilal Iqbal | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For the final day of Dashboard Week, I chose to work with the NASA Natural Event Tracker (EONET) API, which provides data on natural events across the globe. After an initial exploration of the API’s offerings, it quickly became apparent that wild...

Data,AI,data,DataGovernance

Dashboard Week Challenge 5 - NASA API

May 30, 2025 Victor Yuan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Using API’s to give information about Space Rocks? This was a creative last challenge

Data,AI,data,DataGovernance

My First Sigma Dashboard Unpacking a Suite of Visualization Tools

May 30, 2025 Bennett Frohock | interworks.com

As a Tableau, Power BI and Excel user, the idea of a spreadsheet based BI tool struck me as an interesting concept. I had heard that Sigma had a powerful visualization toolset, but l lacked some of the customization options of more traditional BI ...

Data,Dashboard,dataprep,dataviz,Sigma

InterWorks Guide to Snowflake Summit 2025

May 30, 2025 Garrett Sauls | interworks.com

Conference season is in full swing! If you’re in the data warehousing and data cloud world at all, then you know we have a big one coming up next week. That’s right, Snowflake Summit 2025 officially kicks off next week from June 2-5 (that’s Monday...

Data,AI,Cortex,Events,Openflow,Snowflake,SnowflakeSummit

Using Postman to Debug API Errors in Alteryx

May 29, 2025 Gabriel Bryan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When building data workflows in Alteryx, it’s common to integrate external APIs. It’s also (frustratingly) common for your API calls to fail or return unexpected results. Debugging API errors directly in Alteryx can be tricky.

Data,AI,data,DataGovernance

Dashboard Week Path of Exile

May 29, 2025 Gabriel Louks-Kirwan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today’s challenge centered around the computer game Path of Exile…haven’t got a clue what that is ? We’ll neither did i …

Data,AI,data,DataGovernance

Dashboard Week Day 5 NASA

May 29, 2025 Robbin Vernooij | www.thedataschool.co.uk

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has a plethora of free API’s available to pull some amazing data from. Today’s challenge is to pick one (or multiple) API’s of your choice to pull your data from and use to build report of your ...

Data,AI,data,DataGovernance

Dashboard Week - Day 4 Path of Exile

May 29, 2025 Amy Peacham | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For Dashboard Day 4, we were tasked with creating a dashboard around one of Robbin’s favourite video games, ‘Path or Exile’. So to begin this challenge I first needed to do some research on what this game was all about.

Data,AI,data,DataGovernance

Dashboard Week - Day 4 Diving Into the Gaming Economy

May 29, 2025 Aronas Zilys | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today’s task took a unique turn. We were dropped straight into the dark, gritty world of one of the most revered action RPGs out there — Path of Exile. The challenge? To understand and visualise a slice of this game’s player-driven economy.

Data,AI,data,DataGovernance

Dashboard Week Day 4

May 29, 2025 Miffy Allen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today we were tasked with creating a dashboard in Tableau using Path of Exile economy data.

Data,AI,data,DataGovernance

Dashboard Week Day 2 Analyzing UK Street Crimes

May 29, 2025 Gabriel Louks-Kirwan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For Day 2 of DS49’s Dashboard Week, our challenge was to work with UK Street Crime data between March 2024 and March 2025. Using data sourced from the UK Police Data Portal, we were tasked with designing an interactive Alteryx app that would allow...

Data,AI,data,DataGovernance

Dashboard Week Challenge 4 - Video Game Economy

May 29, 2025 Victor Yuan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Exploring Path of Exile’s unique player-driven economy by building a dashboard to track currency and item trends across leagues.

Data,AI,data,DataGovernance

Context and Focus in Data Storytelling

May 29, 2025 Gabriela Scherbinek | www.thedataschool.co.uk

As part of my Data Analytics training, I’ve been reading Storytelling with Data by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic. In her book, she explains that just showing numbers or charts isn’t enough and shows how we can use data to tell clear stories that people ...

Data,AI,data,DataGovernance

Data Ethics Why Should We Care

May 29, 2025 Nayeem Ahmed | interworks.com

Data Trends for 2025 Data has often been described as the new oil because the effective use of it can revolutionize our society just like fossil fuels have in the past. Consumers continue to create and share data at a faster pace and businesses co...

Data,AI,dataethics,datastrategy,datatrends

Dashboard Week Day 4 Video Game Economy

May 28, 2025 Robbin Vernooij | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Enter the world of Path of Exile.This video game has a unique economy and a very active player base, parts of which track the economy trends.So for today I would like you to design and build a dashboard that allows you to dive into a slice of the ...

