Celebrating 5 Years of Playfair with 5 Sneak Previews

Jul 31, 2023 Ryan Sleeper | playfairdata.com

Playfair+ members (and potential members) – Thank you for your support of our premier visual analytics eLearning platform. Five years…The post Celebrating 5 Years of Playfair+ with 5 Sneak Previews appeared first on Playfair Data.

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Data Governance Literacy Guest Post from Laura Madsen

Jul 31, 2023 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

 This is a guest blog post from Laura Madsen. Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Laura is the CEO of Moxy Analytics, a company she leads alongside her business partner, Serena Roberts. Laura is the author of numerous books related to dat...

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Tableau Apply Measure Filter

Jul 30, 2023 Nitesh Shrestha | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In Tableau, Measures represent numerical fields that permit data filtering using various aggregations, such as sum, average, median, max, min, and more. These filters can be utilized on the filter shelves, providing choices like ‘Range of Values’,...

Tableau Apply Dimension Filters

Jul 30, 2023 Nitesh Shrestha | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In Tableau, Dimensions represent categorical or discrete fields. We utilize dimension filters when we want to narrow down the view within a workbook based on specific conditions related to these Dimensions. Although dimension filters are low-level...

World Happiness Report Dashboard Week Day 5

Jul 28, 2023 Shreya Arya | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today is the last day of Dashboard Week (and also our last day of training!) Our final challange was to create a dashboard using the World Happiness Report Dataset.

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The Happy American Dream

Jul 28, 2023 Muhammad Choudhury | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today was the final day of dashboard week. The topic was based on the world happines report and I decided to take the opportunity to compare the two americas, Canada and the USA.

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2023,DrillDown,DrillUp,ParameterActions,ScatterPlot,SingleSheet,Week30

Tableau Date Functions Testing for Future Dates

Jul 28, 2023 John Power | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Date functions are some of the most useful and frequently used in Tableau. However, there are times when we want to see the outcome of a date (usually in the future) that is not within our data set.

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2023,DrillDown,DrillUp,ParameterActions,ScatterPlot,SingleSheet,Week30

Max and Min Functions on a String in Tableau How does it work

Jul 28, 2023 Jessica Kwan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Earlier on in the week, I was shadowing an enablement session on Introduction to Calculated Fields in Tableau and someone asked a great question about two specific string functions: MAX and MIN.

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2023,DrillDown,DrillUp,ParameterActions,ScatterPlot,SingleSheet,Week30

How to Change Your Alteryx.com Username

Jul 28, 2023 Jessica Kwan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Do you remember the days of AIM? (For those that are too young, I am talking about AOL Instant Messenger.  Way before the days of Facebook messenger and unlimited texting plans.)

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2023,DrillDown,DrillUp,ParameterActions,ScatterPlot,SingleSheet,Week30

Dynamic Title for Singular Plural

Jul 28, 2023 John Power | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In Tableau it is always good practice to include a title so viewers and users are clear on what a visualization is representing. Below we have a treemap showing the Sales by sub-category for different regions. We also have a filter to enable Sales...

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Dashboard Week - Day 5 - World Happiness Report

Jul 28, 2023 Amelia Holland | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Todays the final day of dashboard week which means its the end of training! I have learnt so much in these last four months and it is going to feel strange not spending all day everyday in a room with the same 7 people.

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Dashboard Week Day 5 - World Happiness

Jul 28, 2023 Lorenz Nacilla | www.thedataschool.co.uk

It is now DS39’s training finale, of which we were tasked with creating a dashboard on World Happiness. We only had the morning, but since the data was clean there was no data prep required. The data structure was fairly straightforward since the ...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2023,DrillDown,DrillUp,ParameterActions,ScatterPlot,SingleSheet,Week30

Dashboard Week Day 5 Timeline

Jul 28, 2023 Reshika Chilakapati | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today was a simple task, similar to Makeover Monday. We were required the use the World Happiness Report dataset and create a dashboard in Tableau, no data prep was needed so I just got stuck into the data!

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Dashboard Week Day 5

Jul 28, 2023 George Ledger | www.thedataschool.co.uk

The final day of dashboard week and that means the final day of training too!

