PYD123 Data Science AI and Dataiku with Rachel Kurtz

Aug 18, 2023 InterWorks | interworks.com

  InterWorks’ Content Manager Garrett Sauls sits down with two time Dataiku Neuron and InterWorks Analytics Architect Rachel Kurtz about the AI/ML craze, what’s new with Dataiku and more.The post PYD123 – Data Science, AI and Dataiku with Rachel K...

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Does Home Field Advantage in the World Series Even Matter

Aug 18, 2023 Troy Schuh | interworks.com

During the summer between 6th and 7th grade, my best friend Paul and I walked to the Piggly Wiggly across from the street from my house, and we each impulse purchased our first pack of baseball trading cards. I was immediately hooked! Many more pa...

Data,baseball,hometeam,worldseries

Using Calculated Fields to Work With Strings in Tableau

Aug 17, 2023 Adam Sultanov | www.thedataschool.co.uk

There are a ton of functions in Tableau for working with strings in calculated fields. This is a list of all the functions you might want to use, with brief descriptions for each and some examples to make things clear.

Data,consulting,PersonalDevelopment,Presenting

Transitioning from Clinician to Consultant - Part I Communication

Aug 17, 2023 Samantha Fitzsimmons | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When transitioning from the healthcare industry to data consulting, there are many opportunities to identify similarities between clinical work and consulting. Healthcare professionals spend a considerable amount of time developing specialized ski...

causality,dowhy,data-science,root-cause-analysis

Simple Dashboard Interactivity - Filter Action

Aug 17, 2023 Francisco Rei | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Sometimes the most simple techniques can make a dashboard cooler! This blog is to show how you can make an interactive dashboard in a few steps

Data,consulting,PersonalDevelopment,Presenting

How to go from 0 to a Data School Application Dashboard in 40 days

Aug 17, 2023 Lisa Hitch | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This article is about my 40 days from when I first learned about the Data School to submitting my initial application dashboard, including my resources.

Data,consulting,PersonalDevelopment,Presenting

Filtering Basics Dimensions vs Measures

Aug 17, 2023 Charles Yi | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Filtering is a powerful tool in Tableau and most users will have probably used it to slice and dice their data. But, did you know that Tableau handles dimension and measure filters differently? Today, we’ll take a look at the basic anatomy of filt...

Data,consulting,PersonalDevelopment,Presenting

Changing Table Headers in Tableau

Aug 17, 2023 Sakif Chowdhury | www.thedataschool.co.uk

While creating our charts in Tableau, we can quickly begin to create complex calculations that show up in our Table headers. There is a way to hide these calculations from the header and replace them with a more reasonable header.

Data,consulting,PersonalDevelopment,Presenting

Alteryx Union Tool

Aug 17, 2023 Tabitha Diaz | www.thedataschool.co.uk

If you’ve checked out my blog post on the Join Tool in Alteryx, you’ll be pleased to find out that the Union Tool combines data in the same way as most other applications with a few more options.

Data,consulting,PersonalDevelopment,Presenting

Alteryx Challenge 341 Spatial

Aug 17, 2023 Sakif Chowdhury | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This challenge requires us to convert a table about stops on a marathon route onto a map. We need one map with each individual point on the marathon and another with a line representing the path. The data includes the exact location of each stop i...

Data,consulting,PersonalDevelopment,Presenting

Allchains Zweite Chance

Aug 17, 2023 Tobias Fitschen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Hi! Die DSDE 5 Kohorte ist in Woche sieben, aber Woche sechs steht noch einmal im Rampenlicht für einen Tag. Letzte Woche hatten wir das erste interne Kundenprojekt in Form des Fahrradverkäufers Allchains. Während der Präsentation konnte die erfol...

Data,consulting,PersonalDevelopment,Presenting

How To Be a Great Presenter

Aug 17, 2023 Robby White | interworks.com

I’ve been with InterWorks for almost a year now. It’s interesting being surrounded by a team of expert consultants. There is quite an immeasurable collection of shared IT and business intelligence experiences represented throughout our organizatio...

Data,consulting,PersonalDevelopment,Presenting

Using Gestalt Principles for your Data Visualizations

Aug 16, 2023 Sid Saythongphet | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In creating data visualizations, our main goals are to help the viewer see, understand, and make better decisions about the data presented. In doing so, we can take into consideration certain elements such as pre-attentive attributes, data ink rat...

Data,consulting,PersonalDevelopment,Presenting

Preattentive Attributes and Gestalt Principles

Aug 16, 2023 Adam Sultanov | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Part of our job as Data Analysts and Tableau experts is to reveal insights in data by displaying it visually. Creating effective charts and dashboards means balancing density of information with the principles of visual design. Luckily, those who ...