Data,AI,data,DataGovernance

Dashboard Week - Day 3 UK Street Crimes

May 28, 2025 Amy Peacham | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For day three of our dashboard challenge, the focus was on analysing UK Street Crime data spanning from March 2024 to March 2025. The goal? To build a dynamic Alteryx app that empowers users to filter the data by a specific date range, crime categ...

Data,AI,data,DataGovernance

APIs in Alteryx Three Ways to Specify Parameters

May 28, 2025 Amanda Rodriguez | www.thedataschool.co.uk

If you’ve been following my blog posts, you are a pro at understanding how URLs for API calls work. Or, at least you know where to find more answers (hint: start with the documentation!).

Data,AI,data,DataGovernance

5 ways to become faster in Tableau

May 28, 2025 Stosh Sawicz | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tableau can be used for a multitude of reasons. Whether you are using it for critical business reporting or exploratory personal projects, efficiency is always an important part of building great visualizations. Here are 5 quick tricks that will h...

Data,AI,data,DataGovernance

Mastering Data Governance Setting the Stage

May 28, 2025 Brooks Barth | interworks.com

Here’s a question for you: If you were asked to define “Data Governance,” how confident would you be in your answer? Considering how quickly the data space is changing, we wouldn’t blame you if your confidence in that answer isn’t as high as you’d...

Data,AI,data,DataGovernance

Making Data Analytics Dashboards More Accessible for Neurodivergent People

May 27, 2025 Gabriel Louks-Kirwan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For the second day of dashboard week, we explored the importance of Accessible, Inclusive, and Universal Design — and how these principles shape the way we build dashboards.

Data,AI,Anthropic,Claude,Google,Microsoft,OpenAI

Making Dashboards Friendlier for the Neurodiverse Mind

May 27, 2025 Aronas Zilys | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For Day 2 of Dashboard Week, I chose to redesign an existing dashboard with neurodiversity in mind—focusing especially on dyscalculia, a learning difference that affects how people process numbers.

Data,AI,Anthropic,Claude,Google,Microsoft,OpenAI

Dashboard Week Day 3 UK Street Crimes

May 27, 2025 Robbin Vernooij | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For day 2, DS49 will be analysing data about UK Street Crimes between March 2024 and March 2025 and use Alteryx to build an App that updates a visualisation.

Data,AI,Anthropic,Claude,Google,Microsoft,OpenAI

Dashboard Week - Day 2 Accessibility

May 27, 2025 Amy Peacham | www.thedataschool.co.uk

On the second day of Dashboard Week, my challenge was to redesign a dashboard based on TIL’s financial data with accessibility as the core focus. Specifically, the task was to tailor the dashboard for a user who navigates entirely using a keyboard.

Data,AI,Anthropic,Claude,Google,Microsoft,OpenAI

Dashboard Week Day 2

May 27, 2025 Zaman Bilal Iqbal | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day 2 of Dashboard Week was focused on accessibility, a session where we learnt how to build dashboards ensuring we account for different types of impairments and needs.

Data,AI,Anthropic,Claude,Google,Microsoft,OpenAI

Dashboard Week Challenge 2 - Accessibility

May 27, 2025 Victor Yuan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Accessible design means thinking beyond the mouse - keyboard-friendly dashboards open your data to everyone

Data,AI,Anthropic,Claude,Google,Microsoft,OpenAI

A Big Week in AI

May 27, 2025 Ben Bausili | interworks.com

What Happened? Last week brought a burst of AI announcements from the major players, each positioning their latest capabilities as breakthrough advances: OpenAI launched Codex research preview for parallel agent orchestration in coding. Microsoft ...

Data,AI,Anthropic,Claude,Google,Microsoft,OpenAI

Getting into the Data School From Davids perspective

May 26, 2025 David Gandary | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When I was going through the application process for to the Data School, I looked everywhere for stories from people who had done it. So now that I’m in, I want to share my experience.

Data,AI,Anthropic,Claude,Google,Microsoft,OpenAI

The Flerlage Twins Story Part 1 We Started as Babies

May 26, 2025 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

 For a while now, people have beensuggesting that we write a post sharing the story of our journey—how we gotstarted, created flerlagetwins.com, joined Moxy, and ended up with theopportunity to speak on the keynote stage at Tableau Conference 2025...

OurStory,Tableau

Datumsformate in Tableau richtig erkennen mit 2025-05-25PARSE

May 25, 2025 Gabriela Scherbinek | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Während meiner ersten Projektwoche in der Data School bin ich auf ein Problem in der Datenbearbeitung mit Tableau gestoßen, das sich nicht so einfach mit den gängigen Methoden wie “Änderung des Datentyps” oder Nutzung der 2025-05-25-Funktion beheb...