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DS39 Dashboard Week Day 5 World Happiness

Jul 28, 2023 Jenny Martin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

We’ve decided to be kind on DS39’s final day of dashboard week, which is also their final day in training! It’s a bittersweet day, so let’s focus on the happy times. No data prep will be required today, so they can purely focus on creating a well ...

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Continuous Line Chart Removing that unwanted line

Jul 28, 2023 John Power | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In the pictured line chart, I needed the Date field to be continuous so that I could add a Set Action for the user to select a range of Dates - (see step by step guide on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScZrHKq-vIs).

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Alumni Spotlight Naledi Hollbruegge

Jul 28, 2023 Mel Niere | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Learn more about Naledi’s experience, from the time she applied to The Data School, to her career as a Data Analytics and Visualisation Consultant. Naledi was part of Cohort 3 of The Data School London, which took place from May 2016 to March 2018.

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3 More Ways to Make Lovely Line Graphs in Tableau

Jul 28, 2023 Alyssa Huff | playfairdata.com

Line graphs are one of the most widely used visualizations on dashboards today – it’s hard to beat a line…The post 3 More Ways to Make Lovely Line Graphs in Tableau appeared first on Playfair Data.

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DataPlusMusic visualizes the Diamond Albums

Jul 28, 2023 Sean Miller | www.hipstervizninja.com

It is with great pleasure and excitement to be joining forcees with @KaylaMeetsData for this month’s #DataPlusMusic project!The post #DataPlusMusic visualizes the Diamond Albums appeared first on HipsterVizNinja.

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Understanding the Tools The Find Replace Tool in Alteryx

Jul 27, 2023 Jessica Kwan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Overview

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Teaching others how to use Alteryx and Tableau.

Jul 27, 2023 Toby Horne | www.thedataschool.co.uk

At the time of writing this blog, I am currently preparing for my upcoming ‘Learn what the Data School learns’ session. ‘Learn what the Data School learns’ is an opportunity for myself and my colleagues to help others use Tableau and Alteryx, teac...

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Power Bi - Make it as easy as Tableau

Jul 27, 2023 Muhammad Choudhury | www.thedataschool.co.uk

During day 4 of Dashboard Week, we used Power Bi to create a Viz on the Eurovision Song Contest.

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Power BI Eurovision Dashboard Week Day 4

Jul 27, 2023 Shreya Arya | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today was Day 4 of Dashboard Week. Our challenge for today was to produce an explanatory dashboard about the Eurovision contest in Power BI, and we could only use PowerQuery for any data prep…

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Dashboard Week Day 4 Timeline

Jul 27, 2023 Reshika Chilakapati | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today, we were required to use PowerBi to analyze Eurovision data! Unfortunately, I had no clue what Eurovision was and have never watched it in my life. So today involved conducting a lot of research on my end and trying to pull a good story toge...

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Dashboard Week - Day 4 - Eurovision

Jul 27, 2023 Amelia Holland | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Todays task was to create a Eurovision Dashboard on Power BI and all data prep had to be done in Power Query.

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Dashboard Week Day 4

Jul 27, 2023 George Ledger | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today’s dashboarding task was using Power BI as our tool rather than our more comfortable Tableau. As I knew my limitations with Power BI already this put me in a good position to be smart with my scoping.

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DS39 Dashboard Week Day 4 Eurovision

Jul 27, 2023 Jenny Martin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

We’re taking a step away from Tableau and Alteryx today and focusing on Power BI. DS39 won’t have had as much training in Power BI, but hopefully they can transfer their data skills into this tool.

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Can you build a dynamic drill down scatterplot in one view

Jul 27, 2023 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

Retro month continues, with Kyle setting this challenge to recreate Andy Kriebel’s WOW challenge from 2017. A lot has moved on with the product since 2017 and this is a great example of how it can be simplified. I completed the original challenge ...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2023,DrillDown,DrillUp,ParameterActions,ScatterPlot,SingleSheet,Week30

What is a Parameter

Jul 26, 2023 Asha Daniels | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When I first picked up Tableau, its safe to say I had no clue what a parameter was. I’d use them if I happened to stumble onto a blog post I liked but I didn’t really understand their purpose or when they’d come in handy. A couple of weeks of trai...