Data,consulting,PersonalDevelopment,Presenting

Multirank on Tableau

Aug 16, 2023 Sabrina Vazquez | www.thedataschool.co.uk

How to rank based off 2 different measures on Tableau.

Data,consulting,PersonalDevelopment,Presenting

Five Things I Learned As a Project Manager

Aug 16, 2023 Tabitha Diaz | www.thedataschool.co.uk

During your time at the Data School each data schooler must project manage at least one project during the 4 month training. When I first found out about this I was one terrified and two had no idea how spending time as a PM would help my work as ...

Data,consulting,PersonalDevelopment,Presenting

Data and Information is NOT the same

Aug 16, 2023 Lisa Hitch | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Data and information is not the same! Data is the foundation for information. Without data, we cannot have information. But data can exist by itself in a more unstructured way without context. When we put it into context we create information.

Data,consulting,PersonalDevelopment,Presenting

Alteryx Join Tool

Aug 16, 2023 Tabitha Diaz | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Before breaking down the Join Tool within the context of Alteryx, it is important to recognize that the joins do not work in the same way as joins in SQL.

Data,consulting,PersonalDevelopment,Presenting

Build a Homepage for Your Tableau Dashboards

Aug 16, 2023 Ollie Linley | onenumber.biz

Navigating around the dashboards you’ve built can be difficult. How do you build a good homepage? How can you easily toggle from one dashboard to the next without it feeling clunky? Is it even possible for Tableau dashboards to feel easy to navigate?

Design,TableauDashboards

Understanding Micro-Partitions and Clustering in Snowflake

Aug 16, 2023 Jason Hoehn | interworks.com

There are several features in Snowflake that contribute to your environment’s performance and scalability. Two of the most important in my experience have been micro-partitions and clustering. In short, micro-partitions are the fundamental storage...

Data,clustering,micro-partitions,Snowflake

An 8-Chart Guide to Dashed Lines in Tableau

Aug 15, 2023 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

In this tip learn when to use of dashed lines. Through this video, I’ll walk you through 8 distinct examples, demonstrating the effectiveness and clarity that dashed lines can bring to your data representation:Line Chart with Dashed Elements: Unde...

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Whats the Difference Between Measures and Dimensions

Aug 15, 2023 Charles Yi | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tableau categorizes fields by whether they are measures or dimensions OR discrete or continuous. Understanding the difference between these categories can help you build more effectively in Tableau.

Data,consulting,PersonalDevelopment,Presenting

Was ich von Nebeneinander-Containern halte Abstand.

Aug 15, 2023 Tanya Fischer | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Einer der großen Pluspunkte von Tableau ist sicherlich das schnelle Erstellen von Visualisierungen und Dashboards per Drag & Drop. Einfach schnell drei Arbeitsblätter auf ein Dashboard ziehen, den Dashboardtitel anzeigen lassen und schon haben...

Dashboards,Storytelling,TipsTricks,UserExperience

How Project Management is Similar to Patient Care

Aug 15, 2023 Samantha Fitzsimmons | www.thedataschool.co.uk

As a former healthcare professional who has transitioned to data, I have frequently encountered unfamiliar terminology. Associating new vocabulary to an existing knowledge base has been a helpful strategy to encode new information. Terms that will...

Data,consulting,PersonalDevelopment,Presenting

Data Visualization Best Practices for Creating Effective Charts

Aug 15, 2023 Erin Potter | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In the world of data-driven decision-making, effective data visualization plays a pivotal role. To draw meaningful insights from raw data, we need to do more than just drag and drop data points onto a chart. Simultaneously, it’s crucial to avoid o...

Data,consulting,PersonalDevelopment,Presenting

DSNY5-Week 1 Data Joining and All Types of Join

Aug 15, 2023 Le Luu | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Data joining is a technique which helps to combine 2 or more tables/ datasets together based on the common field (join key) in order to get the fields that the user wants. In the first week of DSNY 5, I learned a new type of join that I haven’t le...

Dashboards,Storytelling,TipsTricks,UserExperience

Allchains unser erstes internes Kundenprojekt

Aug 15, 2023 Tobias Fitschen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Die Zeit fliegt! Wir sind mittlerweile in Woche sechs angekommen mit der neuen Kohorte DSDE 5 und die Windrichtung dreht sich. Die letzten Wochen bestanden aus Trainings zu unseren Werkzeugen Alteryx und Tableau. Ab und zu eine Präsentation oder a...

Dashboards,Storytelling,TipsTricks,UserExperience

Transitioning from the Military to Corporate Data Analytics Why I Chose ...

Aug 14, 2023 Charles Yi | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Are you a current or former military member looking to transition into data analytics? Be sure to consider the Data School to jumpstart your career!