Data,AI,Anthropic,Claude,Google,Microsoft,OpenAI

Selecting What Sheets to Show in Dashboards using Dynamic Zone Visibility

May 24, 2025 Hannah Norfolk | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Hi everyone!

Data,AI,Anthropic,Claude,Google,Microsoft,OpenAI

Can you make a drill down chart

May 24, 2025 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

Yusuke set the #WOW2025 challenge this week, asking us to build a chart that was drill downable and drill uppable 🙂 I had a fair idea of how this was going to play out, knowing it would involve parameter actions and built the main table fairly qui...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2025,DualAxis,DynamicAxisTitles,fakeaxis,FIXEDLOD,INDEX,MIN0,ParameterActions,Sorting,TableCalculations,Week21

Creating a Parameter filter with an All option

May 22, 2025 Stosh Sawicz | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Usually, using a parameter to filter a graph is better than simply creating a filter on a dimension because not only can we filter our charts, we can also use it in many other places in the marks card as well as use the value of the parameter in v...

TableauDates

3 things you should do when beginning to build a business dashboard

May 22, 2025 Stosh Sawicz | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When you start building a business dashboard, it can be really tempting to immediately start placing down visualizations, but oftentimes that leads to a messy container structure and makes it difficult to reposition charts if you end up needing to...

TableauDates

Using a ThoughtSpot REST Package

May 22, 2025 Justin Lyons | interworks.com

The package I’ve been building throughout this series is a simple API for calling REST API’s against your ThoughtSpot cluster. Let’s walk through how to use it! Requirements This package is built to be used in Laravel applications and requires PHP...

Data,ThoughtSpot

Data Strategies Myths vs. Realities Whats Effective and Whats Not

May 22, 2025 Emily Miley | interworks.com

Note: This is a quick writeup of the content from a webinar of the same name. If you want to give it a watch, check it out here! Data is the new oil — but only if you know how to refine it. In today’s…The post Data Strategies Myths vs. Realities: ...

Data

Tableau Quick Tip Dynamic Date Parameters

May 21, 2025 Eliza Hokanson | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Have you ever built a viz that’s practically perfect except for one little thing?

TableauDates

How to avoid Tiled Objects in your Dashboard Layout

May 21, 2025 Amanda Rodriguez | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When applying to the Data School, it can be tempting to look at data art and aim for those kinds of dashboards with custom solutions, but as a consultant, you’re going to want to build dashboards that are easy for your user to use and possibly mai...

TableauDates

Getting The Data for My DS Application A Beautiful Soup

May 21, 2025 Miles Cumiskey | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The Goal

TableauDates

Critiquing my Original Data School Viz

May 21, 2025 Brandon Traditi | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Being at The Data School for nearing two months I’ve had plenty of practice creating, critiquing, and understanding Tableau dashboards. So, today I thought it would be nice to critique my own initial application viz.

TableauDates

Creating an Interactive Selection Window in Tableau

May 21, 2025 Gabriel Bryan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Recently, I was tasked with creating a configuration window within Tableau that would allow the user to select records from a table, storing them for later use in a second dashboard. This was quite a fun and interesting experience, so I’ve decided...

TableauDates

5 Tips for Applying to The Data School

May 21, 2025 Amanda Rodriguez | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Applying to the Data School has been one of the most unique application processes I’ve ever gone through. While I’m proud of my resume, I found the merit based review process to be authentic, real and clear; I didn’t even share my resume in my app...

TableauDates

How to Calculate Equivalent Comparison Dates in Tableau

May 21, 2025 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Do you need to use Tableau to compare values to an equivalent date from a prior year? For example, “How did sales from this Monday compare to the same Monday from last year?”

TableauDates

How clock changes work in the UK and what it means for your data processes

May 21, 2025 Gwilym | gwilymlockwood.com

Twice a year, clock changes in the UK cause mild chaos. The extent of this chaos depends on your computer settings, your remote desktop/server settings, and how exactly you’ve set stuff up to figure out what the time is. We normally describe it by...

Uncategorized,data,time

Visualizing Tableau Calculated Field Logic with Mermaid Flowcharts

May 20, 2025 Stefan Ladwig | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This guide explains how to represent the logic of a Tableau calculated field as a visual flowchart using Mermaid, a text-to-chart tool. This can be very helpful for understanding and explaining complex calculations.

TableauDates

Dashboard Week Day 1 Power BI

May 20, 2025 Aronas Zilys | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Chelsea FC Player Performance Analysis

TableauDates

  • « Prev
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • Next »
webjeda