Advanced,Dashboards,TechnicalFeatures,TipsTricks

Tableau Apply Data Source Filters

Jul 26, 2023 Nitesh Shrestha | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Data source filters allow filtering data directly from the data source either from the live connection or extract. Data Source filters allow you to specify criteria or conditions that restrict the data included in the published workbook. By applyi...

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NBA Player Heights API Dashboard Week Day 3

Jul 26, 2023 Shreya Arya | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today was Day 3 of Dashboard Week - our challenge for today was to use the balldontlie API to get the data for our visualisation. However, today didn’t go as expected…

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Dashboard Week Day 3 Timeline

Jul 26, 2023 Reshika Chilakapati | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today we were required to use BallDon’tLie API to extract NBA data and visualize within Tableau. This required the use of Alteryx which is not my strongest skillset but this challenge has been a big lesson to me in terms of rearranging my plans! H...

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Dashboard Week Day 3 - NBA API

Jul 26, 2023 George Ledger | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today’s Dashboard Week Project was an interesting one….

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Dashboard Week Day 3 - NBA

Jul 26, 2023 Lorenz Nacilla | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For day 3 of dashboard week, we were tasked with using an NBA API and making a dashboard from the data we gather from it.

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Dashboard Week Day 3

Jul 26, 2023 Tom Gould | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today’s task centred around using the balldontlie API which contained extensive amounts of data on the NBA, as a fan of sports analytics I was excited!

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Dashboard Day 2 - IMDb Crime Movies

Jul 26, 2023 Muhammad Choudhury | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day 2 of Dashboard Week was based on the entire IMDb dataset. It consisted of every show/movie, directors and actors listed on the website.

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DS39 Dashboard Week Day 3 NBA API

Jul 26, 2023 Jenny Martin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

It’s day 2 and time to shift the focus a little more towards the data prep side of things. They’ll be working with NBA data from the balldontile API. There’s a lot of data to choose from so they’ll need to be selective and only pull data that will...

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Create Your Own Pixel Map to Use in Tableau

Jul 26, 2023 Afnan Foyez | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this blog, we will explore how you can create a pixel map which we can use in Tableau.

TableauCalculations

APIs - The Macro Conveyor Belt

Jul 26, 2023 Muhammad Choudhury | www.thedataschool.co.uk

APIs can be daunting, espicially as you need to use  iterative macros for a lot of them. This additional step makes people generally try to avoid it.

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Excel Text to Columns in Tableau SPLIT Function

Jul 26, 2023 Ollie Linley | onenumber.biz

In Excel, we can use Text to Columns to split a string. But what about in Tableau?

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Multiple Values and Wildcard Match Tableau Filters

Jul 26, 2023 Marc Reid | datavis.blog

Have you ever wanted to filter a Tableau dashboard to a list of values that you can copy & paste from a spreadsheet or other source? This is actually possible without any hacks using a Multiple Values (custom list) filter. This short blog post...

Filters,Tableau

The Big Thaw Exploring the Disappearing Antarctic Sea Ice

Jul 25, 2023 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

For week 30, we revisited a topic from 2018 week 15 - Arctic sea ice extent. During watch me viz, I focused on rebuilding:Visualizations from chapter 12 of the Makeover Monday book that showed how to add context to visualizationsSeveral of the viz...

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18 Ways to Create Bar Charts in Tableau

Jul 25, 2023 VizWiz (noreply@blogger.com) | www.vizwiz.com

In this comprehensive Tableau tutorial, I will explore 18 different ways to create bar charts using Tableau. This video is inspired by Rosa Mariana de Leon-Escribano, my colleague at The Information Lab France.In this tutorial, I will use various ...

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The Sharpest Tooltip in the Shed

Jul 25, 2023 Vivian Ng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

(Originally posted on my own blog here, on January 11, 2023.)

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The Alteryx Weekly Challenges

Jul 25, 2023 Matthias Albert | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Since we got introduced to Alteryx today, I thought I might as well try out another one of these weekly happenings in the Data Analyst community. This one is called the Alteryx Weekly Challenge. The idea is simple. You are presented with a data so...

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