The beauty of data cleaning tools

Aug 14, 2023 Jules Claeys | www.thedataschool.co.uk

It’s been an extremely exciting first week as part of the Data School. We got to practice what we have learned about data cleaning using Tableau prep, going through a series of exercises with the help of some more experienced Data schoolers.

Tableau Data Model - 3rd Week at DSDE

Aug 14, 2023 Ali Fawwaz | www.thedataschool.co.uk

If you are working on data with multiple tables, the first thing that would come to your mind is connecting the tables together. Tableau Desktop offers different ways to join your tables and they are:

Scaffolding in Tableau

Aug 14, 2023 Charles Yi | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Scaffolding is a technique used to artificially create a data structure to aid in analysis and visualization. Depending on one’s needs, this could mean inserting rows into an existing dataset or creating an entirely new dataset to be joined with t...

Reflecting on LWTDSL

Aug 14, 2023 Michael Bellamy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The Data School New York recently hosted Learn What The Data School Learns (LWTDSL) which is a series of free training sessions for the public. These sessions are geared towards allowing anyone to learn an aspect of what is taught at The Data Scho...

Introduction to the world of REGEX

Aug 14, 2023 Afnan Foyez | www.thedataschool.co.uk

What is Regex?Regex is short for Regular Expressions, it is a powerful and standardized pattern matching language which is used to search manipulate and validate text. It is the brain child of Stephen Kleene, an American mathematician. Regex allow...

How to Set-up Tableau Desktop Public Version

Aug 14, 2023 Jessica Kwan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Working at the Data School, I am lucky enough that the company provides me with a license to Tableau Desktop. However, prior to that, I was using Tableau Desktop, the Public Version.

How To Join Tables with No Common Fields in Tableau Prep

Aug 14, 2023 Erin Potter | www.thedataschool.co.uk

While prepping your data in Tableau Prep, you’ll likely find yourself needing to combine different data sets to create a more comprehensive and consistent data set. This frequently happens through joins. Joins allow you to combine rows from two or...

Enhancing Tableau Visualizations with Wireframing Excalidraw

Aug 14, 2023 Michael Bellamy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Early on in our Tableau training, we were introduced to the concept of wireframing, a technique that lays the foundation for your final visualization. Our coach has nicknamed it Paper Tableau, I immediately thought of Paper Mario. This is a versio...

Hover to Scroll to the Selection in the Bar Chart

Aug 14, 2023 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

 Recently at work, I was redesigning an old dashboard that was showing actuals to projections at a county level. The original version was just a county map. To further explore the data, I built a bar chart of the counties and it was th...

How-To,Tableau

Building Cascading Filters in Retool

Aug 14, 2023 | andredevries.dev

Cascading filtering is a technique that enables users to interactively narrow down data based on multiple selection criteria. In combination with the new table component they can be easily implemented, offering a seamless experience when creating ...

What Can Help You Get to The Data School

Aug 13, 2023 Jaroslav Tomcala | www.thedataschool.co.uk

It’s a question that undoubtedly crosses the minds of those aspiring to work at The Data School. Allow me to offer some insights that could light your path on this exciting journey.

Tableau Prep Builder Starting Introductory Challenge 2023 Week 1

Aug 13, 2023 Nitesh Shrestha | www.thedataschool.co.uk

To master the data preparation process in Tableau Prep Builder we can explore different functions and practice regularly. One of the best ways to excel in this tool is to complete data prep challenges. Tableau Prep Challenge offers a series of exe...

My Way to Data Analysis Tableau Desktop - 2nd Week at DSDE

Aug 13, 2023 Ali Fawwaz | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Here we come to the second week at the data school. It was the Tableau  week and it is the time for Tableau Desktop. There is so much to learn about tableau and as we learned more about it I felt like I did not know anything before. We learned a l...

DSNY5-Week1 Traditional Analytics vs Modern Analytics

Aug 13, 2023 Le Luu | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In the first week at The Data School, I learned about the Modern Analytics Architecture. But before digging into the architect of modern analytics today. Let’s figure out the meaning of Analytics Architecture.

Tableau Reference Line

Aug 12, 2023 Nitesh Shrestha | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Reference lines are visual elements that can be added to visualization and provides useful context and comparison of information to the users. In this blog post, we’ll explore the process of incorporating reference lines into our charts, enhancing...

Tableau Building Total and Subtotal using Analytics

Aug 12, 2023 Nitesh Shrestha | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When constructing standard tables within Tableau, incorporating totals and subtotals into the display can occasionally be a challenge. To address this, we can seamlessly integrate these totals and subtotals into our table by leveraging the drag-an...

Table Calculation First and Last

Aug 12, 2023 Nitesh Shrestha | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In Tableau, table calculations are used to calculate the values and fields within a view. In other words, table calculations depend on the data present in the worksheet’s view for their computations. In this blog, I will discuss two important tabl...